About

I'm an engineering manager. I write about software, the people who build it, and what I'm still learning about doing the work well.

I learned to swim at forty. I'd been scared of water since I was a kid in Bangalore, and one weekend I decided I'd rather just be bad at it for a while. It turned out to be the most useful thing I know how to do. I'm doing it again now with Rust, slowly enough to actually understand it. I’m doing this with my motorcycle as well. Most of what I care about started this way, awkward and on purpose.

I spent the last four years at Asana, first managing the team behind the product's design system, then its consumption billing licensing platform team. Before that, I spent several years at Pivotal Labs, where I learned that software is something people build together, and that the practices that look like overhead are usually the real work. They keep a team ready instead of just busy.

I was born in Bangalore, spent years in Australia, and now live in the Bay Area with my partner Madhavi and our son Varun. I'm not really from one place anymore.

Right now I'm on a sabbatical, between things, more in flux than I've been in a long time. I swim most mornings and ride my motorcycle when I can. Both ground me. I'm also working out what AI means for people who care about craft, and what comes next. I’ll write from here, in the middle of this, while it's still unfamiliar.