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• Déjà vu: Recompute only what's necessary

  Published: 26 Jan, 2026

  • 3 min read

  On finding myself drawn to tools that embrace incremental computation.

• Joining Deepnote as a Technical Writer

  Published: 17 Nov, 2025

  • 2 min read

  Career update: I'm joining Deepnote as a Technical Writer :)

• Co-organizing and speaking at the Chennai Kafka meetup

  Published: 30 May, 2026

  • 4 min read

  On co-organizing the Chennai Apache Kafka meetup, speaking about CocoIndex's Kafka connector, and a Flink session the room didn't want to end.

• A day at ChennaiFOSS 2026

  Published: 13 May, 2026

  • 5 min read

  A day at ChennaiFOSS 2026 at IIT Madras, spent between the SciPy India booth, a few sessions, and a lot of conversations.

• Reflections on GitHub Constellation 2026

  Published: 17 Apr, 2026

  • 5 min read

  Notes from GitHub Constellation Bangalore: keynote takeaways, hallway conversations, GitHub's AI-era scale, and...

• My experience at Open Source Day 2026

  Published: 10 Apr, 2026

  • 7 min read

  What building around marimo taught me about devtool communities, and why the best community work usually starts with helping users well.

• Technical writing and community at Wikimedia DSDP

  Published: 4 Apr, 2026

  • 8 min read

  Three days with Wikimedia contributors in Delhi, a workshop on technical writing, and some thoughts on open knowledge.

• A weekend at PyConf Hyderabad 2026

  Published: 16 Mar, 2026

  • 6 min read

  Representing SciPy India at PyConf Hyderabad 2026; community booths, familiar faces, and a few reminders about why in-person OSS spaces still matter.