School
Technical Administrator
Nodwin Gaming · ContractSet up SSDs and competition systems at Mountain Dew Arena and ESL India—then quietly told players where to warm up: Basilisk.
Infrastructure → DistributionNot astraightline.
OriginNorth DelhiCuriosity
First buildBasilisk 10KCommunity
RecordCache 32Competition
EducationTrentCanada
BaseIndiaEnterprise
The first machine
he loved had
no road.
Cars were never transportation. They were engineering, theatre and freedom in one shape. Before there was a plan, there was a curious kid pulling at websites, software and anything that made a machine respond.
Some teachers saw potential.
Most thought he wouldn’t amount to much.
Basilisk2010s / Indian CS:GO
10,000members before
“community-led growth”
was a phrase.
“community-led growth”
was a phrase.
At fifteen, he built the server he wanted to play on.
Indian CS:GO servers were unreliable. He found someone to run the infrastructure, listed the servers, accepted Paytm before UPI existed, gave professional players free VIP access, and made skins available through the Steam community.
Make it reliable and fun for the pros. Everyone else will follow.
SERVER_01ONLINE
PRO_VIPCOMPLIMENTARY
COMMUNITY10K
PROFITENOUGH TO RUN
EXIT_REASONGOT BORED
32
Kills on Cache.
One of North India’s best teams.
One very loud room.
One of North India’s best teams.
One very loud room.
He knew how to compete.
More importantly, he learned when to stop.
Semi-professional CS:GO. An invitation to OpTic India’s tryouts. ESEA Advanced in Canada. Professional Valorant for ROG Academy. Controller player—Astra, Omen, Viper—and captain of Trent University’s team.
Going pro could have worked. But the career might last five years; the opportunity cost could last much longer.
Walking away felt like failure and relief.No wasted moves.
Every job added something to the operating system.
Gap year
Accounting Intern
Saluja Aman and CoLearned how businesses look beneath the branding: ledgers, discipline, and the numbers he still claims to be terrible at.
Commerce → FundamentalsGap year
Recruitment Assistant
Peoples Plus AdvisorWorked with people, patterns and judgment before leaving for Canada. OpTic India’s tryouts happened in the same chapter.
People → Pattern recognitionCanada
Team Member
Domino’sA first Canadian job. COVID took it away; India temporarily brought him home—and opened the door to play for ROG Academy.
Disruption → Opportunity2023
Sales Advisor
Best Buy CanadaC$1.7Min annual sales
Read people, translated complexity, and sold with trust. Named Best in Uniform for 2023.
Taste → Commercial proofCanada
Business Analyst
Capital OneThe final corporate chapter before returning to India—for family, for conviction, and for the economic future he saw ahead.
Analysis → Return
Identity unlocked
Confident in his ability.
Softer than he looks.
Stubborn enough to make it real.
Chirant Saluja.
Now, build the empire.
Five active expressions of the same instinct: old systems can be better.
Izara Gems
The B2B jewellery foundation. Built from scratch with a jeweller, fifty-fifty.
ActiveRareCut
Contemporary fine jewellery with an opinion—created because the market felt commoditized and tasteless.
ActiveHouse of Silver
A laboratory for experimentation, expressed through high-quality silver pieces.
ActiveCaratOS
Jewellery software that replaces karigar parchis and Windows-98-looking fossils with something genuinely modern.
ActiveSLX Digital
Digitizing businesses with AI, systems and marketing that moves more than vanity metrics.
BuildingHe has read the Gita, the Quran and the Old Testament.
One God.
Many roads.
Keep moving.
“Karm karo,
phal ki chinta
mat karo.” Do the work. Don’t obsess over the reward.
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Fifteen-year-old Chirant would look at all this and say:
“Damn, bro.
Good shit.”
The road ahead is longer.
That’s the point.