Enginnering @getpostman | Prev - @zomato, @upraised | Designer | Minimalist | Curious 🚀

Bengaluru, India
Joined January 2016
Things I will introspect on if given a chance to go back to my Freshman. A thread 🧵:
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CAR-ZZZZZYYYY
Real life, baby
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Saare Jahan Se Accha 🇮🇳❤️
I made a short 5 min documentary on the greatest moments of Indian history from 1947 to today
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I have one of the best balcony view of sunrises in Mahadevapura! 🌻
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PanIIT Alumni India body on US govt announcement on Green Card filings issue:
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TIL: what the “abstract” in Abstract Syntax Tree means. CST (Concrete syntax tree) → every token. AST → only the meaningful structure. One of those concepts that suddenly makes sense. 🧠
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THIS:
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also a shoutout to @nilbuild for these amazing mascots ❤️
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Nothing beats building something that people actually find useful. ❤️ 9.5k+ users, 19K+ visits, 3K+ walking routes generated and 1.3K+ routes shared. Pretty cool to see a side project turn into something people actually used during Ganeshotsav. puneganpati.in/ganeshotsav-2…
Every Ganeshotsav in Pune, everyone spends half their time figuring out: "Which mandal next?" So here's something I've built. Check and let me know your thoughts 🫣 puneganpati.in/start?utm_sou…
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No one can fill the hole left by another human.
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Got the max FOMO for Pune and Ganpati decorations this year 🥺
The happiness of scrolling through stories of Marathi friends’ Ganpati decorations at home is just unmatched. 🙏🧿🌸
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Replying to @prashant_v91
Having kid of your own is greatest human experience ever!
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From now on, anyone who says “NO” to my “Bhai, tu adrak wali chai piyega kya?” is getting just one reply: “Khair, bandar ke jaane adrak ka swaad.” 🐒
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So today, here is what I did. Slack/Looms → intent, personas & conversion gaps → journey → Figma MCP → critique with Impeccable → built with Claude Code. Used @coreyhainesco 's marketing-skills throughout. 6 hours, end-to-end. What a wild time to be a curious engineer. 👨‍💻
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If your best hires came from @zomato or @letsblinkit that is not luck. I have taken thousands of interviews in the last 11 years, across every kind of startup. Candidates from Zomato and Blinkit stood out most of the time. The difference never showed up in the CV. Four things I keep noticing: → They hand real ownership to young people. Not exposure, not shadowing decisions with consequences. → They hire young, high on intent, low on skill. Most of us say this. Very few of us actually do it. → Failure there ends an experiment, not a career. → They think in systems. They find the one lever that moves the whole number and pull it, instead of running 20 initiatives that each move 2%. Most teams confuse effort with impact. They don't. But the last one is the hardest to build. There, love for the org sits above love for your own function. Trade-offs happen at the cost of a team or a quarter, never at the cost of the company. Most large organisations lose this without noticing every leader starts optimising for their own P&L, their own headcount, their own win. Nobody is being political. Everyone is just doing their job well. And the company quietly stops being one company. And this shows up on the scoreboard. Blinkit and Zomato dominate respective category against well-funded rivals splitting the rest. Talent density is the moat nobody lists in the deck. That's the recipe you won't find in any quarterly report or news story.
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Bappa ❤️🙏🏻
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Nice… never visualised cube in a graph 🚀
Rubik's cube and graph theory.
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