I start with the need, understand the people, and learn what it takes to build something useful. Sixteen years in, I’m still asking questions—and collecting stories along the way.
Now Building useful tools, exploring AI through hands-on experiments, and bringing builders together in Bengaluru.
Sometimes the best way to understand a problem is to build your way through it. Here are two things I’ve put into the world.
A Reddit engagement tool for exploring community culture, checking drafts before posting, and learning from engagement patterns.
A Chrome extension from my workbench. Try it in your browser and tell me what you notice.
InternetKatta.com — my blog on building & learning.
A builder’s perspective on guiding AI with observation, judgment, and context.
ARCHITECTURE / REAL EXPERIMENTS · 15 MIN READTesting what happens to active MCP sessions when a rolling deployment replaces a Fargate task.
BUILDING IN PRACTICE · 14 MIN READReplacing a fixed monthly service with a serverless renderer, caching, and practical AWS trade-offs.
Explore my talks, slide decks, and recordings from community meetups and conferences. Browse the collection by year and take the ideas into your own work.
I started out as an introvert. Bengaluru and the community helped me become a people person—someone who loves a good conversation, shares stories, and wants to hear yours. Meetups gave me more than a stage; they gave me people to learn with.
Explore my talks & slides ↗The best part of building together? The people you learn from.
Words from colleagues ↓Reflections from colleagues and leaders I’ve had the chance to build with.
“As a leader, I just had to tell him the purpose or a problem, and then leave it to him to deliver a solution.”
“Avinash - the Make it Happen Team player I had the pleasure of leading Avinash and he used to be my go-to-person to make things happen. As a leader, I just had to tell him the purpose or a problem, and then leave it to him to deliver a solution. He would proactively engage with the different people in the organization, define the go-to approach and then lead his team to implement the solution. Avinash stands out in his ability to work with different teams across product, operations and sales. His continuous focus on self-learning and also imparting his knowledge to his team and peers enabled us to constantly improve the team's ability to deliver success. He also is looking at continuous improvement, and and always looks at opportunities to get feedback and learning.”
“He is highly motivated, dedicated, focused, and drives the team towards the goal.”
“I got an opportunity to work with Avinash during my tenure at knab finance. I would say it is a wonderful experience working with Avinash. He is highly motivated, dedicated, focused, and drives the team towards the goal. I remember when I was stuck with understanding Git, Avinash helped me to understand which laid the stone for my development. Coming to the technical skills, he is very strong technically having skilled in python, javascript, PHP, AWS, and frontend. He is a great addition to any team and can lead team very well.”
“We worked together for almost 2 years and learnt a lot such as leadership skills, positive approach towards problem and team building activities.”
“He is great person with a vast knowledge on technology side. personally & professionally strong and goal oriented. We worked together for almost 2 years and learnt a lot such as leadership skills, positive approach towards problem and team building activities. Overall you are a legend.”
“Avinash has a fantastic blend of technical know-how and business use case understanding.”
“Avinash has a fantastic blend of technical know-how and business use case understanding. Avinash' grasp of overall technology ecosystem enables him to deliver a well-rounded solution. He is a great addition to any team and can lead a team as well.”
“Reliable and precise colleague - Avi's ideas, skills, knowledge and understanding of dependencies made projects a dream to work on.”
“Avi performed exceptionally on projects and did not fail a single time. Always on time and multi-skilled co-worker with excellent communication skills. Reliable and precise colleague - Avi's ideas, skills, knowledge and understanding of dependencies made projects a dream to work on. If you need a highly committed expert, Avi is the right person.”
“He very much sorted in the new edge technology, he could easily develop any complex application”
“He very much sorted in the new edge technology, he could easily develop any complex application”
Recommendations originally shared on avinashdalvi.com ↗. Roles are shown as originally listed.
AWS questions, practical walkthroughs, and lessons from building. A few favourites from my YouTube channel.
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TUTORIALI don’t start with the newest tool. I start with a need. Then I ask questions, understand the constraints, and figure out what to learn or try. The interesting part is finding out why something works.
PHP and AWS were my first loves. These days, I choose the tools that best fit the problem and help me ship something useful. What matters is building it well and getting it into people’s hands.
Explore my writing ↗There’s a little more to me than what I build. The kitchen, the camera, the commute, and everyday conversations have their own ways of keeping me curious.
I learned to cook a few years ago, and it became something I love. It’s one place where I give the thing in front of me my full attention—no context switching.
I experiment, trust my own taste, and see what happens. Sometimes, curiosity just needs a pan.
my taste buds do the reviewing.A roadside vegetable seller. An auto driver. Spotify still playing as the metro enters a tunnel with no internet.
I notice these things and find myself asking: how does that work? What am I missing? Observing people, small details, and everyday experiences is a habit I bring to building, too.
there’s usually a story if you look closer.
I love photography because it makes me slow down and notice. A reflection in a mirror. Light through a window. A familiar street, seen from a different angle.
It strengthens my observation and reminds me that there’s more than one way to look at something. Sometimes a small shift in perspective changes the whole story.
Photography on InstagramLeft-handed by birth. Both hands in practice.
I use both hands for everyday things. One more small detail that makes me, me.
I love trying products and giving honest, thoughtful feedback. Skip the sales pitch—tell me what problem you’re solving, who it’s for, and why it matters.
If it solves a problem I care about, I’ll try it, share what I notice, and tell you what could be better. And when I believe in what you’re building, I’m happy to become an advocate.
