Illustrated portrait of Abdul Rehman Humayun
Abdul Rehman Humayun
Builder · Operator · Teacher
Karachi, PK
Abdul Rehman Humayun · Tech & Ads Lead at Alt Academy

I build the whole
machine.

Product, payments, CRM, ads and the company behind them, for education and commerce businesses. Built in Karachi, used around the world.

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  • 9+ years building
  • 60,000+ learners · 101 countries
  • 5 UK companies set up
  • 3 ventures founded
Currently building
ExtremisOne WhatsApp inbox for your whole team.
ALT LMSAlt Academy's own learning platform.
Khuda Ki Basti schoolA free vocational program for women.
AI Builder Bootcamp12 weeks, live, building with AI.
Latest work
Alt Academy
The journey
12 stops · 2 startups · 1 mission
01 · Why I do this

Knowledge shouldn't be a luxury.

I've spent most of my career inside education, and one thing became impossible to ignore: good education in Pakistan is priced out of reach. A Levels are expensive, and the matric and intermediate system isn't getting better on its own.

I don't think that has to be permanent. Technology can make great teaching affordable, and practical skills can change a family's income within months. That belief connects everything I've built, from my first training institute to Alt Academy to the free vocational school I'm designing today.

We can do much more as a nation. I'd rather help build it than wait for it.

02 · Journey

The journey so far.

Two startups that didn't make it, five years building an edtech platform, and everything I learned along the way.

BS Computer Science University of the People · 2023 → now ACCP EE Aptech Pakistan · 2017–19 LLM Engineering: AI, LLMs & Agents Udemy · 2025
03 · Selected work

Things I've built, shipped and run.

For Alt Academy, for my own clients, and for clients through Backspace.

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Internal tools are shown with demo data.

From the archive: earlier sites for Alt Academy, Chem with Bilal, Twinkle & Co, BirthCandle, PICG and more.

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04 · What I build

One person, the whole stack.

Most businesses hire a developer, a marketer and a consultant, then spend months getting them to talk to each other. I connect all three.

10,091conversions in 30 days for one fashion brand on TikTok
$1.70cost per conversion
~38.7Mimpressions in the same 30 days

Brand name withheld.

05 · Ventures

Things I've started.

2017

Horizon Soft Systems

My first startup, a software house. Taught me that partnership matters as much as product.

Moved on
2020 – 2022

Techie Education

A tech institute in North Karachi. Closed after COVID. The lessons came with me.

Closed
2021 → now

Alt Academy

Founding team. Making world-class A-Level teaching affordable online.

Active
2026

Extremis

A shared WhatsApp inbox for teams. Our Shopify app for automatic order-status updates is in Shopify review.

In development
2026

Khuda Ki Basti Vocational School

A free program that takes women who've never been to school from their first letter to their first income, working with a Karachi NGO.

In design
2026

AI Builder Bootcamp

A 12-week live program teaching people to build real products with AI.

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06 · Now
  • Building Alt Academy's own learning platform
  • Building Extremis
  • Designing the Khuda Ki Basti vocational program
  • Consulting at Backspace
  • Studying for a BS in Computer Science at the University of the People
Off the clock
Workouts
Valorant
Tinkering with ESP32 and ArduinoA desk-buddy project is in progress. Coming soon.
07 · Contact

Let's build something.

Tell me what you're working on and I'll get back to you.

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