the last two years

What I've been building

I run Thinvent, where we design and make computers in Goa. In a small company you end up doing a bit of everything, so I've had a hand in the hardware and its design, the brand and the website, the patents, and most of the software that runs the business. Here is some of it.

Code, month by month commits cumulative lines of code

Hardware I've shipped

Thinvent Micro 6 Pro — **Micro 6 Pro** mini PC

Nov 2024

Launched the IPC industrial PC product line

It was our first step into industrial-grade computing, a harder and higher-value category than the thin clients we started with. It has since grown into a small family of models.

Dec 2025

Launched the IPC3 rugged industrial computer

It built on the IPC line from a year earlier, more iteration than a one-off launch.

Dec 2025

Started producing an own-brand mechanical keyboard

We later brought its assembly in-house as well.

Jun 2026

Designing a panel PC line

I'm designing a new panel PC line, the next hardware category after the industrial PCs, mini PCs and thin clients.

Apr 2026

Built a universal product configurator

Added a web page where customers can pick and match compatible computer parts interactively, expanded from just the IPC line to the whole catalog.

Design, brand and patents

Aug 2025

Kicked off a brand refresh

I did the creative direction myself. It set up the website relaunch that came a few weeks later.

Oct 2025

Relaunched the company website, self-built

It shipped right after the brand refresh, so the new look and the new site landed together.

Mar 2025

Ran product photoshoots for new device launches

I organised the product photography for a few new devices, including an all-in-one PC, fitting the shoots around the production schedule.

Sep 2025

Began filing design patents for hardware enclosures

It was our first real attempt at protecting the mechanical design of our own hardware. I wrote the technical descriptions and did the prior-art reading myself.

Jan 2026

First design patent granted

The Indian Patent Office granted our first design registration, for a computing-device enclosure, the first of several over the following months.

see the certificates →

Jul 2026

Design patent portfolio kept growing

By mid-2026 we had several design patents granted for our product casings, with more still in examination. A few other founders have asked me who we used.

see the certificates →

Software I've written

Apr 2026

Built a factory floor management system

This is a manufacturing execution system built from scratch: a blueprint editor for tools, parts and assembly steps, a workstation interface with mistake-proofing checks that stop an operator from using the wrong part, and a live dashboard including a TV view for the factory floor. It ties together barcode scanning, a step-by-step state machine, and a real-time database to replace paper-based assembly tracking.

Feb 2026

Rebuilt the search engine on AWS Valkey

The old search setup was hitting memory limits in production. Rather than patch around it, the fix was a proper migration to a managed, shared caching layer, then systematically moving product search, pricing, sitemaps, analytics dashboards and more onto it so the whole site got faster and more stable at once, not just the search box.

Nov 2025

Launched a live chat system on the website

This meant building a live, always-on conversational layer on top of the product catalog and support ticket system, including rules for when the AI should hand off to a human, and running it safely enough that a whole later body of work went into testing it in isolation so it could not crash the main site.

Sep 2025

Added AI-powered product recommendations

The first version cached recommendations in each web server process separately, which multiplied memory use and caused repeated crashes. Getting it right meant moving the work out of the web server into a separate queue and storing results in S3 and then DynamoDB, a real lesson in why naive caching breaks under real traffic.

Apr 2026

Automated Google Ads auditing with AI

Instead of manually reviewing thousands of search terms, the system uses an AI model to classify each one as relevant, a competitor name, or plain noise, then narrows down negative keywords without accidentally blocking real customers. It also caught and reverted a case where the ad tracking code had silently drifted to the wrong account.

Nov 2025

Built a payroll and overtime system

Indian payroll has to correctly calculate PF, ESI and LWF (retirement, health insurance and welfare fund contributions) alongside overtime pay, each with its own rules. Getting the math right and catching cases where overtime pay had been silently overstating these contributions took real care, since a mistake there means either underpaying staff or filing wrong government paperwork.

Apr 2026

Started a serious test-writing push

Software that had grown for two years with few tests started getting proper coverage: mocked AWS databases so tests run without touching real data, full page-load checks, and edge cases like a 12th-generation Intel form-factor bug. The work paid for itself directly, turning up a cross-site request forgery gap repeated across several unrelated templates.

Industry and recognition

May 2026

Featured in Electronics For You

Electronics For You ran a feature interview with me on whether an Indian brand can build and grow in rugged computers, and how we are scaling manufacturing in Goa.

read the feature →

Aug 2025

Appointed director of a Goa electronics manufacturing cluster

I was appointed a director of a government-linked electronics manufacturing cluster in Goa, which ties us into the state's wider manufacturing setup.

Nov 2024

Gave feedback on Goa's draft electronics policy

The state asked for input on Goa's draft electronics manufacturing (ESDM) policy, and I sent back detailed notes on its incentive structure.

Mar 2026

Exhibited at Convergence India Expo 2026

We showed our industrial PC and thin-client products at the Convergence India Expo in Delhi. I chose what went on the stand.

