Hi, I'm Sumit
Chief Technology Officer at Ace Designers Limited in Bengaluru. 25+ years of turnkey engineering and new product development, from pharmaceuticals to breweries. Here I write about what I learn along the way.
Writing
Many years ago, in an earlier role, I saw two teams in the same company work against each other for almost a year. Both teams had good people. Nobody was doing it on purpose. Each team was chasing its own…
Read articleA few weeks before IMTEX, under real delivery pressure, three books help me stay calm and keep asking the right questions.
Read article20 minutes from idea to treadmill with Claude Code. Then 8 days of polish, context engineering, and cleaning up after the AI.
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About
I'm Chief Technology Officer at Ace Designers Limited in Bengaluru. Over 25 years I've led turnkey engineering projects and new product development across industries, from pharmaceutical processing equipment to breweries.
This blog is where I share what I have learned along the way, in the hope of building a community that shares a passion for learning and innovation.
Bookshelf
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
The Art of Inquiry: Meditations on Living Wisdom (Philosophical Meditations Book 1)
Heretics of Dune (Dune #5)
God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
The Shortest History of Germany
Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics
