Curriculum vitae

Two decades of building software, companies, open-source tools, web standards, and the odd operational system that had to work because real money was stuck inside it.

Experience

2025 — Present
Founder & CEO

Achiral AI

Building independent AI systems from compute upward.
Apr — Sep 2025
CTO

FlippedOnDogs

Led computer-vision work for breed detection before starting Achiral.
2025
Engineering Lead

Fortune 10 Healthcare Company (Texas)

Helped launch ordering infrastructure for a new Cell & Gene Therapy business.
2020
CTO & Co-Founder

Blossom

Co-founded a team motivation app with AJ and Ahmad Kakar.
2019 — Present
Creator & Maintainer

Toucaan CSS

A stack-agnostic CSS framework for intrinsic layouts.
2017 — Present
Founder & CEO

Bubblin Superbooks

Long-form books on the web, built around web standards instead of file downloads.
2016 — Present
Creator & Maintainer

Bookiza Abelone

Open source tooling for writing, laying out, and publishing long-form work on the web.
2013 — 2016
Founder & CEO

Travo

Travel technology and curated trips. Useful lessons, expensive ones.
2011 — 2014
Founder

Diesis

Fraternity for guitar enthusiasts in New Delhi.
2010 — 2012
Co-Founder

Lattice Purple

Creative technology studio for interactive web and client work.
2008 — 2011
Co-Founder

YouSuggest

Social recommendations before trust graphs became a phrase people put in decks.
2008
Co-Editor

Pluggd.in (now NextBigWhat.com)

Helped grow India's leading tech blog to a million readers alongside Ashish Sinha and Pratyush Prasanna.
2002 — 2008
Engineer

Oil & Gas — Inventory Optimization

Helped bring down inventory from ₹90 crores to under ₹4 crores through three years of optimization work.

Skills

Web DevelopmentOpen sourceStartupsAI / MLPublishingCSS frameworksProduct designTechnical writing