The longer version.
The work, the rooms, the recognition.
And a few things that don’t fit in a bio.
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Press & profiles
2026
↗India Today · The Economic Times · News18.
“How a 19-year-old Bengaluru techie’s cold email to Jeff Bezos changed his career path forever.”
2024
↗Times of India · Business Today · India TV · NDTV · Yahoo News Australia · Analytics India Magazine.
The Wild Planet story. ANI’s clip did 813,000 views.
Jun 2024
↗The Economic Times · News18 · Moneycontrol · Times Now · News Karnataka.
The rent post. I put up the view from my Bengaluru flat and what it cost: ₹80,000, three bedrooms, two flatmates. About a million people had an opinion. Then strangers in Bengaluru and Mumbai started posting their own windows and their own rents. My defence, quoted in most of the coverage: “I respect my time more than money.”
Aug 2024
↗Breaking Prod · the long interview.
An hour on the freelance years, the trading, and why I stopped chasing salary, on Vivek’s podcast. Episode three, in Hinglish. Most of what is on this site in one sentence is in that recording in ten minutes, including the parts that did not go well.
2022
↗Amazon Developer Blog · profile.
“This engineering student turned down a full-time job to earn a living developing Alexa skills for the world’s leading brands.” Sixth of Amazon’s ten most-read Alexa posts that year.
Aug 2018
↗Amazon India · “The Secret Behind Alexa’s Desi Connection”.
One of three developers profiled.
2018
↗The Ken.
Quoted as an expert on the voice ecosystem.
The record,
with a backstory.
For how these pieces fit together, there’s the story.
For what I work by, there are the boundaries.