Hi, I'm Vaibhav
I'm a software engineer and data scientist, currently building things and tracking my journey. I split my time between coding, analyzing data, and occasionally writing about both.
Over the years I've jumped between triathlons, handstands, chess, tennis, movie making, and way too much gourmet tea. These days my main hobby is spending time with my kid — turns out that's the best kind of all-in.
Reading
I have built an agent that publishes a daily digest of articles and papers I find interesting.
All-time Favorite Books
Steve Jobs
Sapiens
The Fountainhead
The Sirens of Titan
The Mind Illuminated
Get in Touch
Trained in operations research at Columbia, I focused on optimization and stochastic systems — how decisions behave under uncertainty. Later, I spent over a decade at Apple Maps building large-scale data and ML systems in production.
Before Apple, I was a founding engineer at Mapsense, working directly with the founders to build the core product from the ground up. The company was a small team of about a dozen when it was acquired. That experience shaped how I think about zero-to-one systems, product clarity, and ownership.
I occasionally write on my blog and State Overflow, where I explore topics at the intersection of data, decisions, and daily life.
Open to collaborations, consulting, speaking or just a coffee chat — say hello or book a time.