When I was 12, my piano ran on five disposable batteries. I couldn't afford to keep replacing them. So I took a dead set-top box adapter, cut the wires, matched the voltage and polarity, and soldered my own power supply.
Nobody taught me how. I just needed to play.
I didn't know it then, but I was solving my first infrastructure problem. I've been solving them ever since — whether it's a dusty keyboard, a crashed laptop, a company that needs a network, or a business that needs a brain.
— Vasai, Maharashtra. Age 12. The Adapter Kid.
Chapter 01 — The Path
From Vasai to Boston.
Every chapter built the next.
I didn't have a plan. I had a pattern: find something broken, figure out how it works, fix it, make it better.
2000 — VASAI, MAHARASHTRA
Where builders come from
Born in Vasai. Goan roots. An kid who ran the school funfair at 12 — sourced prizes, managed hardware, led a team of helpers who didn't realize they were being managed. Taught himself piano, harmonica, guitar, and vocals in an empty church. No lessons. No academy. Just hours of practice and a hacked power supply.
2018 — UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI
The ₹500 revelation
B.E. in IT — but the real education happened on the side. Installing operating systems, setting up routers, sharing internet connections in the village. All for free. Until the day he watched a technician charge a neighbor ₹500 for work Sijoy had been doing for nothing. That was the pricing revelation. He was 19. Within two years: 400+ laptop repairs. 1,000+ OS installs. 100+ SSD upgrades. A business born from a single moment of clarity.
2019 — JOSHO IT
The one-man IT department
It started with a ₹2,000 laptop repair for a startup founder. Then Sijoy built his website. Then became his entire IT department — LAN/WAN across 3 offices, CCTV surveillance, CRM automation with WhatsApp API processing 1,000+ leads/month. He literally fixed their AC too. CLC Abroad grew from 3 to 27 employees on infrastructure Sijoy built alone, for ₹20,000/month.
3 → 27 employees scaled
60% workload reduction
2020 — JOSHO MUSIC
The Vasaikar who went viral
Joined a band as a singer, not a pianist. "Vasaikar Masala" crossed 25 million views — a cultural moment for the Konkani community. When politics fractured the band, Sijoy started his own channel. Videos hit 2.3M and 1.6M views. Music distributed through CD Baby to every major platform. 42,000+ Instagram Reels created by fans using his music. All self-taught: vocals, production, engineering, distribution.
76.9K subscribers
25M+ views
2023 — NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MS Information Systems · 3.8 GPA
Took a loan and moved to Boston. Cloud computing, application engineering, database design — formalizing what he'd been doing in the field for years. But didn't stop building. Saw a technician charge $250 for a 2-hour camera job. Started doing it better. Word of mouth through the local business community spread. 50+ SMB clients across Boston and Maine — convenience stores, restaurants, retail shops. The backpack instinct, now in America.
NOW — THE CONVERGENCE
Everything connects
AI recommendation engines. Computer vision MIDI controllers. Autonomous overnight agents. Infrastructure for immigrant-owned businesses. The kid who soldered a power supply at 12 now builds systems that build businesses. The dual capability — writing a Python automation script and running Ethernet cable through a wall in the same afternoon — is the thing nobody else can do.
JoSho = John + Shobha
My dad drove an auto-rickshaw every day. My mom worked as a nurse. They didn't have the "right" connections or the "right" resources — but they gave me a house, a family, and a belief that education could change everything. I named my company after them, because everything I build is built on the foundation they gave me.
Chapter 05 — What's Next
Building the future of
intelligent systems.
I believe the best technology is invisible. It just works. Your cameras record, your POS processes, your WiFi connects, your website loads — and you never have to think about it. That's what I build. Small businesses deserve the same quality of IT infrastructure that big companies get, at a price that makes sense.
Growing JoSho IT into a full-service MSP for immigrant-owned businesses
Building AI-powered products at the intersection of music and software
Open to SWE, PM, or founding engineer roles with builders who ship
I've been the person who shows up with a backpack and fixes the problem since I was 19
The motorcycle is gone. The backpack instinct isn't.