Arjun
Krishna

I write code for a living, but I’ve never thought of programming as only my job. Every now and then I end up back in my editor after work, building something for myself — usually to find out whether I can.

It started at Kristu Jyoti College, where I did my BCA and MCA. The college’s innovation centre, Inovus Labs, had a small IoT workspace full of development boards, sensors and half-finished projects. I understood almost none of it, which is exactly why I kept going back. A few fried boards and popped capacitors later, I was hooked. I still mentor there.

These days I’m a senior software engineer at Johnson & Johnson, working on systems for product labelling. Before that I spent two and a half years at Airtory, building ad platforms for social media and connected TV.

The first website I made was a coming-soon page with a wallpaper of two horses and the Gilroy font. I don’t remember a line of its code, but I remember how it felt to see it appear in the browser. I use AI every day and wouldn’t give it up — but I miss the struggle it replaced, and that is what I write about most.

• Nodrix — an IoT platform that runs in your own Cloudflare account. The idea waited years for me to be able to build it.
• Reelity — paste a product pitch and a link, and get a short vertical video, rendered in the browser.
• BitNerve — an AI trading engine that lets Claude trade crypto futures through the Model Context Protocol, and records every decision it makes.
• More on the projects page.

I can be reached at mail@arjunkrishna.dev, and I'm on GitHub, LinkedIn, X, Bluesky and Tangled.