Notes
Writing
Long-form thoughts on engineering, product, and what it costs to ship.
Owning a consumer product end to end
What "solo founder" meant on Vivaahli: product, design, payments, PDF pipeline, and go-to-market. Lessons from shipping wedding-tech for Indian families.
Shipping AI agents as a product engineer
How I think about tool-calling, orchestration, and evals when building agent workflows in production. Not ML research. Product engineering that ships.
When the unit economics don't work
Why I shut down AniReco — an embeddings-powered anime recommender — and what I learned about pricing AI features before optimising the model.
Re-architecting checkout across seven microservices
How we moved Urban Company's multi-category checkout to a new money-flow stack with zero downtime — and what distributed systems lessons stuck.