Engineer by trade,generalist by nature.
I build identity & authorization systems at scale — and I spend the rest of my curiosity on travel, photography, the cosmos, and bringing technology to the soil. My favourite trick is using AI to learn and build in domains I was never trained in.
The many sides of me
One curiosity, pointed in a lot of directions
I'm not just one thing. Here are the facets I keep coming back to — the same drive to learn and build, aimed at very different worlds.
Technology
My day job and my first love. I build identity & authorization microservices at scale — contract-first APIs, query-performance debugging, and a lot of AI-assisted engineering.
See the engineering sideTravel
From the cold desert of Spiti to the backwaters of the south, I travel to collect stories. Each trip is slowly becoming a short story — a travel blog in the making.
Where I've beenPhotography
I see in frames. I keep a dedicated photography feed where I post the way I read light, shape and stillness on the road.
My photography feedAstrophysics
A lifelong fascination with the cosmos — stars, constellations and orbits. It's the lens I keep coming back to, and the visual theme of this whole site.
Agri-Tech
I want to bring technology to the soil. I built a climate-controlled rig to grow saffron with an ESP32 and zero electronics background — next up is hydroponic vertical farming.
The saffron projectHow I think
A generalist who actually ships
My approach to just about everything — engineering included.
The loop
Get curious. Learn fast with AI. Build the thing. Verify it works. Repeat.
I don't believe you need formal training to build something real. I believe you need curiosity, a working feedback loop, and the honesty to keep testing until it works.
My unfair advantage is that I use AI as a tutor and a pair-programmer to cross into fields I know nothing about — and then I go and build the thing. Not a demo. Something that runs.
The clearest proof: I wanted to grow saffron, which needs a very specific climate. I had zero electronics or electrical background. So I learned — with AI at my side — to drive an ESP32, a piezoelectric humidifier and PWM dimming into a small climate-controlled environment. It worked. That loop — get curious, learn fast, build, verify — is how I approach everything, engineering included.
Travel
I travel to collect stories
Each of these places is becoming a short story — a travel blog is on the way. For now, here's the map.
15 places · short stories coming soon
Currently exploring
What has my curiosity right now
A living list — the things I'm actively learning and building this season.
Hydroponic vertical farming
Taking the saffron experiment further — designing a small vertical farm that grows food in water, not soil.
A travel short-story blog
Turning each trip into a proper short story. The writing is happening; the blog is coming.
AI-assisted everything
Pushing how far spec-driven, AI-paired workflows can take a single curious engineer across unfamiliar domains.