How I got here.

I started out in distributed systems. At Hortonworks I worked on Apache Ambari, the tool that installs and runs Hadoop clusters, and became a committer on the project. Our clusters ran into the thousands of nodes, so the job was mostly keeping operations sane at that scale.

Just before that, Flipkart, on the order-management services behind checkout. At peak they took half a million orders a day. That is where I learned to keep things running when they break in production.

I learned the most at Acceldata. I was employee number two, there before the product, when data observability was just an idea. Over four years we took it to $4M in ARR across eight Fortune 500 customers. I built the early architecture, then spent more time hiring, growing the team from two of us to twenty, and sitting in on sales calls. I hadn't sold anything before, and it changed how I build.

Most recently, Altimate AI, where I led engineering and set up the India team. We built AI agents for data work: ones that go and do a task across your tools and your warehouse, not chatbots that answer questions. Most of my time went into the agents' memory and into getting them to read SQL and warehouses correctly.

Now I build my own things and talk to people about what's next. I still write code most days.