Boring wins
Excitement belongs in the product, not the architecture. I choose technology your future self can debug at 2 a.m.
🏠 Bengaluru
🕐 GMT+5:30
☕ Coffee-powered
🎧 Lo-fi dev
My story
From “hello world” to production systems
I wrote my first line of HTML at 14 because I wanted a blog nobody would read. The blog never happened, but the curiosity stuck around long enough to turn into a career. Today I design and build full-stack products — from the database schema up to the pixel-perfect modal.
Most of my work sits at the seam between product and engineering. I’m the person who asks why we need a fourth microservice, who measures the interaction latency on a ₹8,000 Android phone, and who writes the migration plan before the migration is needed.
Outside of client work I maintain twelve open-source libraries, mentor two junior developers through a local bootcamp, and bake sourdough that is aggressively mediocre compared to my code.
What I believe
Four working principles
Accessible by default
Keyboard traps and 4.5:1 contrast failures are bugs, not polish items. I audit every interface I ship.
Say the hard thing
Scope creep, unrealistic timelines, unmaintainable code — I’d rather have the uncomfortable conversation in week one.
Leave a trail
Readable commits, ADRs, and runbooks. Documentation is a feature, and it’s the one clients pay for twice.
Beyond the editor
Occasionally, other things
Writing
I publish a short newsletter about web performance and team engineering. 4,200 readers, zero ads.
Mentoring
Two mentees a year through a six-month programme. I read every PR they open, even after they get hired.
Movement
Half-marathons and an unreasonable amount of chai. Movement is the only debugging tool that works on me.
Kind words
What people say
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Bhargava took a janky prototype and turned it into something our customers genuinely enjoy. He pushed back on half our feature list — and he was right.
Priya Menon
Product Lead, Nimbus
Product Lead, Nimbus
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He rewrote our billing flow in six weeks and cut failed payments by 31%. The documentation alone was worth the contract.
Carlos Téllez
CTO, Ledgerly
CTO, Ledgerly
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A rare senior engineer who explains things clearly and pairs instead of dictating. My skills improved measurably in six months.
Jonas Dev
Frontend Dev, Wavely
Frontend Dev, Wavely
Want the long version?
Skip the marketing and go straight to the code, the timeline, and the numbers.