Recent Writing

Panoramic view of the Atacama Desert at sunset
travel 6 min read

Hunting Meteorites in the Atacama

Three weeks in the driest desert on Earth, searching for space rocks with a team of scientists and a lot of sunscreen.

12 min read

Ten Things I Learned Building Startups

Hard-won lessons from a decade of building and advising startups. Some of these are obvious in retrospect. None of them were obvious at the time.

adventure 7 min read

Naked into the Urban Jungle

Armed with Rs. 30 and zero identification, three strangers step out into Mumbai to see how much money they can raise in two hours using nothing but confidence and a made-up backstory.

Project

Neural Search Engine

Semantic search for unstructured documents

A search engine that understands meaning, not just keywords. Built for teams drowning in unstructured documents — contracts, research papers, internal wikis — where keyword search fails.

Uses transformer-based embeddings to find conceptually related content, even when the exact words differ. Deployed as a self-hosted service with a clean API.

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