About

I'm Pavan, a software engineer based in Bengaluru. I work on the parts of software that most people never see — the geometry kernel, the worker thread, the threshold below which a model should refuse to speak. I'm drawn to systems where the constraints are real and the feedback is honest.

At Fracktal Works, I help build a 3D CAD platform that runs in the browser. My day-to-day is GPU-accelerated rendering, CSG booleans on real-world meshes, decimation pipelines that turn millions of triangles into something a laptop can hold, and the Web Worker plumbing that keeps it all interactive. The work sits at the line between fast enough and impossible, which is where I like to be.

What I care about, technically: ownership over sharing, calibrated confidence over fluency, and tools that make the underlying difficulty of a problem visible rather than hidden. I write code as if a stranger will read it — because, eventually, I will be that stranger.

I'm also a participant in Y Combinator's Startup School (2026 cohort), where I'm working through customer discovery and MVP planning for ideas at the intersection of AI tooling and developer infrastructure. Execution-first, not theoretical.