Now

A snapshot of what I'm focused on right now. Updated March 2026 from India. What's a /now page?

🛠️Working on

• Exploring enterprise AI adoption patterns and helping teams navigate the shift from AI experiments to production-grade systems.
• Building in public — sharing lessons from 19+ years of engineering leadership through this blog and LinkedIn.
• Mentoring engineers transitioning from individual contributor to leadership roles.

📚Reading

• The Pragmatic Programmer — revisiting the classics with fresh eyes.
• AI-adjacent research on agentic systems and multi-model architectures.
• Leadership & org design — always on the reading list.

🧠Thinking about

• What does "engineering excellence" actually mean in an AI-first world?
• The gap between AI hype and AI value in enterprise teams — and how to close it.
• How the best engineering leaders stay technical without becoming bottlenecks.

⚡Excited about

• The speed at which AI coding tools are improving — and what that means for how we build software.
• India's growing role in the global AI ecosystem.
• The next generation of engineering leaders coming up through the ranks.