About
Hey there š
My name is Vinayak, and Iām a software engineer based in Paris. Before moving here, I lived in Delhi, where I grew up.
I enjoy writing useful open-source code and talk about the things I learn.
I also enjoy running, climbing, and exploring the world through travel, food, and meeting new people. Let's chat!
I'm currently working at Clarify to build a CRM people actually love to use.
Towards the end of 2020, I joined June as the first employee, just before we started our Y Combinator batch. We were building the best way to do customer support, and we shipped new features, improvements, and fixes every week. June shut down this year and the founders joined Amplitude.
I spent the fall of 2020 at the Recurse Center, my favorite programming community. I explored a bit of everything, but the highlight was learning how Python C extensions work and building wheels for Linux, macOS, and Windows. I wrote about what I did every day for 3 months while I was there.
Before that, I worked at Grofers (now Blinkit), a quick-commerce service, where I helped establish the data infrastructure. This included building a replication tool to reliably move data to our data warehouse, and a notebook-centric data platform that enabled the data team to train models and build dashboards. During this time, I also organized the PyData Bangalore and Grofers Tech Talks meetups.
Before that, I worked at Socialcops (now Atlan), a data intelligence company, where I contributed to building the DISHA dashboard, India's national data platform. This platform integrates data from various ministries, enabling the Indian government to evaluate key schemes and initiatives. I also developed tools to help the data team create products for tracking disease outbreaks in India, monitoring businesses' contributions to achieving the SDGs, and much more.