About

I am a systems engineer. For six years at HSBC I have designed, built, and looked after Linux and cloud platforms used by retail banking, commercial banking, and securities trading — including market systems where being down is not an option.

The work I care about starts with how a machine is actually built and ends with something a team can run without me. I write automation so people do not have to repeat the same failure. One standard I led now applies across the bank’s Linux estate and took more than USD 30 million of licensing cost off the books.

Before the bank I studied creative media and could not leave computer vision or game AI alone: an internship on India’s first driver-assistance system, a camera app for visually impaired bowlers, an agent that learned to play Doom and Counter-Strike. That habit of starting from first principles never left.

Outside work I read philosophy, follow markets, play chess, and write. This site is the public notebook.

See skills for how I work, or the resume for the paper trail.