Engineer by mind, storyteller by soul
I’m Gaurang Karia, an engineer and writer building a library for curious builders.
I’ve been an engineer for twenty years. This is where I keep notes on AI, on building, and on the things I’m learning: essays, illustrated stories, guides and the odd experiment.
Most people pick a lane: technical or creative. I’ve spent twenty years proving they’re the same lane.
The day job
I started in 2006, building equity trading platforms. That work took me from Mumbai to New York to London, where I’m now a Principal Software Engineer in capital markets.
Twenty years in, I still think the best engineering comes from continuous learning and sharing what you find.
Building in the open
- vibe-learn: a learning companion for the vibe coding era. It watches Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Grok Build sessions and helps you understand what was built, why and how. Its first big community contribution, GitHub Copilot CLI support, came from Andrea on the GitHub team.
- AI Engineer World’s Fair Atlas: an independent field guide to the public talks from the 2026 World’s Fair.
- GB Road Signs Library: a searchable reference to 963 Great Britain road signs.
Everything I build in public lives on GitHub.
What you’ll find here
- Essays in the Reading Room: longer pieces on AI, engineering and culture.
- Visual Stories, starting with The Story of ChatGPT.
- Guides: living research you can work through at your desk.
- Field Notes: the Weekly Commit and notes from the podcast.
Creative writing
Creative writing is how I turn technical ideas into stories people can feel and remember. I completed Getting Started in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education.
Perfect for: developers who read novels, designers fascinated by systems, product people who quote Pixar, and anyone who believes creativity and engineering aren’t opposites.
Follow along
Slow down. Think deeply. Build with intention.