Software architect · Writer · Co-founder & CTO, Mviaso

Big ideas shouldn’t need big studios.

Software architecture, essays and poems, and companies built with small teams who have big stories to tell.

A childhood of atlases and made-up constellations, each with a settlement at its base. The medium changed from poems to programs to systems that try to understand their world. The wandering didn’t.

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The Writer

Essays, stories and poems

Poems since 2007 in English, Hindustani and Punjabi. Essays on building, on Indian IT and on the craft, and a memoir written one chapter at a time.

Approach

Software as creative expression.

Close to sixteen years of architecting software across consumer goods, ecommerce, manufacturing, telecom and QA automation, at the meeting point of Domain-Driven Design, DSL development, and applied research in ML, AI and IoT.

Programming is a kind of writing, and well-designed systems read like stories. The expertise is not in mastering languages; it is in understanding problems deeply and crafting solutions that serve the people who eventually use them.

The work is rooted in systems thinking that reaches beyond code: organisational design, team dynamics and behavioural psychology are part of every architectural decision.

Simplicity

The simplest expression of an idea is usually the most durable.

Collaboration

The best architectures emerge from teams that elevate each other.

Craftsmanship

Frameworks are tools, not destinations. Slow, deliberate work outlasts trends.

Featured

Essay

Why AI should grow wiser

LLMs lowered the walls between ideas and their making. The harder question is what all that capability is for.

Poem · 2007

A Sunday Afternoon

Alone walking a bit, On a Sunday afternoon, With rest all sleeping,…

The thread

Twenty years of one question: what does it take for a system to understand its world?

2003

The blue screen of Turbo C++, in 9th standard

2009

MusCom, a music composer for laypeople

2016

A language for testers, written the way they think

2022

Notes on intelligence, understanding and worlds

2026

Mviaso: studying wisdom, in minds and in machines