I believe in shipping fast and solving hard problems with elegant execution. Currently focused on Indic AI models and developer tools that people actually use.
Latest Writing & Thoughts
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What Nobody Tells You About Building a Two-Sided Marketplace
Everyone explains what a two-sided marketplace is. Nobody explains why 95% of them die in the first year. Here are the real lessons from the ones that survived.
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AI & DEEP TECH LEADERS
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Hugging Face's $4B Playbook: Why Community Beats Capital in AI Infrastructure
Hugging Face hit a $4.5B valuation without owning the best models or the most compute. Here's the open-source community playbook that beat every well-funded competitor.
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AI & DEEP TECH LEADERS
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How Discord Scaled From 0 to 100 Million Users Without a Traditional Growth Team
Discord hit 100 million users without a growth team, paid ads, or a traditional funnel. Here's the exact product decisions, community mechanics, and timing that made it happen.
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Products & Engineering
Shadow
Problem:
Developers leak sensitive IP and credentials during remote demos & screen sharing.
Solution:
Built a low-level desktop utility that redacts targeted windows from Capture APIs.
Impact:
- Solves a critical B2B privacy risk
- Cross-platform rendering architecture
ThoughtStream
Problem:
Complex note-taking apps break the flow state for engineers debugging systems.
Solution:
Designed a minimal, stream-of-consciousness capture tool focused entirely on speed.
Impact:
- Zero UI-latency text capture
- Improves rapid context switching
ML Nashik
Problem:
Central India lacked a high-density, hands-on Machine Learning ecosystem.
Solution:
Bootstrapped an elite Google Developer community focused on applied AI.
Impact:
- Upskilled thousands of developers
- Created a primary talent density hub
Open Source Models
Marathlish MiniLM
Bilingual semantic search model for mixed Marathi-English text. Fine-tuned MiniLM for cross-lingual understanding.
Hinglish MiniLM
Semantic search for Hindi-English code-mixed queries. Built for real-world multilingual search.
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Work With Me
I build AI-powered products, train specialized models, and share technical insights. Always open to interesting product engineering roles, collaborations, and speaking opportunities.