The beginning
I was born in Kenya, of Indian heritage. We moved to England when I was small, and then to the United States in my early teens. By the time I started high school I had three accents and a permanent suspicion that "home" was something you build, not something you find.
A decade on the F-35 floor
I joined Lockheed Martin in 2008 and stayed for ten years. Most of that time was on the Joint Strike Fighter's Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), tracking the parts and prognostics of every F-35 in service. I started as a senior software engineer and ended up managing a team of 10-14 engineers, briefing Generals and Colonels on the software we shipped, and earning my second U.S. patent along the way.
Saathratri and open source
In 2018 I went independent. I've spent the last eight years building Saathratri — a 30+ microservice JHipster 9 platform with Spring Boot, Angular Module Federation microfrontends, PostgreSQL with pgvector for AI semantic search, Apache Cassandra with SAI/ANN, and Model Context Protocol so LLM agents can read platform data and trigger tools natively.
In parallel, I author two open-source JHipster blueprints on npm: generator-jhipster-ai-postgresql teaches JHipster how to do AI semantic search with pgvector. generator-jhipster-cassandra teaches it Cassandra with composite keys and ANN vector search.
The other side of the desk
I'm a 20% shareholder in a family hospitality portfolio — an 88-unit Travelodge, a 123-unit Quality Inn, two gas stations. I run the IT, the SEO, the OTA content, the Power Automate flows that download statements at 3am, and the QR-code landing pages that let guests get help without picking up a phone. It is the most concrete reminder I get that software is in service of humans.
What I work on quietly
Mindset matters as much as architecture. I'm a Certified Hotel Administrator (AHLA, 2018), a graduate of the Landmark Curriculum for Living, and a Conscious Parenting Method certified practitioner. The best architectural decisions I've made came from a quiet mind, not a clever one.
Education
- M.S., Computer Science — Drexel University (2014)
- M.B.A. — University of Phoenix (2009)
- B.S., Computer Science — Florida International University, Honors College (2002)
Patents & publications
- US 9,734,001 — Efficient Health Management, Diagnosis and Prognosis of a Machine
- US 2006/0036954 — Web Services Based Portlet Catalog
- "An Open Architecture for Enabling CBM/PHM Capabilities in Ground Vehicles," IEEE IC-PHM (2012)