Feb 2026

Started an internship partnership with IIT Goa

I agreed to take summer interns from IIT Goa, setting up a small recruiting and mentoring link with a local engineering college.

Thinux, our own Linux OS

Thinvent's own Linux distribution, which I have worked on since 2012. 1K commits, around 62K lines, mostly Bash, Python and C. It builds the OS images that run on our thin clients, desktops and devices, with a big push in early 2026 on self-provisioning server fleets.

A full custom Linux distro build pipeline

install.sh orchestrates debootstrap, package layering and filesystem assembly into bootable images ('spins') for every hardware/purpose combination Thinvent ships, from bare-bones IoT boxes to full desktops.

ARM board support alongside x86

Ported and maintained the OS for Amlogic S905/S905X3 boards (Thinvent's Micro5/Micro6 thin clients), Orange Pi, and Raspberry Pi 2, including kernel, U-Boot and device-tree integration for each.

A read-only, self-healing filesystem

Built an overlayfs-based immutable root so the OS partition stays read-only while user changes land in a separate overlay; devices survive power loss cleanly and a factory reset just wipes the overlay.

A thin-client remoting stack

Integrated Citrix Workspace, VMware Horizon, AWS Workspaces, FreeRDP and VNC into a kiosk-mode launcher, turning low-cost hardware into dedicated remote-desktop terminals.

Fleet management that updates itself

A daily, idempotent update-server.sh script git-pulls and self-re-executes on every production server, gated by a JSON rollout file, with WireGuard networking and iPXE/PXE boot for provisioning new machines.

Native C tools replacing Python on constrained boards

Rewrote the device metrics/inventory reporting agent from Python to C for a lighter footprint, alongside custom C/C++ kiosk UI tools (menu, notify, sysinfo) that run directly on the low-power ARM hardware.

Technical writing

Deep dives on how these systems are actually built, written up and published on the Thinvent site.

Everything, month by month

2024

Sep 2024Built the product database and QC sheets Laid the groundwork for tracking every product variant and the quality-control checklists used to test each device before it ships.

Nov 2024Built an SMS-to-API relay Android app Wrote Relay, a small Kotlin app that forwards incoming text messages to a web service, useful for automating anything that depends on SMS.

Nov 2024Met MeitY official at IIT Madras CxO event I went to a CxO event IIT Madras ran in Delhi and got talking with a senior official from the Ministry of Electronics and IT, which opened a small channel for conversations about electronics manufacturing here.

Nov 2024Gave feedback on Goa's draft electronics policy The state asked for input on Goa's draft electronics manufacturing (ESDM) policy, and I sent back detailed notes on its incentive structure.

Nov 2024Launched the IPC industrial PC product line We added our Industrial PC line, a rugged fanless computer for factory and infrastructure use, widening the range beyond thin clients and mini PCs.

2025

Jan 2025Connected the business to Zoho Books Started linking purchases and bills to the company's accounting system so financial records stay in sync automatically.

Feb 2025Built an Orders Dashboard Gave the team a single screen to see incoming orders and their status at a glance, instead of digging through spreadsheets.

Mar 2025Added WhatsApp contact and sped up the website Put a WhatsApp button on the website for easy customer contact and tuned page speed based on Google's performance feedback.

Mar 2025Ran product photoshoots for new device launches I organised the product photography for a few new devices, including an all-in-one PC, fitting the shoots around the production schedule.

May 2025Added a support ticket system Gave customers a way to raise support requests that the team could track to resolution, the first seed of what became a full customer relationship system.

May 2025Stood up paid digital marketing for the web store I set up Google Ads to bring people to our web store, our first real go at performance marketing alongside the usual tenders and direct sales.

Jul 2025Automated technical datasheet generation Built a pipeline that generates and keeps product datasheets up to date automatically instead of maintaining them by hand.

Aug 2025Launched a CRM module Built a customer relationship management system into the business software so every customer conversation and ticket lives in one place.

Aug 2025Appointed director of a Goa electronics manufacturing cluster I was appointed a director of a government-linked electronics manufacturing cluster in Goa, which ties us into the state's wider manufacturing setup.

Aug 2025Kicked off a brand refresh I led a refresh of our visual identity, working through colour, type and logo with the team and keeping the old bulb icon. We settled on a direction the following month.

Sep 2025Added AI-powered product recommendations Built a system that suggests relevant products to website visitors, then rebuilt its caching three times in a month to stop it from crashing the web server under load.

Sep 2025Started an SEO program for the website Began systematically improving how the website is found on Google, the first step of a program that would later include AI-assisted content matching.

Sep 2025Began filing design patents for hardware enclosures We took on a patent firm and started a proper design-patent program for our product enclosures, beginning with a batch covering several current devices.

Oct 2025Brought SMS relay handling in-house Moved the phone-based SMS relay endpoint from the old website onto the main business software for more reliable handling.

Oct 2025Added email campaign sending Built the ability to send marketing email campaigns directly from the business software rather than a separate tool.

