About
The fuller story
A software engineer, yes — but really a curious generalist who keeps wandering into new domains and building things there.
- Based in
- Bengaluru, India
- By trade
- Backend / Identity Engineer
- By nature
- Curious generalist & maker
- Superpower
- Learning new domains with AI
- Off the clock
- Travel · Photography · Astrophysics · Agri-tech
- Currently
- Building a hydroponic vertical farm
I'm Aayush Lal Roy — a software engineer, but that's only the first line of the story. My real defining trait is that I'm a generalist: I get obsessed with a domain I know nothing about, use AI to learn it fast, and then actually build something that works.
Golden hour, salt in the air
West coast, India
Neon and rain, somewhere in Vietnam
Vietnam
CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
B.E., Computer Science & Engineering
2017 – 2021 · 8.09 CGPA
The many sides of me
What I spend my curiosity on
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 project