Bengaluru, India · Open to the world
Curiosity
has taken me
places.
I’m Ashish. I build AI agents at DevRev, get on stages, and take the long way home.
Six years teaching machines to talk. Now, figuring out what AI agents are allowed to do.
Bangkok, ThailandFive dogs. One very happy human.
A little context.
A lot of living.
01 / A few good stories
Life doesn’t fit
in a job title.
Some things I built. Some places I ended up.
A few things I’m glad I said yes to.
London, 2025On stage / A 2025 bucket-list item
I took the talks
a little further.
London. Copenhagen. San Francisco. In 2025, I wanted to find out what it was like to speak around the world.
The talks and recordingsI emailed Bezos.
He listened.
A promotion Indian developers couldn’t enter. One cold email. A surprisingly good reason to hit send.
Read the email that started it36 countries.
Next stop: Taiwan.
02 / What I build
Different questions.
Same curiosity.
Voice apps for a city and an airport. Identity systems at Okta. Now, AI support agents at DevRev.
The work, in detail“What if you could just ask?”
A thousand-odd voice apps across ten Amazon marketplaces, and an Alexa developer community in India.
“But should it be allowed to?”
I work on software permissions. This page turns the question on me: what work will I take on, and what will I refuse?
“And what’s outside?”
Atlético Madrid, Rajasthan Royals, daily chess, and Spanish lessons I sometimes miss for cricket.
Least privilege is not injection prevention
What a small database experiment taught me about limiting an AI assistant’s access, and why an allowed reply can still be wrong.
Read the pieceThe best things usually start with a conversation.
What’s your
“why not”?
A talk. A project. A wildly specific shared interest.
Or just a hello. There doesn’t have to be an agenda.