I’m Keshav — a writer, builder, and digital software analyst based in Dallas, TX. At Citibank I work across product and engineering on the software behind Citi’s mortgage and fraud platforms.
I use this site to practice writing, try out engineering ideas, and keep track of the music I’m listening to.
I keep a shelf for things I’m in the middle of and a shelf for things I’ve finished. The books I return to most are the ones that changed how I see something ordinary — not the ones with the biggest claims.
I have four playlists I treat the way some people treat journals. They get added to slowly, edited rarely, and never deleted. The oldest has been growing since 2019.
This site is the longest-running thing I’ve made. The current revision draws its aesthetic from James Craig’s 1978 manual on phototypesetting — registration marks, pica rulers, captions in the margins. The chrome is the point: it tells you what you’re looking at.
My day job is as a digital software analyst at Citibank, where I split my time between product work on fraud and mortgage digital, and engineering on mortgage applications. The principle is the same as the site — strip the chart-junk, name the choices, set one decision per line.
Whatever brought you here, I’m glad you stopped by.