--- title: About url: https://www.abhinav.co/about author: Abhinav Saxena --- # About

About

I'm a generalist with interest in entrepreneurship, software engineering, poetry, social sciences, emerging business models and emerging markets. ## A few more things about me - I grew up in [Narsinghgarh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narsinghgarh,_Rajgarh), a beautiful little town in Madhya Pradesh, India. - In my twenty one years of engineering experience, I have developed large scale data products, social networks, payments platforms, messaging systems, platform services, e-commerce systems, logistics management systems and social games. - I can code in more than ten programming languages, and have written production code in eight of them. Currently, my language of choice is Elixir, a functional programming language similar to Ruby in syntax built on top of the Erlang VM. - I love building tools and APIs for developers, checkout my publicly available work at [abhinav.co](/). - I am a big [Gulzar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulzar) fan, and I believe he is one of the greatest poets alive. - I love adrak chai and filter coffee. ## A few things I can't do - I can't multi-task, I am extremely poor at it. - I can't handle office politics, I tend to wither in such environments. - I can't speak jargons - I don't sound sophisticated either. - I can't play video games - tried as a kid, gave up pretty quickly. - I can't get up early morning - well, I can if needed but I don't like to. ## A few quotes I keep around > A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. > > - Robert Heinlein > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. > > - George Bernard Shaw > मिट्टी का तन, मस्ती का मन, क्षण भर जीवन - मेरा परिचय > > A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that is me. > > - Harivansh Rai Bachchan > Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. > > - Calvin --- This is a personal site. The views here are mine, not my employer's.