About me

I'm Shreyansh. I build things for a living, and I'm curious for a living — those two turn out to be the same job.

Most of my day is spent taking products from zero to one: sitting with a fuzzy problem until it turns into something real that people actually use. But the instinct underneath that work — what's really going on here, beneath the noise? — doesn't clock out when I close the laptop. It follows me into how memory rewrites itself, why a habit is so hard to break, how a product spreads by feeling rather than funnel, and the quiet advances in science that never make the headlines.

This site is where I follow that instinct in public. I write to think — not to preach, not to perform expertise I don't have. Some pieces are things I've worked out; plenty are things I'm still figuring out and reasoning through out loud. It's a working record of a curious mind, not a highlight reel.

I care more about the question than the credential. If you're the kind of person who also can't stop asking "but why does that work?" — you'll feel at home here.

Role

Senior Product Manager, Cinequest Inc. (San Jose, CA) — sister creator platform Creatics

Based in

San Francisco, CA

Focus

0→1 consumer & AI products, growth & retention, product strategy

Education

M.Eng. in Engineering Management, Duke University · B.Tech in Information Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology

Writing

Working Theory — essays on the neuroscience of building products, ~150 pieces and counting