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tl;dr
Hey I’m Yatharth. A software writer in Bengaluru.
My day job is to build frontend systems on the Web. Post that, I try to make and do interesting things. Or fly about wherever my curiosity takes me.
Short history.
I studied Mechanical engineering for 4 years before I dropped out in the final paper of my final semester in 2013.
I learned to build the Web myself. And took a job at a startup in 2015. That’s when I moved to Bengaluru.
I’ve worked at both startups and scale-ups since then. Mostly remote/hybrid. Hence, I like it that way. I’m better at work when I’m able to work remotely — from my desk, at my home. Or from a nice café near me!
I started studying classical piano in 2017. Got pretty serious about it. When pandemic (covid-19) happened, I quit tech to do music full-time. Well, in hindsight, we know it didn’t turn out as expected.
I set out to build my own email service in 2021 and continued to work on that till 2024. That’s when I decided to take a job in the tech. Again.
My autistic brain.
I came to know (and understand) that I fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. That makes me do all kinds of stupid and interesting stuff — “What the heck?” to some and “pretty cool!” to others.
Here are a couple of chapters from that story of mine.
- Solved Rubik’s cube in under 2mins. (Of course I timed, duh.)
- Created and sold comics. (When all I could do was draw. I was injured!)
- Illustrated tshirts. Same era as the comics. Was the “The iPad Effect.” to be honest.
- Learned cardistry. Just because Jesse Eisenberg did that glorious, magical shuffle in the opening scene of “Now You See Me.”
Conversations with Newton and Einstein.
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PS: This website is under re-construction. And I'm still putting up bits of it, one <div> at a time.