About
Before I had realized it, I had developed a playbook for marketing the project I worked on, gathering user feedback in Discord channels and on Reddit, before iterating on it, and re-running the feedback loop. This helped me build a penchant for talking to developer folks naturally, gaining their trust with my authenticity, and developing a presence for my work.
I've been doing this ever since teaching myself to program in 2021. I took my projects to Reddit, paid attention to how developers responded, and iterated. One of them, spoti-dl, went on to receive 45,000+ PyPI downloads and 70+ GitHub stars. This was over the course of a few years, and a couple iterations. The second iteration involved rewriting the project's hot loop in Rust, and writing about the same, and getting that write-up featured in a popular newsletter.
And I still thrive on that instinct to go under the hood the projects I interact with, build something useful and interesting of my own, and then spark a discussion around it.
Today, I work at the intersection of growth, DevRel, and technical content at SigNoz (YC W21), an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform. I create the kind of technical content I want to read myself: grounded in working code, real developer problems, and enough depth to survive scrutiny from the communities it is written for.
Before DevRel, I worked as a software engineer. Python was the first language I learnt and is still the one I reach for most, though Rust has led me down some of my favourite technical rabbit holes, from FFI and concurrency to instrumentation. I also spend a lot of time on Reddit and Hacker News, following nuanced technical discussions and learning what developers actually struggle with.
Selected work
Some things I've built, written, and helped move upstream.
OpenTelemetry contributions
open source · 2026
I became an OpenTelemetry member after contributing across six repositories through the End User and Contributor Experience SIGs, working on documentation, community development, and upstream content.
Interoperability survey
research · publication
I helped turn raw responses into the 2026 interoperability survey, published by both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. The analysis found that ease of use rose from 3.1 to 3.6, while the share finding the projects hard to use together fell from 29% to 10%.
OpenTelemetry writing
technical content · community
At SigNoz, I write deep OpenTelemetry guides grounded in working demos. My Rust guide reached #17 on Hacker News, while my broader content work drove 15,000+ unique visitors from non-search channels in six months.
spoti-dl
build in public · Python and Rust
The first project I took seriously, iterated on in public, and used to learn Rust. The CLI has crossed 45,000 PyPI downloads and 70 GitHub stars.
Interests
Before pivoting to tech, I was learning Spanish and French. It has been more than two years since I actively studied either, but Spanish music is still in regular rotation.
Reading is a big passion of mine, and I frequently disappear into long reading sessions. I caught up with A Song of Ice and Fire some time ago (call me when The Winds of Winter arrives), and recently finished the first three books in Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. It is a brilliant series, but it still does not top the pacing and sense of wonder of Mistborn era one, IMO.
On the gaming side, I have poured 5,000+ hours into Path of Exile across Steam and the standalone launcher. I never played it on a genuinely good PC until recently; the mechanics are the same, but it feels like a different world. I also play Hollow Knight: Silksong on and off, alternating between admiring its beauty and atmosphere and raging at the challenge.
I am also into audio gear. My desk has Creative Pebble V3 speakers, while Kefine Klean IEMs handle late-night music and evening walks. Both have been excellent value. The rest of the setup is an M1 MacBook Air (16 GB + 256 GB), a BenQ 24-inch monitor, and an RK84 V2 keyboard with brown switches. It all works perfectly well, which has done very little to stop me wanting to upgrade every part of it :P