About
I’m Vikram. I’ve built software for close to 20 years as a software engineer, tech lead, engineering manager, and startup executive.
I consult with early-stage companies. I also created and run citymeetings.nyc.
You can find me on Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Currently
- I am building citymeetings.nyc, writing its newsletter, talking about it at conferences, and sharing notes with interested city agencies, newsrooms, and civic hackers.
- I am exploring commercial ideas related to capabilities I’m building for citymeetings.nyc.
- I am consulting with a limited number of part-time clients.
Previously
- Aside from a stint at Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio in Seattle, I’ve been consulting as a Fractional/Interim CTO and Product Engineer since 2018.
- I built and grew the engineering org as VP Engineering at Harry’s, where I joined pre-launch as the 7th employee.
- I built support and operations tools for Hadoop as an early employee at Cloudera, a now-public company that was one of the first to commercialize Hadoop.
- I built capabilities for our data platform as an early employee at Meebo, a startup that, for a short time in the early 2010’s, was one of the largest ad networks in the US.
- I studied Computer Science at Stanford, where I took a lot of systems courses (my favorite being operating systems).
Things I’ve made
citymeetings.nyc
citymeetings.nyc turns NYC’ public proceedings into short, quick-to-skim, easy-to-share segments same-day.
The site gets over 10,000 visits a month and has 100s of daily users across NYC’s government, media, advocacy groups, lobbyists, and engaged citizens.
You can check out press mentions and podcast appearances about it here
atariemailarchive.org
Atari Email Archive is a curated showcase of emails sent at Atari from 1983 to 1992. You can read about it here or hear me talk about it on an episode of the Data is Plural podcast.
katiebcartoons.com
katiebcartoons.com is a site showcasing over 1,000 cartoons my wife has drawn over 10+ years. She is prolific and hilarious and her work shows up in my posts.
Landlubbers
Landlubbers is a goofy old school point-and-click adventure game my wife and I made in the style of Monkey Island and Thimbleweed Park.
Landlubbers is about an executive assistant whose annoying boss makes her do pointless things.