Find the problem.
Frame it right.
Ship the fix.
3+ years solving problems that impact millions of users.
Where I've shipped.
Two companies. One discipline: finding where things break and fixing them.
Where I learned.
Where the thinking was built.
Sharpening product, strategy, and analytics instincts at India's top institute. Exploring product management, fintech, and consumer internet — and writing case studies in public.
Where the systems thinking and problem-solving foundation was built. The engineering instinct that makes product work more rigorous — and the habit of tracing problems to root causes, not symptoms.
Parliamentary debate competitions and Toastmasters' Competent Communication track. Built the discipline for structured arguments, thinking under pressure, and commanding a room — in English, Hindi, and Urdu. Because the best product insight means nothing if you can't sell it.
What I'm writing.
Teardowns, strategy memos, build logs. Thinking out loud.
What I've built.
Real shipped code. PMs who can build ask sharper questions.
Weekend trip planning from a Tier 2/3 Indian city means IRCTC in one tab, MakeMyTrip in another, Google Maps in a third, and a calculator for the budget. The problem was never missing information — it was missing synthesis. VibePath takes a single form submission and returns 3 complete itineraries with real train prices, budget breakdowns by category, and IRCTC booking links. Two modes: Discovery (5-factor algorithm scores 33 destinations against your vibe, budget, and travel window) and Destination (deep local-expert plan for a city you already have in mind). A dual-AI pipeline runs Groq for instant narrative generation alongside Gemini 2.0 Flash with live Google Search Grounding for real-time travel alerts. Always returns 3 cards. Never 0.
The insight that drove every decision: this was not a search problem. It was a synthesis problem. Every piece of data already existed — train times, budgets, local tips. The job was to assemble it into a plan someone could act on.
Most stock apps optimise for alerts. This one optimises for decisions. The core architectural call: the LLM does not generate intelligence — it only communicates it. Intelligence is built deterministically across 7 context layers before the LLM sees anything. A conviction score (1–10) per holding updates only on new evidence, not daily noise. Three scheduled Telegram briefs per trading day. ₹0/month infrastructure.
If the brief can't explain why a stock matters to your specific portfolio in 80 words, it doesn't understand the portfolio well enough.
Islamic prayer content online has a trust problem. Millions search 'dua for anxiety' and land on ad-heavy pages with no source attribution. DuaVault is 151 verified duas and 91 hadiths, each with source book, hadith number, and authenticity grade. Content is tagged across two axes — category (what you're doing) and emotion (what you're feeling) — to match how people actually search. Fully automated daily distribution to Instagram, Facebook, and email subscribers. $0/month, by design.
In religious content, incorrect attribution causes real harm. Every entry has a verified source or it doesn't exist in the product.
What I'm up to.
What shaped how I think.
Books, films, music, poetry. The inputs that built the product lens.
Read it twice. First time, I highlighted half of it. Second time, I realized I'd already lived most of it — just with an ops title, not a PM one. It gave me the vocabulary for work I'd already been doing.
Short, brutal, precise. No wasted words, no softening of uncomfortable truths. I read Manto when I need to remember what clarity actually looks like — and what it costs to achieve it.
Five seasons of watching someone make irreversible decisions, each one defensible in the moment. The best case study in compounding consequences I've found outside of work. Every pivot Walter makes has a logic. Every logic has a downstream cost.
Andy Dufresne had a 19-year roadmap and shipped every milestone. The library scene alone is worth the runtime — the clearest illustration I've seen of what institutional change actually requires.
Shot in black-and-white, partially colorized 44 years later. The craft still holds. It taught me that quality doesn't expire — and that production is itself a form of argument. Dilip Kumar's Salim is the best screen performance I've seen.
When I need to write clearly, I put on Jagjit Singh. The precision of his phrasing — every word placed where it belongs — keeps me honest.
The range is unfair. Devotional, comedic, melancholic — all in the same era, often the same session. Rafi is what mastery without ego looks like.
No formal training. All feel. He never tried to sound perfect — he tried to sound true. The most emotionally honest voice I've heard.
Every good PM needs a language for the things data can't say. Ghalib wrote about longing and loss with a precision that makes most modern writing feel approximate. I read him when dashboards stop making sense.