Oct 2025Added online payments with Razorpay Connected the website's shopping cart to a payment gateway so customers could pay online and check out directly, plus added GST billing details for Indian tax compliance.

Oct 2025Filed first design patent applications We filed our first design patent applications for the product enclosures with the Indian Patent Office, and a few more the same month.

Oct 2025Relaunched the company website, self-built We put out a new company website. I built it by hand rather than outsourcing it, and it replaced the old one within days.

Nov 2025Launched a live chat system on the website Built a real-time chat widget for product pages backed by an AI assistant that can answer visitor questions and pass tricky ones to a person.

Nov 2025Built a payroll and overtime system Replaced manual payroll calculation with an automated system covering gross pay, overtime, and statutory deductions for the whole team.

Nov 2025Added an expense tracking module Built a system to record and categorize company expenses, laying the groundwork for later automated bank reconciliation.

Nov 2025Hardened the site against automated attacks Added fail2ban and rate limiting so the website could withstand bot traffic and abusive requests without falling over.

Dec 2025Improved bot detection and page caching Separated out the logic that tells real visitors from bots and improved how quickly updated pages replace cached ones for visitors worldwide.

Dec 2025Launched the IPC3 rugged industrial computer We announced the IPC3, the next model in our rugged industrial PC line.

Dec 2025Started producing an own-brand mechanical keyboard We started making and shipping a mechanical keyboard under our own brand, alongside the computers.

2026

Jan 2026Added AI-based semantic matching for SEO Built a system that understands the meaning of search queries, not just keywords, to match website content to what people are actually searching for.

Jan 2026First design patent granted The Indian Patent Office granted our first design registration, for a computing-device enclosure, the first of several over the following months.

Feb 2026Rebuilt the search engine on AWS Valkey Replaced a search system that was running out of memory with one backed by AWS's Valkey caching service, then moved over twenty separate site features to use it for speed.

Feb 2026Filed a second wave of design patents We filed a second batch of design patent applications covering eight more products, along with trademark filings for the Thinvent name.

Feb 2026Started an internship partnership with IIT Goa I agreed to take summer interns from IIT Goa, setting up a small recruiting and mentoring link with a local engineering college.

Mar 2026Redesigned the website firewall Rebuilt the rules that protect the website from attacks, including automatically blocking IP addresses caught sending spam while still letting in legitimate search engines and AI crawlers.

Mar 2026Self-hosted a password manager Set up Vaultwarden, a self-hosted password vault, so the team could manage credentials securely without depending on a third-party service.

Mar 2026Exhibited at Convergence India Expo 2026 We showed our industrial PC and thin-client products at the Convergence India Expo in Delhi. I chose what went on the stand.

Apr 2026Built a factory floor management system Built three connected tools for the factory: an editor for defining how each product is assembled step by step, a scanner-driven screen operators use on the floor, and a live dashboard showing production status in real time.

Apr 2026Started a serious test-writing push Began systematically adding automated tests across the business software, eventually covering hundreds of pages and workflows and catching real bugs along the way, including a security flaw repeated across several forms.

Apr 2026Built a universal product configurator Added a web page where customers can pick and match compatible computer parts interactively, expanded from just the IPC line to the whole catalog.

Apr 2026Automated Google Ads auditing with AI Built a system that reviews ad spend daily, classifies search terms with an AI model to catch irrelevant clicks, and emails a summary with suggested fixes.

May 2026Expanded IPC marketing and landing pages Grew the IPC industrial computer product line's online presence with new landing pages and tightly targeted ad groups built from real customer search terms.

May 2026Containerized the SEO pipeline Packaged the weekly SEO process into a Docker container with an automated build pipeline, making it repeatable and easier to run reliably every week.

May 2026Featured in Electronics For You Electronics For You ran a feature interview with me on whether an Indian brand can build and grow in rugged computers, and how we are scaling manufacturing in Goa.

Jun 2026Turned on detailed traffic logging Enabled structured logging of all website traffic to cloud storage, giving the team a searchable record for diagnosing issues and understanding visitor behavior.

Jun 2026Migrated production to a bigger server Wrote automated migration scripts to move production onto a larger AWS instance to keep up with growing traffic and data.

Jun 2026Designing a panel PC line I'm designing a new panel PC line, the next hardware category after the industrial PCs, mini PCs and thin clients.

Jul 2026Added AI ticket summaries to the CRM Made the customer support system automatically figure out who's on the other end of a WhatsApp conversation and summarize each ticket independently, so summaries stay fresh even if the message fetch fails.

Jul 2026Wrapped up the SMS relay app Made final refinements to the Relay Android app before development wound down, having served as a lightweight bridge between SMS and web services.

Jul 2026Fixed Razorpay payment double-booking Fixed a bug where a successful payment capture was being wrongly flagged as a duplicate of the initial authorization, which could have caused paid orders to look unpaid.

Jul 2026Design patent portfolio kept growing By mid-2026 we had several design patents granted for our product casings, with more still in examination. A few other founders have asked me who we used.