Writing & case studies
Deep writeups of things I've built, plus notes from hackathons, summits, and meetups around Bangalore.
Case studies
Built, shipped, documentedPrepPilot: from sketch to paying users
→Building an AI interview-prep platform for Indian engineers end to end: the practice loop, the stack, and what the first paying user changed.
2026Flaky Test Autopsy: hunting the tests nobody trusts
→A Python CLI that statistically detects flaky tests, from the first prototype to a published PyPI package with a one-command interface.
APR 2026IDGuard: face recognition at scale with OpenCV
→Getting to 99.2% verification accuracy on an attendance system, and where the real difficulty in computer vision actually lives.
MAR 2026Writing a file explorer in C
→A complete file-system simulation with depth-first traversal and ASCII tree output, built to understand what happens underneath the abstractions.
Blog
Events & notesHow we won at Botathon 2026: the FileMind story
→Top 5 in the Apify track and Top 10 in the Superplane challenge, with a codebase investigation agent built under deadline.
APR 2026India's first Claude Code event: what I took away
→Honest conversations, real builders, and what struck me about how openly people talked about things not working.
APR 2026AWS Summit Bangalore: a deep dive into agentic AI
→The gap between a prototype agent and one you'd trust in production, and where cloud and AI are actually heading.
MAR 2026OpenAI Codex meetup Bengaluru: community, demos and ideas
→Walked in curious, left with a notebook full of things to think about. The RCA Incident Console showcase stood out.
