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Engineer turned author — I built the software that designs semiconductors, then co-wrote the book on who controls them.
The arc, in three rings
Core · The Build
Built the software that designs semiconductors.
CAD automation that turns EDA tools — Synopsys, Cadence — into repeatable chip-design flows. Where I learned how chips are actually made: the fluency everything since has been built on.
The full background →Middle ring · The Control
Co-wrote the book on who controls them.
When the Chips Are Down — why the hardest technology in the world to make is the one everyone is fighting to control. A #1 bestseller in International Relations on Amazon India.
Read about the book →Outer ring · The System
Where technology, government & capital meet.
At the Miami–Dade Innovation Authority, a public-sector venture group, I decide what’s worth building — taking a problem a city department can’t articulate, framing it into a bet a startup can deliver, and running the pilot that proves it — across the airport, seaport and transit.
What I do now →Featured in — a combined audience in the hundreds of millions
A book on the geopolitics of the semiconductor industry — why the hardest technology in the world to make is also the one everyone is fighting to control, and what that contest means for the countries trying to build their way into it.
I wrote it from inside the subject. I’d spent years building the tools that design chips before I ever wrote a word about the politics of them, so the book isn’t a survey from the outside — it’s the history, the economics, and the power struggle told by someone who knows how the thing is actually made.
Co-authored with Pranay Kotasthane in association with the Takshashila Institution, one of India’s leading think tanks.
“An excellent framework to understand the past, present and future of the geopolitics of semiconductors. The book explains why some countries have done relatively better than others, and it has learnings for technologists, geopolitical analysts and policymakers alike.”
Nandan Nilekani Co-founder, Infosys · Founding Chairman, UIDAI (Aadhaar)
I work at the Miami–Dade Innovation Authority, a public-sector venture group that backs startups and puts them to work on the problems of running a major city — its airport, its seaport, its transit.
My job runs the full arc: take a problem a government department can’t articulate, frame it into something worth betting on — what’s in scope, what success looks like, which startup can actually deliver it — and then run the pilot through deployment, across twenty-plus programs at a time.
I build software now by directing AI rather than writing code. My current project, Wibblee, is a CRM and analytics tool for accountants — designed and shipped end to end through AI tooling.
It’s a small product with a large implication: the work has moved from writing the thing to deciding what the thing should be. That’s the part I was always better at.
