Now
What I’m doing now
Backend & AI engineer at Initializ. Most days: Elixir and Go for the Nestara lending platform, and the AI agents that sit on top of it.
Work
Software Development Engineer · Initializ
Gurugram · Jul 2024 — present · initializ.ai ↗
- Nestara lending backend (Elixir/Phoenix) — top-up pipeline, DSA lead routing and the bureau risk engine.
- Nestara OneCRM — the sales team’s CRM: calling workflow, lead priority and source analytics.
- Ask Nestara AI — a typed pydantic-ai agent that calls calculator tools instead of guessing numbers.
- Forge — shipped the WhatsApp channel for the open-source agent runtime.
Learning
- Elixir — GenStage & Broadwaybackpressure-aware pipelines for ingestion.
- Agent evalshand-labelled sets for tool-call accuracy and retrieval quality.
- Postgres — logical replicationzero-downtime schema migrations.
Reading
- Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann
- Concurrency in GoKatherine Cox-Buday
- The Pragmatic EngineerGergely Orosz · newsletter
Listening
- Lo-fi beatsthe default at 1 am.
- Signals & ThreadsJane Street’s engineering podcast.
- Arijit, stillsome things don’t update.
On the side
- Ratn Toolsbrowser-only developer utilities.
- Personal Trackerhabits, money and sleep in one PWA.
- Ratn Labswriting about system design and Go.
Not thinking about
the next JavaScript frameworkNFTshot takes on X