Hello, I’m Kapil.
I’m a tech leader based in Germany. I share thoughts, learnings, mistakes, and experiments from helping organisations and people find their own answers and unleash their potential.
A little more about me
My newest adventure came with lots of changes: from working in an enterprise-y setup to joining a startup, from leading a globally distributed setup of almost 200 people to being one of the 4 devs, and from dabbling in AI-assisted tools and the agentic ecosystem to being at the bleeding edge of it. This blog post records my impressions from the first two weeks of this adventure.
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