A founder profile lives or dies on signal-to-noise. The brief was 60+ verified links, three currently-read books, and a clear request: don't dilute her voice.
Source the story
Compiled the career arc from First Round Review, Crunchbase News, Engineering at Meta, UW–Madison alumni features, Foreign Policy Global Thinkers, Inside Outside Innovation, Mind the Product, Product School & the Eat Cook Joy founder profile.
Editorial architecture
Mapped the story into 8 chapters — Biography, Journey, Article, Videos, Podcasts, Reading, Ventures, Press & Links — each a tile on the landing page, each a section anchor.
Young-founder design system
Coral + teal + gold palette to signal a builder, not a legacy. Fraunces for personality. Animated conic-ring portrait medallion as the centerpiece.
Hand-coded build
Semantic HTML, mobile-first CSS, embedded YouTube players, embedded Transistor.fm podcast, structured data — zero frameworks, zero build step.
Print-ready PDF
Generated a single-file PDF biography with embedded clickable links — downloadable from the hero CTA, shareable anywhere.
Deploy & short link
Hosted on GitHub Pages, with a masked redirect at azizsaif.com/zainab — same convention as /tarkash & /drhadi.
