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About Me — Subhajit Bhar
Some people take the elevator. I took the stairs. And rewired the lights on the way up.
After many unfinished drafts, half-written notes, and more than a few “Is this even worth sharing?” thoughts… I’m finally writing this.
Not because I figured everything out. But because I’ve built enough to look back and forward with honesty. And maybe, just maybe, if you’re quietly building something too… you’ll find a piece of your story in mine.
This is the part where most intros tell you “who I am.”
But that’s not where this begins.
Let me take you back — not to childhood, but to something more recent. Something messier. Something real.
I was born and raised in India, and now live in Durham, UK, with my wife, building a quiet, sustainable life through freelancing and deep work.
This is the story of a physicist who became a freelance machine learning engineer and learned to build through self-doubt.
When the Plan Breaks
I was deep in research — lasers, entangled photons, cold atom clouds. It was the kind of work that required both absolute precision and a weird kind of patience. You’d wait hours for a measurement, only to find out the beam…
