About Me.

Navarasu in a grey blazer, smiling

The Architect

A Vim fanatic | Data enthusiast | Systems thinker | Founder, acquired by Zoho

18+
years in IT industryin the business, in the code
27+
years of programmingFoxPro in '99 to Rust and AI agents today

I learned this industry by doing whatever the work needed, and that took me to almost every side of software: the pitch and the product, the plan and the code, the release and the night after it. Founding my own product put all of those sides on one desk.

Through all of it, one thing hasn't changed: I love the conversation that finds the real problem, and the code that solves it.

Navarasu laughing in front of a painted Ladakh mural

The Seeker

A flautist and silambam player | Samyama practitioner | Tracing the roots of village deities | Happiest on long roads and high hills

12+
years with the fluteCarnatic and film songs
17,582ft
above sea level, on a motorcycleKhardung La, Leh, Ladakh

Away from work, life has its own sides: the field and the flute, the hill and the book, the old temple and the home I designed where Chettinad meets Italy.

Rooted in the Tamil Nadu delta, my hands stay in the soil and my days follow Siddha. Tamil books hold my evenings, the roots of our village deities hold my curiosity, and every February the Velliangiri Hills test both body and faith.

Worked with

  • Ideas2IT
  • Virtusa
  • Pramati
  • Francium Tech
  • Zoho

Founded

  • VitalSoft

Acquired by Zoho

Work in the Open.

Small tools I needed, which turned out others needed too.

onedark.nvim

One Dark and Light colour scheme for Neovim, written in Lua, with five colour variants.

Lua2,007 stars179 forks
LuaRocksv1.0.3

serverless-ruby-layer

A Serverless plugin that deploys gems from a Gemfile to an AWS Lambda layer.

JavaScript73 stars12 forks
npmv1.7.0

opencv-log

A visual logger for debugging, logging and testing image-processing code built on OpenCV.

Python42 stars11 forks
PyPIv1.4.0

On stage

Navarasu presenting on the RubyConf India 2022 stage
RubyConf India 2022 · Pune

Data Analytics in Ruby/Rails way

Analytics usually means Python, R or Spark. Through a platform we built and ran in production, I showed how a Rails team can crawl, process and search data at scale with the Ruby it already knows.

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Small lessons from real builds, written down along the way.

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Contact Me.

Two ways in, depending on why you're here.

Let's build something.

I help teams design systems, untangle platforms and build with AI, from the first whiteboard sketch to production. Consultant or full-time, tell me where you're stuck, and I'll tell you honestly if I'm the right fit.

Email
nova@navarasu.com
Based in
Tamil Nadu, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Open to
Remote consulting and full-time architect roles
Elsewhere

Write to me

I read every message and reply to most within a couple of days.