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A living digital garden where engineering, Telugu poetry, life systems, and curiosity coexist — by Avinash Adluri.
I build with code, think with clarity, and write with intensity.
I've never been able to live as just one thing. I'm an engineer, a thinker, a builder, a Telugu writer, a photographer, a product maker, and someone constantly trying to design a better life system. Life is not divided into careers, hobbies, and interests — it's one connected operating system where code, health, money, creativity, culture, and curiosity all influence each other.
This is the home for that system.
Explore the System
Full-stack TypeScript, design systems, Next.js, Node.js, observability, and DevOps. Real patterns from shipping at Atlassian, Weel, and my own products.
Applied AI engineering — Claude Code, Cursor, Vercel AI SDK, local Llama models, agents, and production AI patterns.
Habits, automations, and workflows that reduce chaos. How I design a sustainable system for living — not just working.
Cashflow systems, investment thinking, and immigrant wealth-building. Finance as freedom, not just numbers.
14 guides on migration, healthcare, cost of living, visas, banking, and building a meaningful life in a new country.
What I read and how it shapes my systems. Annotated notes with personal takeaways and practical applications.
Mental models and decision-making tools. First principles, inversion, pre-mortems, and 5 more frameworks I use daily.
Thinki.sh, MetaLabs, Groc, PromptLib, GlucosePro — where ideas become working products.
The Creative Core
My Telugu poetry, stories, and introspective writing. Where silence becomes language. Where feeling becomes form.
My story — not as a resume, but as a human narrative. Engineer. Writer. Migrant. Father. Student of life.
From iPhone snapshots to a Sony A6400 — chasing light, telling stories through frames, and learning to see differently. Follow the journey on @slashaviLens.
Start Here
Not sure where to begin? Pick your path:
Start with Architecture Patterns for frontend systems, then explore How I Code with AI for the AI workflow shift. If you're thinking about career growth, Future of IT Jobs in the Age of AI is a must-read.
The Australia Basics guide is the starting point — it covers geography, culture, and essential facts. From there, branch into Visa & Immigration, Cost of Living, or Job Market depending on where you are in your journey.
Begin with Workflows for my daily operating system, then see Automations for the n8n pipelines that run it. For the philosophy behind it, read Reframe Your Brain and Atomic Habits.
Start with the Nishabdham intro for the philosophy, then read Naa Gudi — the first published story. For how creativity and engineering connect, Steal Like an Artist explains my remix approach.
Start with /avi Through a Lens for the philosophy, then read From iPhone to Sony for the full story. My Gear covers the Sony A6400 setup, and Lessons Learned shares what I wish someone told me when I started.
Featured Reads
The 3-layer architecture powering MetaLabs and Thinki.sh UI rebuilds.
7 lessons from integrating AI into my daily engineering workflow.
How I stitch productivity rituals with n8n to keep family logistics sane.
How I Build
The tech behind this site and my daily stack:
| Layer | Tools |
|---|---|
| Frontend | TypeScript, React, Next.js (App Router + RSC), Tailwind |
| Backend | Node.js, Express, NestJS, tRPC, Prisma, PostgreSQL |
| Design Systems | Radix, Storybook, design tokens, component APIs at scale |
| Applied AI | Claude Code, Cursor, Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI SDK, Ollama, Llama |
| Infra | Vercel, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Turborepo |
| Monitoring | Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, custom SLO dashboards |
Want the full breakdown? See Tech Stack Behind My Blog and Tools & Setup.
Right Now
A snapshot — see the full /now page for details.
- Building PromptLib v3 with persona-specific guardrails
- Prototyping the Agent Ops Kit for composable AI agents
- Expanding Nishabdham with new Telugu short stories
- Shooting with the Sony A6400 — building toward a garage studio for portraits and product photography
- Reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Staff engineering at Weel — full-stack TypeScript, design systems, and applied AI
Where TypeScript and Telugu poetry coexist. Where AI meets introspection. Where light meets lens. Where systems meet soul.
Last refreshed: February 2026