About

I lead an engineering team in Berlin. The career underneath that runs through several kinds of software: a management system for a pharmaceutical business as a first real project, client work on a consulting engagement early on, and now large-scale attribution infrastructure — the layer of a product that has to be correct more than it has to be clever, where the honest answer is never fully available and the participants are not neutral.

These days I lead a team rather than write most of the code. I lead through process, not presence — if something only works because I’m in the room, it isn’t working, it’s being carried. The part I care most about is growing engineers, which has not gotten easier as the tooling improved. Some of that leading happens outside any reporting line: in 2022 I organised the company’s first hackathon in about a decade, end to end.

I'm building a consumer product whose design is mostly subtraction — the constraints are the product. Orka is an experiment in handing an agent the whole delivery loop rather than the coding step.

Both are also how I test what I think about AI-assisted engineering. I’d rather find out where coding agents break on my own projects than theorise about it — what that setup looks like.

• Deciding what to leave outin developmentNot public until it launches. The design principles are the part I can show.
• OrkaexperimentalThe code is private for now; the loop is exactly what it runs.

I grew up in India and live in Berlin. The city is the base rather than the backdrop — dancing, training, music, and a lot of people in an ordinary week — and the other half of living here is leaving it regularly. Somewhere around thirty countries so far, mostly in short bursts. Some of that is here.

Three Ruby gems published on RubyGems.org, 2014 to 2018. Roughly 21k downloads between them.

• geolocalise (opens in a new tab)2015 · last release 2018, v2.0.0 · soloResolves city, state, country, country code and postal code from coordinates or from a place string. ~7.8k downloads. Source (opens in a new tab)
• password_mate (opens in a new tab)2014 · v0.0.3 · teamBuilt with a team at a Ruby gem hackathon. Generates strong random passwords. ~9.2k downloads. Source (opens in a new tab)
• objectify_params (opens in a new tab)2014 · v0.0.1 · teamSame hackathon team. Turns request parameters into objects. ~3.9k downloads. Source (opens in a new tab)

The diagrams and the one map on this site are drawn from code, in its own type and colours.

The best way in is a short message. I am also on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) and GitHub (opens in a new tab).