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 at Lockheed Martin
I joined Lockheed Martin in 2008 and stayed for ten years, working across defense programs — the Joint Strike Fighter's Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) architecture team, Army condition-based-maintenance prognostics, the National Cyber Range, and more. I started as a senior software engineer and ended as a Software Engineering Associate Manager, leading a team of 10–14 engineers and briefing Generals and Colonels on the logistics and maintenance 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 three 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. generator-jhipster-orchestrator composes the two into a single generator that produces a complete multi-database microservices platform from one JDL.
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 automated back-office and front-desk operations — accounting included, statements downloading themselves 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)