I grew up in Mumbai, in a family that's been in the city long enough to have a complicated relationship with it. Did a BBA in Finance at NMIMS, partly because I was good with numbers and partly because nobody around me knew what else to suggest.
The first job was at Human Ventures, an agri-finance firm where I spent a year modelling unit economics for goat-breeding operations and writing feasibility reports for things like turmeric and ginger ventures. Sounds niche because it is. But it taught me something important: numbers stop being abstract the moment they have to predict whether a real farmer can feed their family.
After that I realised I was more interested in building the systems that handle data than in being the last person to touch the spreadsheet. So I started teaching myself Python via CS50P. I'm not a software engineer and don't pretend to be. I'm a finance person learning to code because thinking in feedback loops has become how I see most things.
Outside of work I DJ a bit. Ambient and house, mostly on a Pioneer DDJ 200, mostly for myself. I read The Economist obsessively. I support Manchester United, which is its own kind of suffering. I'm a generalist by temperament, which is sometimes useful and sometimes a problem.
This site is part of figuring out what to do with all of that. The Garden section is where I'm trying to think publicly about culture, religion, and the things I want to understand better. The Now section is what I'm actually doing right now. The Projects section is the small things I've built. The Assortment is a separate thing: a collection of audiovisual moments I've put together.
If any of this resonates, or you want to talk about something on the site, say hello.