about me

Hi! I am Arnav. I build apps, websites, and teach people to code! I have always loved fiddling with computers. Made my first gif stop-motion animation with photos of Hotwheels cars and G.I.Joe action figures when I was in 4th grade, and since then have always loved creating videos, websites, and apps on my computer.

Of late, I am more of a cynic and have a bleak outlook on the diminishing attention spans of the entire population, the culture of outrage being a political force, and the steady destruction of the planet and climate change.

Laurels I rest on -

• I lead product and strategy in the founders’ office at Scaler, and run Scaler Pod - a podcast with some of India’s top CTOs and tech leaders

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhBy6YSIT0DjPC-a9j-Alz21GHOjzrVe

• Used to lead Zomato’s mobile development team, and did some perf tuning on the Android app

  • https://www.zomato.com/blog/our-android-app-has-been-eating-but-shedding-weight

  • https://www.zomato.com/blog/how-we-cut-the-build-time-for-our-android-app-by-95

• Co-founded and ran one of India’s most popular coding bootcamps of its time - Coding Blocks

  • https://medium.com/coding-blocks/embracing-open-source-at-a-for-profit-business-and-why-it-is-a-better-idea-ecae393a8615

  • https://medium.com/@championswimmer/the-introvert-the-teacher-the-speaker-the-joy-of-the-daily-battle-2c3c2d69d511

what is this newsletter

I very regularly rant on Twitter about

• tech companies and startups making products I do not like (or think should not exist)

• surveillance capitalism, ads proliferating our world

• financial policy, which often excludes the underprivileged

• tech education - which focusses a lot of ‘scaling’ and hyped-up terms like blockchain, AI, while missing the fundamentals

Some of those threads full of rants, end up on this newsletter.

Issues are fairly irregular! You have been warned.