The people building the map.

Born in Medellín, Colombia, in a humble home where nothing was given and everything was earned. In 2007 he arrived in Chile with eight dollars in his pocket, and already in love with the woman who would become his wife that same year. He did whatever paid: waiter, packer, English–Spanish translator, grocery seller, driver, building web pages and apps, while finishing his studies and fighting his immigration papers into order.

Nineteen years later: senior software architect and AI engineer with 14+ years shipping mission-critical systems for Banks, E-commerce platforms, Startups and other industries and even for Chile’s largest mining operations: banking, capital markets, e-commerce, gaming, robotics and AI platforms. An MBA, a degree in language and communication, an AWS certification, the Startup Chile ecosystem, and a published author: the illustrated light-manga trilogy Project A.A.A., sold on Amazon and Barnes & Noble worldwide.

Today, the eight dollars he landed with have multiplied a hundred thousand times over, earned deal by deal, in a second country, in a second language of code. CLZTR is the vehicle: bootstrapped with his own money, no outside investors, a real-time map where presence unlocks access, designed for 100 markets and 542 cities, heading to the App Store and Google Play in the final quarter of 2026.

Married to Jasmine Catherine since the year he arrived, and father of Catherine Marie: the two constants of the whole journey. He didn’t build alone, and he doesn’t build for himself: every line of code has a family behind it.

The idea didn’t come from a whiteboard. It came from Catherine Marie: kids’ events his family kept missing, or arriving late to, because what was happening in their own city was scattered across a dozen different sources. A father who builds mission-critical systems for banks couldn’t reliably find a children’s fair on time. The map of what’s happening didn’t exist.

So he’s building it. For her first, and then for every family, every friend group, every city that deserves to know what’s next. That’s why the doctrine says presence over content: the point was never the feed. The point was being there.

Born and raised in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, in a family where education, discipline and character came before everything. His father, Dr. Arshad Jamal, worked relentlessly to open doors his own life never had, and raised Zaid alongside four siblings who all became doctors and professors. The lesson of that house: resources are limited, opportunities are valuable, and you have a responsibility to make the most of both.

At 14, a computer stopped being a machine and became a place where imagination compiles: he taught himself AutoCAD sketching motorcycles, then wrote his first lines, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a tiny colour picker in 2014, and never stopped. A B.Tech in Machine Learning & Computing gave him the theory; real products taught him engineering. Along the way he helped build WTFPython, an open-source project developers around the world still learn from.

He met Luis through work, and built with him for more than four years before CLZTR existed. So when the idea came, he wasn’t betting on a pitch; he was betting on a person he had already learned to build with. In December 2025 he said yes. Since then he has built CLZTR’s Presence Check SDK, which turns a GPS coordinate into a trust signal that proves a real human is really there, and the rendering architecture that lets an entire living city fit on one phone screen without melting it.

“Don’t build a screen. Build the complete system behind the screen. A feature is not finished because the happy path works. Loading states, failures, retries, caching, offline and edge cases all have to make sense together. I don’t want software that merely looks finished. I want software that behaves finished.”

His cadence is deliberately short: ship, observe, learn, fix, improve, repeat. Quickly, without building carelessly.