Shaurya Bahl is a Dubai-based fintech founder. He builds Simplify (gosimplify.com) — a B2B eSIM and gift card API — ARC, and Raly. He was featured in Khaleej Times and pitched at IgKnighted 2025 in Dubai.

Where is Shaurya Bahl based?

Shaurya Bahl is based in Dubai, UAE.

What does Shaurya Bahl build?

Shaurya Bahl builds Simplify (gosimplify.com) for B2B eSIM and gift card APIs, ARC (arc360.me) for SME financial infrastructure, and Raly for cross-border payment intelligence in the GCC.

What is Simplify by Shaurya Bahl?

Simplify (gosimplify.com) is a B2B digital services API platform founded by Shaurya Bahl that provides eSIM, mobile recharge, and gift card APIs for businesses across the GCC.

What is IgKnighted and how is Shaurya Bahl connected?

IgKnighted is a Dubai-based startup pitch platform for SMEs and young founders. Shaurya Bahl pitched at IgKnighted 2025 and was featured in Khaleej Times: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/dubai-new-pitching-arena-smes-young-founders-igknighted

Is Shaurya Bahl on LinkedIn?

Yes. Shaurya Bahl's LinkedIn is https://ae.linkedin.com/in/shaurya-bahl-61ab61381

2021: The Python Grind

Age 10, turning 11 in December. Still in Oman, still at ISGI, still building. But this year I levelled up. Scratch was cool, but I wanted more.

The Scratch Collection — Complete

By early 2021, I had built a solid collection of Scratch games. Platformers, quizzes, clicker games, little animations — I had made everything I could think of on the platform. I hit this point where I felt genuinely done with Scratch. Not in a bad way — I had just exhausted what it could do. Every new project felt like I was working within walls. I needed something bigger, something that could let me build real software, not just draggable block projects.

That feeling of outgrowing a tool is actually really important. It means you have learned enough to know what you are missing. And what I was missing was a real programming language.

Python Begins

So I started learning Python. This was through MindChamp still, plus YouTube crash courses that I would binge after school. The jump from Scratch to Python was massive. Suddenly there were no colourful blocks — just a blank text editor and a blinking cursor. Syntax errors everywhere. Indentation issues that made no sense. Forgetting colons at the end of if statements. Classic beginner struggles.

But I loved it. Python felt like the real thing. I could write scripts, automate stuff, build command-line games that actually ran in a terminal. The YouTube crash courses were clutch — I would find a tutorial, follow along, break the code, fix it, and then try to add my own twist. That cycle of watch-build-break-fix taught me more than any structured class could.

This was the beginning of what I now call the 3-year Python grind. From 2021 through to about 2023, Python was my main language. I was not fast at it, I was not great at it, but I was consistent. Every day after school, I would code for a bit. Some days it was 30 minutes, some days it was 2 hours. But I never stopped.

Life in Oman

Outside of coding, life was good. Oman was home and it was comfortable. School, friends, homework, coding — that was the routine. Palash, Ved, Mehal, Vivaan Gupta — we were all just kids doing kid things. Playing during breaks, hanging out after school. I had this side of me that was always tinkering with code on my laptop, and I do not think most of my friends fully got it back then. They supported it, though. Nobody made fun of me for spending my free time coding instead of playing. That matters more than people think.

The Bigger Picture

2021 was not flashy. There was no big milestone, no app launch, no viral moment. It was a grind year — the kind of year that does not look impressive from the outside but builds the foundation for everything that comes later. I was 10 years old, teaching myself Python through YouTube videos in Oman, and I had no idea where it would lead. But I kept going, and that is the part that mattered.