Field notes · for the curious
What it is like when your code stops being homework
Career notes, production stories, and build logs from real-world engineering. Startups, buses, APIs that move under you, product mistakes, and practical fixes. Not the polished LinkedIn version, the messy useful bits.
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- Career
From FAYM Co to Travel LYKKE, what production taught me
After FAYM Co: website revamps, Django templates, API contracts, TanStack, Storybook, and the gap between school projects and travel tech that ships.
CareerInternshipTravelFrontend - Build Log
From Shared Ritual to Play Store: The Story of Water Timeout
How a personal habit between friends turned into a beautifully designed hydration app that focuses on what matters: consistency over complexity.
ProductMobileOpen SourceHealth - Build Log
I tried PWA first, then moved Money on Track to Expo
How a simple debt-tracking idea became a real product lesson: PWA launch pain, practical user habits, and why offline-first mobile won.
ProductMobilePWAExpo - Travel
The travel industry might not be as small as you think
Notes from SATTE 2026 at Travel LYKKE: hotels, wildlife, visa, payments, regional storytelling, and how the same hall holds DMCs and giants like MakeMyTrip and Yatra.
TravelIndustryTravel LYKKE - Career
Two months at FAYM Co, my first internship
Small team, mobile-first product, a split editor UI, Streamlit and WhatsApp prototypes, analytics work with the CTO, and what I learned when pace and expectations collided with college.
CareerInternshipStartupFrontend