I'm excited to share that I'm stepping into the role of CTO at Slush.
I have always been a builder.
Before startups or titles meant anything to me, I was a kid in New Delhi sitting on the floor, stacking LEGO bricks just to see if they would stand. Most of them did not. They fell, and I rebuilt them anyway.
Somewhere in that repetition, I learned that building is not about getting it right the first time.
It is about staying with the process long enough to learn who you are.
That instinct took me to Finland for my bachelor's degree.
I arrived curious, without a clear roadmap, drawn to a place that valued depth over noise. Living and learning here changed how I understood progress. It taught me that moving forward is not only about speed or ambition, but about patience and understanding what truly needs to exist before creating it. Building with empathy changes both the outcome and the purpose of the work.
Working in Europe deepened that perspective. Here, constraints are real, from careful capital to heavy regulation. Yet within those limits, I saw founders and teams build with resilience and integrity, choosing durability over shortcuts.
At Slush, I began building not just tools, but systems meant to support an entire ecosystem.
Over time, my role shifted.
I wrote less code and focused more on removing friction. The work became less about individual features and more about enabling others to build, especially in uncertain moments.
Today, my focus is to build foundations that allow others to create things that outlast us.
Infrastructure that empowers builders.
Systems that respect time, trust, and ambition.
Technology that compounds impact rather than attention.
I used to think my goal was to build one beautiful thing.
Now I know the real work is building the conditions where thousands of others can build what comes next.
And so, the building begins again.