What I'm doing now

Working on

At Saltmine, I'm deep in an AI-powered workspace recommendation engine — the kind of thing that looks at how teams actually use their space and suggests how they should configure it. Complex constraint satisfaction wrapped in a product layer that makes it feel simple.

Side project

Building this site with the Mithila design system — a design language inspired by 2,000-year-old Madhubani painting from Bihar. Every border, every motif, every color decision is intentional. It's the first time I've treated a personal site as a real design project.

Exploring

Spending time with Rust — not for production work yet, just to understand the ownership model more deeply. The mental model it enforces is worth understanding even if you never write Rust for money.

Also going deep on pgvector and the practical realities of building RAG systems that work in production, not just in demos.

Reading

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann — third time through. The partitioning chapter hits different when you've actually had to partition something.

The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th anniversary edition. It's aged better than most software books have any right to.

Not doing right now

Taking calls without a clear agenda. If you want to connect, send a message with context and I'll respond properly.