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M.Tech · Cybersecurity
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An MVP costs anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000+ in 2026 depending on who builds it and how the scope is controlled. Here are the real market numbers, the hidden costs nobody quotes, and why I price MVPs per screen so founders know the total before a single screen is built.
·9 min read
A fractional CTO is a senior technology executive who leads your engineering part-time, typically 2 to 3 days a week, for a fraction of a full-time CTO's cost. Here's what the role actually involves, what it doesn't, and how to tell if you need one. Written by someone who does this for a living.
·8 min read
Every technical person who looked at this problem walked away. It needed Linux, MERN, DevOps, Python, AI, security, and custom protocols in one head. Here's how we built it, went from processing thousands to 500,000 assessments in an hour, the one wrong AWS line that almost sank the launch, and why competitors now keep calling.
·9 min read
Most advice on finding a technical co-founder is written by people who have never been one. I've said yes six times and no far more often. Here's what actually makes engineers commit, what founders get wrong, and when you shouldn't look for one at all.
·12 min read
The Latest In
Practical writing on building with AI agents, LLMs, and modern security, from architecture decisions and inference costs to smart contract audits and zero-trust patterns.
AI writes most of the code I ship. The 2019 junior developer role is gone and I don't hire for it. But 84% of developers use these tools and only 3% trust the output, and that gap is the job description I actually pay for now.
·5 min read
Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the AI era. If you are building with LLMs and you have not thought about this, your product has a hole in it. Here is what it is, how it works, and how to defend against it.
·10 min read
When I was doing my M.Tech in Cybersecurity, attackers were skilled but slow. That asymmetry is collapsing. Here is what AI-powered attacks actually look like, and what we built at ColadAI to fight back.
·12 min read
We spent years adding rules on top of rules to catch threats we had already seen. Then we rebuilt the detection layer with ML at ColadAI and realised we had been fighting the wrong battle the entire time.
·9 min read
You used to hire a tool. Now the tool does the hiring. I've watched founders replace entire ops workflows with a single agent. Here's what that actually looks like and what it means for what you're building.
·10 min read
The Latest In
Hard-won lessons from co-founding 6+ startups across 3 continents, on co-founder dynamics, product decisions, hiring engineers, and going from 0 to paying customers.
An MVP costs anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000+ in 2026 depending on who builds it and how the scope is controlled. Here are the real market numbers, the hidden costs nobody quotes, and why I price MVPs per screen so founders know the total before a single screen is built.
·9 min read
A fractional CTO is a senior technology executive who leads your engineering part-time, typically 2 to 3 days a week, for a fraction of a full-time CTO's cost. Here's what the role actually involves, what it doesn't, and how to tell if you need one. Written by someone who does this for a living.
·8 min read
Every technical person who looked at this problem walked away. It needed Linux, MERN, DevOps, Python, AI, security, and custom protocols in one head. Here's how we built it, went from processing thousands to 500,000 assessments in an hour, the one wrong AWS line that almost sank the launch, and why competitors now keep calling.
·9 min read
Most advice on finding a technical co-founder is written by people who have never been one. I've said yes six times and no far more often. Here's what actually makes engineers commit, what founders get wrong, and when you shouldn't look for one at all.
·12 min read
Everyone wants the success story. The failures taught me more. Here's an honest look at the startups I co-founded that didn't make it - and the simple mistakes I kept repeating.
·8 min read
The skills that make you a great engineer can quietly undermine you as a founder. Here's the trap most technical founders fall into - and how to get out of it.
·7 min read
The Latest In
Personal stories, career reflections, and the unfiltered reality of building a life in tech, from JEE ranks to founding companies across three continents.
A bad JEE rank felt like a closed door at 18. Fourteen years later, here's what actually happened - and what I'd tell my younger self about the roads that don't show up on the map.
·7 min read
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I am always looking for people building or researching in AI and Security to swap ideas with. If you have an article you want to share, a topic you want me to write about, or just want to connect and talk shop, reach out.
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