Hi, I am Vishal

Based software engineer, yes sometimes I have software opinions that you may not agree with...
I build things for money and things for me.

My stack: Kotlin runs the show (daily driver), TypeScript handles the web (React + NestJS), and Python/Bash come in when I need to script my way out of problems. AI has been great at spinning up scripts/programs that augment my dev workflow.

Non-exhaustive list of tools I use daily:
Raycast, Obsidian, opencode (claude code sometimes), Ghostty, Calendr, Hex, and my brain.

I like talking about software, so I dump my thoughts here. It's literally just my brain, but organized. Maybe.

Outside of code: My music library is a crime scene — good luck profiling me from it.
I game when I can. Some of my faves: God of War (the newer ones), Elden Ring, iRacing, Assetto Corsa, Hitman, Satisfactory (do not start this game, you'll be sucked into a hole and spend 200+ hours getting your factories looking like the way you want them).
My love for cars and car culture from the 00s and 10s made me wanna build a sim rig, and it's an absolute blast driving these in games.

Fun fact: I'm the Liam Neeson of debugging. I don't know the code. I've never touched the language. But I will troubleshoot it, and I will be the fastest to fix it.

Another fun fact: This whole site was built by Gemini 3 pro 🙂

And remember, Sometimes you have a shitty day. Sometimes the day has a shitty you.

Ship it! We're pushing to prod 🤝

Thanks for reading!
-V