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Built out of curiosity. Useful tools, weekend experiments, and problems that wouldn’t leave me alone.
01 Pawzzle02 gitinit03 OOTD04 Finboard05 Crumbs06 ResumeIt07 OpenGym08 ClickSight
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Reset puzzle ↺ Playable sample · illustrated tiles Play / independent Pawzzle/01 A small puzzle. A very good girl.
A daily photo puzzle inspired by my dog, Manda. Her photographs became a little game to share.
Inside the project git init → something useful ⌘
Spring Flask Kratos
01 src/main/java/app/
02 Application.java
03 api/HealthController.java
04 config/DatabaseConfig.java
05 src/test/java/app/
06 HealthControllerTest.java
07 build.gradle.kts
08 Dockerfile
Illustrative file tree · full generation in gitinit Tools / independent gitinit/02 Start with the interesting problem.
Backend scaffolding with the integrations, configuration and runnable foundations already connected.
Inside the project THE WARDROBE / A STUDY IN COMBINATIONS
Fewer decisions.More combinations.
Illustrated sample wardrobe Everyday / independent OOTD/03 A little less “what should I wear?”
A personal wardrobe companion combining local organisation and on-device intelligence with cloud-assisted features.
Inside the project FINBOARD / LOCAL LEDGER ● ON DEVICE
An illustrative portfolio
₹12,40,000
Connected accounts 01
Manual assets & SGBs 02
Documents, in context 03
Synthetic figures · no personal financial data Finance / independent Finboard/04 The whole picture, on my Mac.
An independent macOS finance dashboard built around Fold , with room for the assets and documents that need a human touch.
Inside the project FRAGMENTS, FOUND & FILED FROM THE BROWSER A thought worth
#ideas #reading CAPTURE → CONNECT Text. A link.
⌁ saved for later Sample notes Capture / open-source extension Crumbs/05 Keep the thought before it goes.
A cloud notes and sharing workspace by Bretzel, extended with quicker capture from the browser and phone.
Inside the project A CONVERSATION, TAKING SHAPE What did you build?Something that made a difference.
ARTHUR MORGAN Sample résumé Experience
Selected work
Careers / independent ResumeIt/06 A conversation becomes a résumé.
Guided questions and structured answers turn an intimidating blank page into a résumé you can refine.
Inside the project A LITTLE STRUCTURE. THEN SHOW UP. M12 T13 W14 T15 F16 S17 S18
ILLUSTRATIVE WEEK / 03 Make room Synthetic plan · no exercise media Movement / open-source extension OpenGym/07 A plan for the next session.
A self-hosted workout and body-weight tracker, extended with saved workout plans and weekly meal planning.
Inside the project CLICKSIGHT / SIGNAL FROM EVENTS Visit
Explore
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Complete
Ask a better question.Follow the events.
Synthetic event funnel Analytics / professional open source ClickSight/08 From events to an explanation.
A ClickHouse-native analytics interface developed as professional open-source work at Allen.
Inside the project Drag to explore ⟷ or use the project index and previous and next buttons.
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The work behind the work. From conversations and payments to the infrastructure behind millions of events.
Apr 2026 — Present Allen Digital Staff Engineer May 2024 — Apr 2026 Allen Digital Senior Software Engineer May 2022 — May 2024 Nykaa Software Engineer II Apr 2021 — Apr 2022 Airtel Africa Digital Labs Software Engineer Jul 2019 — Apr 2021 CarDekho Software Engineer Aug 2015 — May 2019 Manipal University Jaipur B.Tech · Computer Science & Engineering Bengaluru · Apr 2026 — Present
Staff Engineer Allen Digital Building the data foundations, internal tools and operational systems behind a learning platform.
Saved $11K/month in five weeks through ClickHouse tuning, stale-resource cleanup and compute downsizing from 100 GiB / 25 vCPU to 64 GiB / 16 vCPU. Built in-house proctoring for AOSAT and AIOT, reducing cost from ₹50 to ₹2 per student per test. Built an insight engine using OpenMetadata, a business ontology, recurring Spark jobs and QuickSight dashboards. Introduced PII masking policies and onboarding, plus automation for Groundcover logs and PagerDuty triage. Currently architecting a natural-language assistant bot to support students with their academics. Apr 2026 — Present Allen Digital Staff Engineer + Bengaluru · Apr 2026 — Present
Staff Engineer Allen Digital Building the data foundations, internal tools and operational systems behind a learning platform.
Saved $11K/month in five weeks through ClickHouse tuning, stale-resource cleanup and compute downsizing from 100 GiB / 25 vCPU to 64 GiB / 16 vCPU. Built in-house proctoring for AOSAT and AIOT, reducing cost from ₹50 to ₹2 per student per test. Built an insight engine using OpenMetadata, a business ontology, recurring Spark jobs and QuickSight dashboards. Introduced PII masking policies and onboarding, plus automation for Groundcover logs and PagerDuty triage. Currently architecting a natural-language assistant bot to support students with their academics. May 2024 — Apr 2026 Allen Digital Senior Software Engineer + Bengaluru · May 2024 — Apr 2026
Senior Software Engineer Allen Digital Real-time data infrastructure and analytics that teams can operate and trust.
