A little bit about me.

I’m a tinkerer at heart. As a kid, I changed GTA files to see what would happen, made VBScript pranks, and once built both a mischievous batch-file worm and its antidote. The habit stayed: peel back an abstraction, understand the machinery, and rebuild enough of it to learn.

That curiosity became a career in software. For more than seven years, I built backend systems, data infrastructure, and products—most recently at Udaan and earlier as a founding engineer at Clarisights. These days, I’m back at first principles, building MastiDB, an on-disk OLAP database engine; dhol.dance, a playful tool for making rhythm intuitive; and Raft Bare Bones, an implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm in Go.

I’m also an inquisitive netizen with an insatiable appetite for learning, expanding my worldview, and finding the courage to suck at something new. Casual curiosities have a habit of turning into serious pursuits. Movement was one of them: years of contemporary dance, improvisation, acroyoga, and yoga have taught me that the body is intelligent, and that attention, play, and collaboration are practices in themselves.

Otherwise, I’m usually training, reading, wandering through the internet, collecting half-formed ideas, or following an interest far beyond the point of practical necessity.

I enjoy conversations about technology, art, philosophy, creative practice, and pretty much anything approached with genuine curiosity.