I am a Computer programmer by day, Intergalactic Rogue by night.
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My story began with an unhealthy addiction to video games. As a young 13 year old boy I got gifted a PC, this was very rare back then in Mumbai/India. A privilege I will never forget. I would spend all my day fidgeting with Windows, and playing strategy and mmorpg games. Soon my brain latched onto automating level ups in these games and soon enough I found myself learning scripting and programming to hack them. From that moment on I knew what my career would be :)
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Now I work as a full-stack developer, fractional CTO, software & product consultant helping startups and small to medium-sized companies figure out their product, their users, and help them with their technology stack.
I started working at Gaiwan 6 years ago as a Founding Engineer. Experienced in system architecture, data driven design, high performance computing. Also have a great radar for detecting over engineering before it happens, and a keen eye to ensure the technology work being done stays true to the business objectives. We have helped multiple clients and their teams by coming in as experts or as a fractional CTO.
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In my free time, I enjoy playing real-time strategy games, cooking, hacking with sensors and Raspberry Pi's, setting up my homelab, hosting local llms and fine tuning them, building PC's, looking at HDD and SSD prices rise and regret not buying them soon enough, linux gaming and tinkering with CachyOS (arch btw, lol), and doing street photography!
I love self hosting software and am reducing my dependency on the cloud day by day. I try to reuse and repurpose old hardware and am always on the lookout to grab them for cheap and find them a new home!
So naturally, you'll find my desk full of random hardware and tech gizmos. HELP!!!
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Beyond the Hype: Obstacles on the Path to Clojure Adoption
Ornament: CSS and Styled Components in Clojure & ClojureScript
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I spend a lot of time using, building, and contributing to Open Source Software. I was also recently funded by ClojuristsTogether to work on one my projects.
My GitHub account: github.com/oxalorg
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I create youtube videos about Emacs, Vim, Clojure, and ClojureScript. Check out my YouTube Channel here.
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In 2020, I worked with a team from Yale University to develop a Covid Critical application which was developed for the Government of New Haven, Connecticut.
In 2018, I left my job and co-founded (as the CTO) Taaza Kitchen — an eGrocery platform, where I along with a team under me developed and designed the entire platform from scratch. We grew the company to ~$150K ARR from 2 employees to over 15 and countless contractors.
Before that, I launched several micro internet businesses since I was 14 years old. Most notably — A graphic design studio, a web development studio, and a marketplace for trading digital games.