I build and ship whole products.
Principal Architect in Bangalore, thirteen years in. I take products from idea to shipped — backend, web, mobile, and the AI bits — the whole thing, not just a slice. Deep backend and scalable systems are the foundation; I've built on Android, iOS, Rails and platform teams; and the last couple of years, AI and LLMs. If you need someone who'll actually build it and ship it, that's me.
What I'm for.
End-to-End Product Build
Zero to one — the whole product, not a slice. Backend, web, mobile. I have shipped on Android, iOS and Ruby on Rails as well as platforms, so I build the parts most people hand off, and I get it out the door.
Backend & Systems Architecture
The scalable, resilient backend a product actually needs — and a straight look at your architecture before it buckles. Where it breaks, what it costs, what to fix first. Drawn from a decade of keeping systems alive at 3 AM.
AI / LLM Integration
LLM features that survive real users, not just a demo — RAG, agents, structured output, provider-agnostic. A couple of years building this inside a real product, so I know where it breaks.
Fractional Architect
Senior architecture and product judgement, weekly — for teams that need the experience without the headcount.
Selected work.
The same method, everywhere.
Get the real numbers before opinions. Logs, splits, costs, traffic — the truth, not the story.
Map the system honestly. Constraints, failure modes, the parts that lie under load.
Ship the smallest thing that holds. No cathedral before the foundation is proven.
Instrument everything. If you cannot see it, you cannot trust it — or improve it.
Read last week, write next week. The plan adapts to the data, not the other way around.
Things I've built.
HyCrew
Live · iOSRace simulation and AI training intelligence for HYROX athletes — Apple Watch tracking, adaptive plans, race-day pacing. Built by an athlete who needed it.
Looplink
Live · iOSCalm, ad-free logic puzzles by Loop Games — Loop and Bridges today, Lights next. No ads, no tracking, no IAP nags. The deliberate opposite of HyCrew’s intensity.
Trace & Roar
BuildingA finger-tracing ABC game for the kid who hates writing. Ad-free, pay-once, built by a dad and tested on a real 4-year-old. In build, not yet shipped.
DXTR
AI · liveA private AI wealth desk on Telegram: eight specialist agents run in parallel — what to buy, what to sell, tax, FIRE, portfolio health, expenses — auto-routed and synthesised from live market data. Powered by Claude.
Latest field notes.
Father. Builder. Athlete.
I'm a backend engineer in Bangalore — thirteen years of it, and full-stack when a product needs it. I build the unglamorous things that have to hold up: payments, platforms, the stuff that breaks at 3 AM.
The last couple of years I've gone deep on AI and LLMs. And somewhere in there I went from 103 kg to racing HYROX. Strange mix — I think that's the point.
Got a product to build?
A full build, a backend that has to scale, AI features, or just a hard problem — tell me what you're making and I'll tell you straight whether I can help.