The Pragmatic AI Strategist for Growing Startups
18 years scaling technology teams · 3 bootstrap exits · Helping growth-stage companies implement AI that actually works
90% of AI projects fail because they solve fake problems.
I help growth-stage companies cut through the hype and implement AI solutions grounded in real business needs — not vendor pitches or conference demos.
50+
Engineers Managed
3
Startups to $10M
18
Years Experience
1st
Analytics Platform in India
Latest Thinking
Thoughts on AI implementation, engineering leadership, and building teams
AI Coding Tools Are Everywhere. Most Teams Are Using Them Wrong.
Every developer uses AI coding tools now. But most teams haven’t built the processes to use them well. Seven rules from a year of AI-assisted development at scale.
January 22, 2025
Context EngineeringI Manage 50+ Engineers. Here’s What’s Actually Changing.
Six months of tracking which engineering skills are gaining value and which are losing it. The patterns surprised me—not because AI was changing things, but because of what was changing and what wasn’t.
January 15, 2025
Industry StoriesCloudflare Crashed. Half the Internet Went Down. Here’s What I Learned.
ChatGPT, Spotify, Dropbox, Zoom, Reddit—all down because of a database permissions change. Three lessons from managing production systems across three startups.
January 8, 2025
What I Believe
“AI implementation is 80% organizational change, 20% technology”
“Startups fail at scaling because they hire for skills, not judgment”
“Context engineering matters more than prompt engineering”