Thinker, builder, teacher and researcher.

I build systems.
I break things first.
I explain possibilities.
I overexplain, mostly.
I keep asking why.
I rarely have answers.

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What I do
What it's for

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What I do

I work where software, AI and human understanding meet. I build systems, explain difficult ideas and explore how technology can help us think, create and preserve knowledge.

What it's for

I have spent three decades in technology and I am still more interested in the questions than the answers.

What I work on, and why it matters to me

01 · What I do

Building AI systems

I design practical AI systems, agents and integrations that turn intent into working software.

What it's for

What I actually care about

Technology is rarely the hardest part. Understanding what people really need usually is.

02 · What I do

Designing software agents

I explore agents, tools, orchestration and new ways for software to act on behalf of people.

What it's for

The uncomfortable question

I do not want AI to replace people. I want it to remove the repetitive parts that stop people from doing meaningful work.

03 · What I do

Enterprise architecture

I design systems that connect products, platforms, data and teams.

What it's for

What experience taught me

Most systems become complicated because we keep adding things before understanding what already exists.

04 · What I do

Developer experience

I make tools, integrations and technical workflows easier for developers to understand and use.

What it's for

My test for good design

If an engineer needs a thirty-page guide to complete a basic task, the problem may not be the engineer.

05 · What I do

Teaching AI

I explain AI, agents and modern software to technical and non-technical audiences.

What it's for

Why I teach

Understanding is more satisfying than impressing.

06 · What I do

Knowledge systems

I build systems that organise, connect and retrieve knowledge.

What it's for

The less impressive truth

I collect ideas because memory is unreliable, not because I am exceptionally organised.

07 · What I do

Semantic AI

I explore how meaning, relationships and context can be represented for machines.

What it's for

What language means to me

Language is not merely communication. It is compressed culture.

08 · What I do

Tamil computing

I research ways to represent Tamil literature, commentary, morphology, history and interpretation for future AI systems.

What it's for

Why it matters

I do not want Tamil preserved only in archives and museums. I want it to participate in the future.

09 · What I do

Writing

I write about software, AI, systems, work and learning.

What it's for

The actual reason

I often write to discover what I think.

10 · What I do

Public speaking

I speak about technology, careers, AI and the future of software.

What it's for

Before every talk

I still worry before I speak. Experience does not always remove fear. Sometimes it teaches you how to move with it.

11 · What I do

Mentoring

I help engineers and young professionals navigate technology, careers and uncertainty.

What it's for

What I have seen

Confidence grows faster when someone believes in you before you believe in yourself.

12 · What I do

Product strategy

I help turn ambiguous possibilities into products, systems and practical experiments.

What it's for

What interests me

Most roadmaps answer questions people already know how to ask. I enjoy exploring the questions that have not become obvious yet.

13 · What I do

Practical AI

I focus on what can be built, tested and used — not only what can be demonstrated.

What it's for

My recurring belief

The gap between knowing and doing is where most opportunities hide.

14 · What I do

Building in public

I share experiments, lessons, prototypes and unfinished ideas.

What it's for

Why it is difficult

Sharing unfinished work is uncomfortable. That is often a sign that it is worth sharing.

15 · What I do

Digital knowledge

I build systems that help people retain, retrieve and extend what they know.

What it's for

My second brain

My second brain exists because my first one has too many tabs open.

What I do, and what it's for

Build
Understand
Teach
Simplify
Research
Preserve
Design
Clarify
Automate
Return time
Write
Discover
Create systems
Leave something behind

Selected work

01 · Sourced Q&A agent, built on Notion Workers

Ask Scott

What I do

An agent that answers plain-language questions straight from real data — every number traced back to its source — running across four different vertical markets.

What it's for

I don't want an answer I can't check. If Scott gives me a number, I want to click through and see exactly where it came from.

02 · A domain-specific language for Notion Workers

Blueprints

What I do

A DSL that compiles into a working Notion Worker — the model, the connector contract and the tradeoffs made explicit, not hidden inside someone else's black box.

What it's for

Automation is easy to sell and hard to trust once you can't see how it works. I wanted something I could actually explain, line by line, to the person relying on it.

03 · Tamil, language and AI research

AI-ku Project

What I do

A semantic approach to representing Tamil literature beyond a flat text corpus.

What it's for

A poem is not only its words. It carries commentary, history, grammar, interpretation and generations of conversation.

Experience

Three decades across engineering, architecture and technical leadership.

What it felt like

Worked across products, customers, integrations and platforms — and still more interested in the questions than the answers.

  1. Now

    Forward Deployed Engineering Lead, APAC — Notion

    Long enough to see every new technology arrive with a promise to make everything simple.

  2. Previous

    Integration Engineer — Stripe

    The job title changed. The work was usually the same: understand the problem, reduce confusion and help people move forward.

  3. Previous

    Senior Technical Architect — Slack

  4. Earlier

    Founder, CTO, Architect — Jenrise

  5. Beginning

    Studied computer science at Christ University, Bangalore — before the web had settled into what it is now.

I am still shipping.
I am still building.
Still testing.
Still learning.
Still explaining it simply.
Still changing my mind.

Three decades into technology, curiosity remains the most useful tool I have.