I work on systems that have to hold, build things to find out what’s true, think in public, and explore whatever I can’t put down.
I’m Devki — an engineer from IIT Bombay, most recently at Meta, where I worked on large-scale data pipelines and the infrastructure that keeps them honest. This is my headquarters on the internet: part portfolio, part notebook, part lab. More about me.
- Bengaluru
- Meta, Rippling, Fincent
- CS at IIT Bombay, ’21
Now
Full page- Setting up this site as a permanent home for my work, writing and experiments.
- Looking for the next problem worth several years, at the intersection of AI and real workflows.
- Writing down what I learned from six months of testing startup ideas.
Recently
- devki.workThis site. A personal headquarters that grows by adding files, not features.
- A headquarters, not a portfolioWhy I built a site that is allowed to be unfinished.
- A personal site in one sitting, with an AI pairCan a site worth keeping go from a written brief to something deployable in a single session?
- Disqualify fastThe goal of early validation isn't to prove an idea right. It's to find the cheapest way to prove it wrong.
- Detection time is the first metricYou can't fix what you haven't noticed. Most reliability work starts with shortening the gap between broken and known.
Trajectory
All experience- Entrepreneur First, entrepreneur in residence
- Meta, software engineer
- Rippling, software engineer 2
- Fincent, software engineer 2
Building something, or thinking about a problem I might find interesting? Write to me