About

A story in progress, written between commits and coffee.

By day I design and build interfaces for AI products at Strivelabs. Off the clock, it looks something like this. Currently compiling curiosity…

The journey so far

Six stops, one very long commit log.

newest first, like git log

  1. Nov 2024 – now

    Founding Engineer · Design Engineering

    Now: building the thing this site keeps talking about.

  2. Aug 2021 – Oct 2024

    Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer

    Owned the monorepo behind the Freshworks Marketplace — untangled years of tech debt and pushed it to 100% accessible.

  3. Sep 2020 – Aug 2021

    Software Engineer

    Joined early enough to build things from scratch: location services, a Next.js PWA, even a POS console.

  4. Dec 2019 – Aug 2020

    Engineering InternMember of Technical Staff, Frontend

    SSO, an Autodesk BIM integration, and a full site revamp — my first taste of shipping full-time.

  5. Jul – Oct 2019

    Frontend Engineer

    Speed-ran performance fixes on an AI recommendation engine, then built its dashboard in React.

  6. Dec 2018 – Feb 2019

    Marketplace Apps Developer

    Cut my teeth building marketplace extensions for LinkedIn, Wrike & GrooveHQ — in Zoho Deluge, of all things.

Little wins

The bits I'd put on a laptop sticker.

  • Freshworks · 2022

    Blog-a-thon champion

    Won Freshworks' Developer Platform Blog-a-thon with a post on localising marketplace apps with Crayons.

    Read the winning post

  • Zoho Cliq · 2018 & 2019

    Two-time Cliqtrix hacker

    Honorable mention in '18 — the contest's very first year — then winner in '19.

    '18 winners'19 winners

Off the clock

Thenga’s day off.

  1. Music, mostly on six strings

    I'm into music and love to play guitar. Covers land on Instagram now and then.

  2. Slow travel

    Not the rush-to-destinations kind. I stay until a place sinks in — no plans, just vibes, people, culture, and a lot of photographs to carry home.

    • More trips on @mari.gameo

  3. Cooking, almost every day

    I love home-cooked food, so I cook most days — and keep trying new dishes.

    • Not on Instagram. Mostly eaten before the photo.

  4. Poetry, in Tamil

    I pen down kavithai, mostly in Tamil.

    • More kavithai on @ullunarvu.writes

  5. Photographs that get to live

    I hate letting travel photographs die on my phone, so the keepers get curated here.

    • More frames on @mari.fstop