Prompted the prompts.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Semantic Kernel. Finding the words—and the context—that make a model useful.
Principal Engineer · Writer · Girl Dad
I’m an engineer, writer, and dad to two daughters. I like understanding how things work—from software to history to the choices that shape our lives. Seven cities and two countries later, I’m in Hyderabad, still building things, asking questions, and writing my way through the answers.
LinkedIn ↗Scaling Life ↗Systems, agents,
and the work between.
My current focus is the coordination layer between knowledge, decisions, and execution: agents, services, and people advancing shared work.
Orchestration. Event-driven workflows, durable work state, and independent capabilities. A lightweight agent coordinates the next actions; Service Bus and APIM connect events and managed APIs.
Governance & quality. Validate actions before execution, preserve evidence, and build review and evaluation into the workflow. Human judgment stays where it matters.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Semantic Kernel. Finding the words—and the context—that make a model useful.
Reason, act, observe, continue. Tool dispatch, execution state, and knowing when to stop.
Context, tools, and boundaries around the model. Work that can be inspected and maintained.
Fine-tuning and explorations in reinforcement learning.
Microsoft Security Blog · With Vinay Yadav · November 2025
At SASTRA, a bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering came with a student programming club and an appetite for explaining how things work. Then Purdue University: a master’s in Computer and Information Technology, taking that curiosity into data and systems.
Four years as a software engineer at FactSet, then Microsoft in 2018. Software Engineer, Senior, now Principal—the systems have grown, and so have the questions I want to answer.
Questions worth
following.
Essays about technology, learning, and being human. A place to follow a question and find out what I actually think.
FEATURED ESSAYWhen building gets easier, choosing what deserves to be built matters more.
The mumblings of a 16-year-old with too many opinions and far too much punctuation. Read as teenage archaeology, not my current views—or evidence that an editor was involved.
FROM THE ARCHIVE · 2009An early look beyond search engines. The curiosity aged better than the punctuation.
They’re a very good reason to close the laptop. I spend my working day thinking about what comes next; they remind me to be here for what’s happening now.
Places I’ve
called home.