Updated April 2026, from Srinagar. Inspired by nownownow.com.

Building

Leading technology execution at iQuasar — Owning the technology budget and operating model across software delivery, platform design, and AI productization. The daily work: making sure architecture decisions, delivery quality, and team performance compound rather than drift.

Project KUN (كن) — Working on the Intent Engine (The Prophet) component. Designing the mathematical representation of intent graphs that map human-described behavior to CPU instruction sets. The core question: how do you formalize “vibes” into something a binary emitter can reason about?

Astra — Refining the type system. Generics implementation is the current challenge. LLVM backend is stable for core primitives.

Writing

Publishing THE SYSTEM LAYER weekly on LinkedIn — a newsletter about thinking clearly about products, software, and leadership. 15 issues and counting. The most recent: The Complexity Threshold.

Starting THE HUMAN LAYER — a new weekly newsletter about clarity, attention, identity, and the inner layer beneath the systems we build. Two issues published so far.

Working on essays about execution discipline, AI implementation beyond demo-grade, and the relationship between writing and leading.

Reading

Thinking about organizational systems, formal verification, and the philosophy of computation. The gap between intent and execution — at every layer. Reading about category theory and its applications to programming language design.

Thinking About

The relationship between language and execution. Every programming language is a compression of human intent into something a machine can follow. KUN is asking: what if we removed the intermediate compression step entirely?

Also: how the act of writing — poetry, essays, reflections — sharpens the same muscle that makes technology leadership durable. Noticing, naming, deciding.

Not doing

Not consulting broadly. Not chasing speaking gigs. Not building a personal brand for its own sake. Focused on depth over reach — the work should speak, and the writing should think, before either gets amplified.

This page changes. Last update: April 17, 2026.