Looking for a partner in crime.

I work as a Cloud Automation Engineer (and Developer) for a Cloud Services company in Midtown Manhattan.

I am the eldest son of 4, with 2 brothers and a sister. I moved here from Pakistan 20 years back.

I am pretty religious in the practice and spiritual side, but not in a traditional desi image of a religious person's sense. "Moderate" in the spectrum of belief in the interpretation of religious jurisprudence.

I am a very silly and quirky person. I am also very quiet until you get me excited/interested/curious about something, then I go on for a while.

I can often be found, looking up something I am curious about, researching something random, experimenting with some wacky code/project/idea/algorithm/data/food/drinks, or making puns and writing song parodies.

I am a rather passionate person and you can find me rather fond of Science/Math, Logic, Tech, Linguistics, History, Evidence-based Policy, gaming, Casual Table Top gaming(especially D&D and Warhammer 40k), and all sorts of good quality fiction design and novels, manga, anime, and literature from several mediums and several cultures. 

I also really like thinking about complicated issues and reveling in their complexities and variables; getting into the nitty-gritty technical details and enjoying overcoming the barriers of correcting my misconceptions of those topics.

Curiosity fills me to the brim, causing me to thoroughly enjoy getting my biases getting crushed, information gaps filled, and my incorrect ideas being corrected (with proper logic and methodology, and without getting demeaned and dehumanized of course.)

I strive for balance and compromise in my relationships, be it between self, family, friends or causes/ambitions/career. Which is why you might find me upfront in presenting myself and assessment. I like to minimize damage caused by misunderstandings and rose-tinted non-realistic expectations.


Important Note:
I have not completed my degree, I jumped ship, and started freelancing, then got into a decent position. My continuation, including skipping steps to masters, will be done at my own pace. Even without it both my career and backup options as a Cloud/Data/Software engineer are pretty solid.


What I look for in a partner:
- Can enjoy sarcasm and satire, and potentially even partake in it, even if eventually.
- Someone who will continue their career/research/business/etc
- Someone who is religious and always seeks to improve their practice
- Someone who values close family relationships (if not their own due to circumstances, then at least mine)
- Someone who puts importance in the balance of relationships between self, family, friends and causes/ambitions/career
- Someone looking to grow themselves as a human being and a Muslim
- Someone willing to learn to love some interest of mine and help me learn to love some of their interests.
- Someone who has an open mind

Dealbreakers:
- Dislikes intellectual conversations.
- Puts importance to Social Status
- Someone who will respond negatively to my sciencey/techy side
- Someone who will respond negatively to living with my nerdy/quirky/silly side 
- Someone who will respond negatively to my religious side
- Someone who will respond negatively/stiffly to my very overly affectionate self (I hug a lot, and rub like a cat, current victims = family only)
- Someone who will respond negatively to me coding for practice/fun in my free time as a hobby and passion (after all obligations (self/work/family/etc))
- Someone who will respond negatively to me gaming or messing with game-code in my free time as a hobby and passion (after all obligations (self/work/family/etc))
- Someone who will respond negatively to me researching and data mining/analyzing for practice/fun in my free time as a hobby and passion (after all obligations (self/work/family/etc))
- Someone who will respond negatively to me doing science/math/etc courses for practice/fun in my free time as a hobby and passion (after all obligations (self/work/family/etc))
- Someone who will find it difficult to live with me not having a degree