BUILD. THINK. WRITE. CAPTURE.
Fifteen years of shipping software. Staff engineer by day, camera in hand by light, Telugu poet when the noise settles. Everything I've learned — and most of what I'm still learning — lives somewhere on this site.
/Engineering
Notes and essays on building software — AI, TypeScript, design systems, shipping things people use.
/Think
Mental models I actually use. Thinking tools that help when decisions are hard.
/Write
Telugu poetry, technical essays, personal essays. Writing is how I understand things.
/Capture
Professional photography. Portraits, street, nature — visual stories from Sydney and beyond.
“Good systems survive their builders. Great ones outlive their frameworks.”
On engineering
The name
The first time I dropped into a terminal and typed /bin/ls, something clicked. Everything in Unix is a path. Commands aren't magic keywords — they're files living at addresses like /usr/bin/grep. The / meant root. It meant origin. It meant you could navigate anywhere from there.
Years later, when I needed a handle, /avi felt right. Not a brand. Not a username. A path — something you navigate to, something that has sub-paths, something with structure underneath.
This site is that structure. /engineering, /lens, /labs — each one a real destination, not just a category label.
$ ls /avi
Who
From Hyderabad to Sydney. Staff engineer with 15 years of experience building web systems, design systems, micro services, and micro frontends. Deep into AI — Claude Code, AI SDKs, applied AI in production. Also building productivity systems, wealth frameworks, and experimental apps on the side.
Father of two wonderful kids and husband to a lovely wife. A man with a camera lens telling visual stories. Writer who pens Telugu poetry and prose.
This site holds most of my engineering, AI, productivity notes and writings. Lens talks about my photography. Labs showcase my experiments.
Tech stack
UX → UI → APIs → Micro Services → Databases
Vibe coding → AI-assisted coding → Design Systems → Deployments
Creative
Eyes → Lens → Visual storytelling with a camera
Brain dump → Telugu writings
Career
Greenstone
Staff Engineer · Current
Engineering strategy, system design, and AI-native features.
Weel
Feature Lead
Micro frontends, micro services, expense management platform.
Thinkish
Founder
Preventive thinking tools. Built and shipped solo.
Atlassian
Feature Lead
Design system across Jira, Confluence, Trello. Used by 100+ internal teams.
Bugcrowd
Tech Lead
Full-stack modernisation of a cybersecurity platform.
Westpac
Senior Engineer
Banking platform, design systems, large-scale frontend.
ANZ
Senior Engineer
Frontend architecture and design system work.
Cognizant
Tech Lead
Delivery and technical leadership across client projects.
Valuepitch
Software Engineer
Where it all started.
“AI didn't make me faster. It made me braver about starting.”
On AI
Right now
Building
AI-native features at Greenstone. Thinki.sh v2 in the background.
Reading
Four Thousand Weeks · Oliver Burkeman
Shooting
Street and wildlife around Sydney — chasing golden hour.
Where to start
Reading
Engineering · AI
Rethinking How I Code with AI
After a year of daily AI-assisted coding, here is what actually changed — and what I still do myself.
Thinkish
Thinking Frameworks
Nine mental models for better decisions — first principles, inversion, pre-mortem, and more.
Engineering · AI
Spec-Driven Development
How I use specs to ship AI features faster and with less rework.
Sections
AI, TypeScript, design systems, micro services, and engineering leadership. 15 years of lessons.
How I organise work, money, and energy. Tools that stuck and systems that didn't.
Inputs, opinions, synthesis, and reviews. Books read, ideas that stuck, and the occasional strong take.
Professional photography. Portraits, street, nature — visual stories from Sydney.
Thinkish — preventive thinking tools built and shipped in public.
Telugu writing. Thoughts, opinions, feelings — in my mother tongue.
Who I am, where I've worked, and why I ended up in Sydney.
Outside work
“A photograph doesn't capture light. It decides what the light meant.”
On photography
Connect
Engineering, photography, Telugu writing, parenting in a foreign country — happy to talk about any of it.