Field notes from
shipping software
with the machines.
Grief, excitement & productivity.
// where I've built
currently · & · previously
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// co-founder
// head of platform Swamp Club ↗ AI-native automation platform. Open extension ecosystem for models, workflows, vaults, and datastores. - // founding infra engineer Matillion ↗ Cloud data integration platform. Spent a decade building the infrastructure that moved data for tens of thousands of teams.
- // advisor Gymwasp ↗ AI-native coach and health tracking.
// career.timeline
16 years · 19 roles · 8 countries
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// recent.writing
- Aug 6, 2026 The End of Vendor Lock-in Four architectures in six weeks, under live production traffic, with no maintenance window. We didn't see any of the infrastructure requirements coming, and it didn't matter.
- Jul 22, 2026 The Keyboard on Floor 3 For six months, a sticky note on a London hotdesk read: “The S key is sticky, sorry - Mandeep.” What that note did to one keyboard explains exactly what agentic memory toxicity is.
- Jul 12, 2026 Correct, Relevant, Concise. In That Order Writing code was always the surface. The real work was the frameworks and processes underneath. Machines have the typing now; what's left is what always mattered: context, and the deterministic plumbing that makes it reliable.