Hi, I'm Ananth.
I'm a forward deployed engineer based in India. I work inside my clients' teams, find the work AI should be doing, and ship it into their real systems. I also build mobile and web apps, and make videos about tech, travel and two wheels.
I've been making things for screens for a long time. I started my YouTube channel in 2017, built games in Unity and Unreal, and then moved on to apps and web platforms for real clients, like the membership and events platform behind Periopman, a UK medical society.
Today most of my work is AI. Not demos, but agents and automations that run inside a business every day, with the checks, monitoring and handover that make them safe to rely on. That's what a forward deployed engineer does, and it's the part of the job I enjoy most: being close to the people doing the work, and leaving them with something that keeps working after I've gone.
Away from the keyboard I'm usually out on my motorcycle with a camera or two. The rides, the hills and the gear end up on my YouTube channel.
How I work
- Work where the work happens
- I sit with the people who do the job, because that's where the useful problems are.
- Ship every week
- Something real goes live each week, so we learn from use, not from slides.
- Hand it over
- You get the code, the docs and the know-how. Nothing depends on me to keep running.
Toolbox
- AI
- ClaudeOpenAI GPTGeminiMCPRAGEvals
- Mobile
- SwiftSwiftUIKotlinJetpack Compose
- Web
- TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsTailwind CSS
- Cloud
- AWSCloudflareCI/CD
- Games
- UnityUnreal Engine
Have work that AI should be doing?
Tell me about the job and who does it today. I'll reply with how I'd approach it.