laksh sadhwani

right now i’m building two things. vessel is a keyboard-driven tui for apple’s native mac containers. writ is for the other half of my day: agents work under a writ, and the tool checks whether they stayed inside it, then shows you only the drift. i’ve also built and open-sourced ten smaller tools, each one replacing a paid developer service, listed further down the page. all twelve are open source. if any of them sound interesting, come break them.

i’m also teaching myself cuda and gpu engineering, going a layer down from the services i’ve spent my career on, to where the arithmetic actually happens. i am very much a beginner at it and enjoying that.

i read a lot of philosophy, and i keep a running file of lines i don’t want to forget. the one i come back to most:

if your intentions are pure, not driven by ego, and if you truly want to do something great, you must accept that you may never get to see just how important you may become.

before this i led agentic engineering at snabbit, where i built the ai agents that carried work across our software development lifecycle: ticket intake, doc retrieval, pr review, even android and ios gui testing.

and before that, almost four years at razorpay writing go. i owned merchant experience end to end, onboarding a merchant through to getting them activated, and built the proxy that admin operations ran through.

i studied material science, with a computer science minor, at nit karnataka. still an unusual way to end up writing go for a living, and yet.

i also advise mounterra innovations on ai and technical direction. they’re a digital product development agency building ai-powered platforms, web and mobile apps, and saas products for startups and industrial companies.

some things i believe

• health is wealth. everything else compounds off it.
• be kind to yourself, and to your curiosity.
• the more specific you are, the more visible you become. being legible isn’t about fitting in, it’s about sending a clear enough signal that the right people can find you.
• it wasn’t the pursuit of happiness, it was the happiness in the pursuit.

and some i’ve borrowed, with thanks:

• the meaning of life is to locally reverse entropy. (elon musk, on twitter. eden chan wrote the essay that made it stick for me.)
• work with the best people you can find, on the highest-impact thing you can find. (eden chan)
• where you get your dopamine is predictive of your behaviour. (nat friedman, via eden chan)
• the point of doing a startup is to build something you can’t buy. (balaji srinivasan, via eden chan)

things i did

• kaleido, ten webgl micro-experiences built end to end with three.js - paste real data in, get a real 3d image out (live)
• vessel, a keyboard-driven tui for apple’s native mac containers
• writ, which shows you where an agent drifted outside its writ

things i shipped, that replace a paid service

• escalight, self-hosted on-call escalation and paging, one binary and one sqlite file
• pageflag, click anything on a live page, leave a comment, triage it in a dashboard
• changeflare, an embeddable ‘what’s new’ widget with an unread badge and real analytics
• pilestack, stacked pull-request review, without the saas
• diffboard, visual regression testing with a review dashboard
• clipfolio, business video hosting with retention curves and lead capture
• perfnest, scheduled lighthouse runs with performance budgets and alerting
• seatkey, license-key issuance and activation for indie software
• leakboard, self-hosted secret scanning across your github org
• shufflebase, schema-aware synthetic test data and masking for postgres and mysql

misc

• github
• x
• linkedin
• email

the layout of this page is lifted from benjamin f spector, and the idea of listing what you believe is from eden chan. both are worth your time.