Built CDC pipelines from MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB and S3 into ClickHouse through Kafka Connect. Delivered an in-house analytics platform handling 200M events/day at 50 ms P95, saving $350K/year. Replaced 11+ pipelines with Lambda, saving $37K/year; moved an attribute store to MySQL at under 10 ms P95, saving $20K/year. Reduced Nudge cohort refresh from 24 hours to 15 minutes, supporting ₹70Cr in annual revenue and over 20% lead conversion. Established schema-registry runbooks across five teams and unified identity across sessions and devices. May 2022 — May 2024 Nykaa Software Engineer II + Gurgaon · May 2022 — May 2024
Software Engineer II Nykaa High-volume commerce systems, from the cart to the promise of delivery.
Built cashback serving 100K users, improving retention by 38% and average order value by 50%. Delivered a discount engine with sub-10 ms GET requests across 500K schemes and 5K SKUs. Built the ETA service and a gateway handling 3M daily cart requests. Apr 2021 — Apr 2022 Airtel Africa Digital Labs Software Engineer + Gurgaon · Apr 2021 — Apr 2022
Software Engineer Airtel Africa Digital Labs Payments infrastructure across markets and payment instruments.
Built a payment state machine and recurring payment flows. Helped deliver a Nigerian digital bank in six months. Worked on UNICEF Madagascar voucher payments with Paycode. Jul 2019 — Apr 2021 CarDekho Software Engineer + Jaipur · Jul 2019 — Apr 2021
Software Engineer CarDekho Conversation systems and tools that put automation in operators’ hands.
Built omnichannel chat across web, WhatsApp and Messenger, including voice and video. Built an Angular and Spring drag-and-drop workflow editor and SMS automation. Delivered a Google and Facebook Ads dashboard saving ₹6L/day. Aug 2015 — May 2019 Manipal University Jaipur B.Tech · Computer Science & Engineering + Jaipur · Aug 2015 — May 2019
B.Tech · Computer Science & Engineering Manipal University Jaipur The beginning of a continuing education in making things work.
Graduated with a GPA of 8.78. RECOGNITION / ALLEN Impact Champion Jun 2026
Innovation Award Nov 2025
Rising Star Dec 2024
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A fresh pair of eyes. Consulting, early foundations, and getting a team from an idea to something that works.
NxtPe 2023 FOUNDING ENGINEER / FINTECH Helped build a collections platform for emerging markets, from the transaction lifecycle to the team behind it.
Built 8+ microservices covering payment orchestration, fees, taxes, ledgers and reconciliation. Designed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Built and led a team of six engineers. About NxtPe
RedLava 2024 FULL-STACK DEVELOPER / CONVERSATIONS Built tools for a WhatsApp Business API platform serving sales, marketing and customer support teams.
Delivered a workflow builder backend with 10+ action types, including webhooks, API calls and conditional branches. Propagated context through earlier nodes across the frontend and backend. Enabled live WhatsApp catalogues from CSV uploads. About RedLava 04 / FIELD NOTES
Away from the keyboard. What I read, what I listen to, and the worlds I keep coming back to.
Novels and stories, poetry, drama, philosophy and non-fiction. A few selections from the books I’ve read. Pull a spine to take a closer look.
Novels & Stories 03 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Poetry 03 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda कुछ और नज्में गुलज़ार Pandrah Panch Pachhattar Gulzar
Drama 03 आषाढ़ का एक दिन Mohan Rakesh Gagan Damama Bajyo Piyush Mishra The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
Philosophy 03 The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Walden Henry David Thoreau The Denial of Death Ernest Becker
Non-fiction 03 Who Will Cry When You Die? Robin Sharma Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Letters from a Father to his Daughter Jawaharlal Nehru Old Hindi melodies, ghazals, indie and rock. A few selections from the playlists I keep returning to. Pick a sleeve and press play.
TAPE 01 79 SONGS अर्ज़-ए-तमन्ना TAPE 02 27 SONGS दिल-ए-ख़ुशफ़हम TAPE 03 21 SONGS हश्र-ए-हसरत TAPE 04 24 SONGS चियर्स भाईसाहब 🍻 03 / Other worlds
Games I return to Show all games + 3 Open worlds, role-playing games and campaigns that reward a long afternoon. A few stories I return to when I want to wander, investigate or disappear for a while.
OPEN WORLD · RPG 2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 ACTION-ADVENTURE 2016 Uncharted 4 OPEN WORLD · RPG 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn OPEN WORLD · ACTION 2013 GTA V TACTICAL · FPS 2023 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III WORLD WAR II · FPS 2021 Call of Duty: Vanguard HISTORICAL · FPS 2017 Call of Duty: WWII 