I AM HASAN.

My journey began in Tripoli, Lebanon, a city often described as the poorest in the Mediterranean. Growing up within a minority group, I learned early what injustice feels like and what limitations it imposes. Those challenges also taught me that the only way out of inherited situations is to make your own door.

I taught myself English from Disney Channel, one word at a time, scribbling translations into notebooks. The language became a bridge to ideas I could not have accessed in Arabic alone, and later, the foundation of a translation career across humanitarian documentation at COSV, AI training data at Flitto, and a UN Women funded research report on women's leadership and civic participation.

From waiting tables at fourteen to bartending while juggling high school and university, I learned the value of work that does not announce itself. That experience taught me to take execution seriously, which became the foundation of nearly four years as a translator across COSV's humanitarian portfolio, a EUR 14 million operation spanning Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, where the legal and financial documentation that had to satisfy four European donors passed through me in both languages.

In 2025, those threads connected into a single piece of work: The Architect AI. The fictional concerns of Aria became the practical concerns of the product. The work is the same work. I was just learning what shape it took.