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Senior Developer Relations Advocate, APJ at ClickHouse · Bengaluru
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I lead developer engagement across Asia-Pacific and Japan at ClickHouse. The job is to make real-time analytics feel obvious to the people who build with it. The rest of the time I write, speak, and ship.
Local to Global is the whole method. A student community in a new city. A meetup that outgrows the room. An itch that becomes a product someone else needed too.
| 10+ yrs DevRel & ecosystems |
9 / 12 apps shipped in 2026 |
4 books & reviews |
72 talks on the record |
Twelve months, twelve apps. Each one starts from a real itch, gets stripped to its core, and ships the same month. No PRD. No paywalls.
| 10 · Oct | Namma Mario | A Bengaluru platformer. Church Street, Cubbon Park, Silk Board. Filter kaapi instead of Super Stars. |
| 08 · Aug | Meridian | Any journey, turned into a cinematic 3D globe or 2D map. |
| 07 · Jul | Brewnchmark | A hackathon coffee-and-tea reveal, dressed as a SQL terminal. |
| 06 · Jun | Soothr | Offline white noise for 3 AM, built for one hand. |
| 05 · May | OweNow | Split a trip without becoming the group accountant. |
| 04 · Apr | ShowFlix | Google Drive, browsed like a screening room. |
| 03 · Mar | QRgen | Styled QR codes. No account, no paywall. |
| 02 · Feb | SyncHorizon | Timezones, with daylight saving already handled. |
| 01 · Jan | Currency Plus | Every currency at once, updating as you type. |
The full year is at meetsid.dev/mvb-2026. Source for a few of them: Meridian, Soothr, Currency Plus.
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Author, with Ravindranatha Anthapu · Packt · June 2025 LLM-driven search and recommendations with Haystack, LangChain4j, and Spring AI. How to make a model answer from a graph instead of a guess. |
Technical reviewer on three more:
Python for Psychology, Social Sciences, and Education Apress · 2026 |
Revolutionizing Youth Mental Health with Ethical AI Apress · 2025 |
Graph Data Science with Python and Neo4j Orange AVA · 2024 |
- The Model Gets the Headlines. The Database Wins the Race. — why the model is the poster and the database is the result.
- What a Developer Relations Career Actually Looks Like — a candid conversation with Polaris Tech Stories.
- Polyglot Persistence — Not Just an Exotic Idea Anymore — DataQuest, on specialized databases going mainstream.
- DevRel Doesn't Scale by Accident — three and a half years building Neo4j across APAC.
- Boundary Graph: the IPL, through a graph — ball-by-ball cricket as a knowledge graph.
72 talks on real-time analytics, GraphRAG, generative AI, and what it actually takes to grow a developer ecosystem. Recordings are on this playlist. The full list, including what's next, is on meetsid.dev/talks.
| Boundary Graph | IPL analytics on a Neo4j knowledge graph. Nuxt, FastAPI, ball by ball. |
| Mahabharata | The epic, made queryable. A graph, plus a GenAI guide through it. |
| GraphRAG agents | Multi-agent research with Google ADK, Neo4j, and MCP. |
Hands-on versions of the same ideas live as codelabs.
A decade of ecosystems, in one place
ClickHouse — Senior Developer Relations Advocate, APJ · 2026–
Community, advocacy, and technical storytelling for real-time analytics across Asia-Pacific and Japan.
Neo4j — Developer Relations Lead, APAC · 2022–2026
Nine chapters. A GenAI-first community motion. 165% meetup growth and 200%+ community growth, and the bridge between APAC developers and product.
Open Financial Technologies — Lead, Developer Relations and Business Strategy · 2021–2022
India's first developer community around fintech and embedded finance, built for Zwitch.
Google — Program Manager · 2019–2021
270+ Developer Student Clubs across 120+ cities. Build for Digital India with MeitY. TensorFlow User Groups across the country.
Before that, ecosystem programs at Beahead, and the Java SDK at IBM.
ClickHouse · SQL & real-time OLAP · Neo4j · GraphRAG · GenAI & agents · Python · LangChain · Haystack · Google Cloud · AWS · Azure · TypeScript
Former Google Developer Expert, AI/ML · ACM Distinguished Speaker · Neo4j Certified Professional · CMX Community Industry Awards, 2021 Global Finalist · Advisory Board, UPES School of Computer Science
Speaking invitations, ecosystem collaborations, advisory, or a proper argument about databases.
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Bridging local innovations to global opportunities.