a body of clay, a mind full of play,
a moment's life - that is me

👋 I am a CTO with 21 years in software. In my past life, I have been an entrepreneur, growth hacker, VP engineering, and architect. I have built systems in diverse domains like payments, messaging, social products, large-scale data systems.

Building now

• vrk - Unix tools for the agent era
• Pave - full-stack Python: auth, jobs, an HTMX kit, one-command deploy
• Soniq - an async job queue that runs on the Postgres you already have
• PlugDash - plugins for EmDash sites
• addy - git-driven SSH access control for small teams
• Cookie - an open source landing website with a blog built in
• Moonwalk - a fast, minimal Jekyll blog theme with a clean dark mode
• chhoti si kahani - bite-sized stories in Hindi

Old projects

• AIVA - an AI Slack app that manages your calendar
• apicagent - extracts browser, OS & device data from a user-agent string
• soopr - a content promotion tool for blogs and marketing sites
• annexr - search documents and websites using generative AI
• humangous - public and private guides about yourself
• apicping - website uptime and performance monitoring
• microrequests - a Python library for consuming microservices efficiently
• blockr - a CLI tool to block and unblock websites
• scoop - a Sinatra boilerplate with Corneal, Capistrano, Puma & Nginx
• schedulr - delayed triggers and jobs through callbacks
• webhooks - a webhook service
• mudra - a virtual points and wallet system
• pincodr - free JSON APIs for Indian pincodes
• gupshupy - an unofficial Ruby SDK for SMSGupShup
• gmail-merger - personalised emails via Gmail to a list of people

✨⚡You can read more about me on my blog or follow me on Twitter - @abhinav