About

My fascination with computers started at 11, watching a group of friends crowded around a monochrome screen playing Prince of Persia. The graphics, the keyboard, the mouse: it looked like magic, and it pointed me in a direction I never left.

From GW-BASIC on MS-DOS to Windows 3.1, Q-Basic, dBASE, FoxPro, C, and Oracle, then HTML and the early internet in 1998, I kept chasing whatever felt closest to building something real. I dabbled in game design and 3D animation along the way (Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, 3DS Max), and during my engineering years I led small teams building conference-registration tools and department websites.

The career version of that arc: Yahoo!, Jabong, Flipkart (doubled ads revenue; Best People Manager 2018), Amazon (Recommendations and Personalization), and the founding team of what became Whatfix (2010, left after 13 months before product-market fit). Today I'm Senior Director of Engineering at Tekion, building AI developer productivity at scale, and the measurement framework that doesn't depend on AI lineage or surveys.

The throughline across all of it: I like building the thing that makes other people faster, then proving it actually worked. That's what ORBIT and CPI are. It's also what I was doing at 15, wiring up the school computer network so the office would stop losing paperwork. The tools got bigger; the itch didn't.

Away from the keyboard, I'm happiest with a plate of hot, spicy food in front of me, ideally a steaming bowl of home-style biryani, and curious about a place I haven't been to yet.

Bay Area · originally Bangalore.