Twinkle Savani
I lead engineering, build things of my own, and keep testing what agents can be trusted with.
Berlin, left often enough to miss it. Somewhere around thirty countries so far.
Currently
- an engineering team on large-scale attribution systems, where a wrong answer looks exactly like a right one
- which of my guardrails are mechanisms and which are only documentation the enforcement point
- a consumer product designed by subtraction, with agents as the delivery team in development
- Orka, an experiment in handing agents the whole loop rather than the coding step experimental
- about teams that are smaller than the org chart, and where the constraint may have moved working theory
- an outside engineer for a few early-stage teams at a time work with me
I grew up in India and live in Berlin. This is a collection, not a record — what I’ve chosen to keep from the work, the thinking, and the life around both.
From the collection
Threads →An instruction is a hope. A failing build is a fact.
Engineering. Leading backend and infrastructure work, and thinking about how much of an engineering manager’s job changes when the team’s output is no longer bounded by how fast people can type.
Building. The product I’m building is past the skeleton stage and moving story by story through the backlog. Most of the interesting decisions right now are product decisions, not technical ones.
Agents. Running Claude and Codex as an actual delivery team rather than as autocomplete: agents with defined roles, a written backlog, and CI that refuses work which breaks the architecture. Most of what I’m learning is about the guardrails, not the prompts.
Elsewhere. Reading about robotics and physical AI, and travelling when the calendar allows.
Where from
The other half of living here is leaving it.