# Abhinav Saxena - abhinav.co

## Who is Abhinav?

Abhinav Saxena is a generalist with twenty one years of experience in software engineering, product management, entrepreneurship, and engineering leadership. He has built large scale data products, payments platforms, messaging systems, platform services, e-commerce systems, logistics management systems, and social games.

## What does he write about?

Abhinav writes about technology, startups, engineering leadership, and life. Key themes include:

- **Engineering**: Microservices architecture, building MVPs, balancing speed and quality, Elixir/Phoenix, static websites
- **Leadership**: Growth debt, hierarchy of employee needs, peacetime vs wartime leadership, Slack etiquette
- **Startups**: Technical debt, startup-to-company transitions, narrative chasms, digital monopolies
- **Ideas**: Game theory in public systems, language learning and paradigm shifts, web3 analysis, ethics

## Active projects

- **vrksh** (vrk.sh) - Unix tools for the agent era
- **plugdash.dev** - Plugins for EmDash sites
- **Moonwalk** - A fast and minimalist Jekyll blog theme with clean dark mode
- **httplex** - A simple HTTP request and response service
- **addy** - Git-driven SSH access control for small teams
- **Chhoti Si Kahani** (chhotisikahani.com) - Bite-sized stories in Hindi

## Technical details

- Site built with Jekyll using the Moonwalk theme
- Hosted as a static site
- Content in Markdown with YAML front matter
- Dark mode by default with light/dark toggle
- Three content collections: blog posts, notes, and Hindi stories (csks)

## Key URLs

- Homepage: https://www.abhinav.co
- Blog: https://www.abhinav.co/blog
- Projects: https://www.abhinav.co/projects
- Notes: https://www.abhinav.co/notes
- About: https://www.abhinav.co/about
- GitHub: https://github.com/abhinavs
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/abhinav
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavs