Twinkle Savani

I lead an engineering team, build things of my own, and keep a close eye on where software goes next.

I’m Twinkle Savani, an engineering manager in Berlin. I’ve spent my career building software and leading the people who build it — from a first system for a pharmaceutical business, through client engagements, to the large-scale attribution infrastructure I work on now. Alongside that I build independent products and spend much of my time working with AI coding agents to understand how software actually gets built now.

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.

Day jobEngineering manager in Berlin — leading a team on large-scale attribution systems
BuildingAn independent consumer product, in development — designed by subtraction
AgentsA delivery team of eight agent roles behind fifteen CI guardrails — how it runs
With othersA second opinion for a small number of early-stage teams — what that looks like

A lake at dusk under a heavy ceiling of cloud, with the lights of settlements along the far shore.

A person standing in a meadow with their back to the camera, looking across to a mountain range.

From the collection

Threads →

An instruction is a hope. A failing build is a fact.
from Running agents as a delivery teamPractice

A hand holding a dark mug, a snow-covered courtyard and apartment blocks behind it. — Berlin52.52° N 13.40° E

Now · August 2026

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.

from Running agents as a delivery teamdiagram, part

A system that mis-assigns credit returns a perfectly well-formed answer. There is no exception, no alert, no crash — just a number that is quietly incorrect.
from Attribution infrastructureEngineering

from Orkadiagram · experimental · private

A television tower lit at dusk, seen past the corner of a modern block. — Berlin52.52° N 13.40° E

The other half of living here is leaving it.
from BerlinLife

Threads

All 12 →

WorkBuilt, led, or run. Professional and independent, together on purpose.5 entries · latestRunning agents as a delivery team Field NotesConclusions, with how settled they are and what they follow from.2 entries · latestConstraints beat moderation LifePlaces, mostly. A slow archive rather than a feed.2 entries · latestRajkot to Berlin

Where from

Photographone natural portrait — the only image on the site that is of a personclipping

Six cities, two countries, somewhere around thirty more visited. How that happened ·About

I also give a small number of early-stage teams a second opinion —what that looks like.