our tribe. we build and launch products, sing carnatic music and climb mountains.

Atharva got into serious software development by emailing patches to the Git mailing list, rewriting parts of the submodule machinery. At nilenso, he's worked on a queue management system for a hyperlocal delivery startup, data integration challenges for a population-scale public health system, and — more recently — applied AI engineering, where he builds LLM-based products and writes critically about how we should be building and evaluating them.

When he isn't debugging like a stoic, he usually writes blogs appreciating Comic Sans, creates grimy digital art and makes questionable beats with Indian truck horns and autotuned baby sounds.