CURATOR
Farhan Helmy
Co-founder and CEO, boxcompute.ai · Former Solutions Architect, AWS
A software engineer who builds AI agents and automation for businesses, and co-founded boxcompute.ai, which gives AI agents secure cloud computers to work on.
About Farhan
Farhan started as a developer in Cyberjaya, then joined AWS, first as an intern and then as a solutions architect. He went on to engineering roles at ServiceRocket, SEEK, Bloomthis (where he led the software team), iPiD and Valiance Health, where he worked remotely on AI agents for a US health company.
In 2026 he co-founded boxcompute.ai, where he is CEO. Alongside it he builds AI agents, automation and full-stack products for businesses as a consultant, and he has made open-source and community projects, including a directory of prayer rooms in malls and Sidegent, which teaches people to build AI agents by doing. He is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
Practices from our conversation with Farhan
Leetsoul wrote these practices after talking with Farhan, who did not write, review or endorse them.
Your first week embedded with a client that wants to use AI
Listening & empathy
Asking an owner who counts every dollar to pay for safer releases
Office & workplace
A director wants an AI system to run the whole company
Copywriting & clarity
Two weeks after handover, the team barely uses the tool you built
Office & workplace
Eight leads came in, and you have time for three calls
Outreach & relationships
Deciding which kind of post to keep after four weeks of posting
Positioning & persuasion
Your cofounder wants another month of building before any demo
Conflict & negotiation
Background
- Co-founder and CEO, boxcompute.ai2026 to present
- Software Engineer, Valiance Health2025 to 2026
- Software Engineer, iPiD2025
- Lead Software Engineer, Bloomthis2024 to 2025
- Software Engineer, SEEK2023 to 2024
- Software Engineer, ServiceRocket2022 to 2023
- Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services2021 to 2022
- Junior Developer, object expression2020 to 2021
- Bachelor’s degree, systems and networking, Universiti Tenaga Nasional2018 to 2021
- Diploma, electrical and electronics engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA2015 to 2017
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