I'm a hands-on technical architect and lifelong builder — currently Technical Architect at STGI, before that Principal Architect at NuFlights and Colligence. I care about correctness, freedom, and code that still makes sense in a decade.
I'm a dropout — yes, I am not a graduate. School ended in 2006 and the terminal taught me the rest, in public, for nearly two decades. I maintain awesome-programmer — the self-taught path, written down for the next person — and at Nitimis I taught people with zero tech background to start QA-automation careers, unpaid, on purpose. The commit history is my transcript.
I'm most at home building (micro)services in Rust and Python, but I've shipped across the whole stack —
browser-side (.js, .ts, .wasm), server-side (.rs, .py), and the infrastructure underneath
(Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes). Lately my obsession is symbolic reasoning: systems that derive
instead of merely predict.
I contribute to open source, reverse-engineer things for fun, and believe the best software is the kind you can read, port, and resurrect. Not an entrepreneur — I just want to build the things.
Nothing is owed. Build anyway.
Optimistic nihilism, to me, isn't despair — it's a license. If the universe hands out no inherent meaning, then meaning is something you author, on purpose, into the things you build. So I build: correct, small, honest systems that don't need the world to justify them.
Backend engineering for niche tech initiatives.
Scaling the airline-retailing platform I originally built at Reckonsys; rewrote the NDC adapter from Python to Rust (async-graphql, sea-orm).
First MVP of a distributed WebRTC media server in Rust; CI/CD and Pulumi infrastructure-as-code end to end.
A Rust microservice generating CycloneDX SBOMs from iOS/Android binaries — no source code required.
Non-profit ethos: RobotFramework QA services + teaching people with zero tech background to start QA-automation careers, unpaid.
Led engineering while staying ~70% hands-on. Django/GraphQL/React, cookiecutter scaffolding, open-sourced 'bigga'.
Architected the mobile-security platform from scratch; built the team from one to five; iOS/Android device farm.
CollabLayer, ReWire (iOS mindfulness app, 2012), DBS, DelightHQ, and friends.
Philosophy and philosophy of mind, socio-economic & political change, theoretical physics (enthusiast-grade, clearly labeled), Tamil literature — Bharathiyar and the Thirukkural, a loud aviary of conures and parakeets, PC gaming, evidence-based fitness, and tinkering with IoT & robotics with my kids.
