Srivathsan Venkateswaran · Software engineer at SILQ
Thirteen products in seven weeks. Four of them run someone else's business.
Not prototypes. Open on somebody's screen this morning.
2 July to 19 August 2026. Counted from git history and my own trip files, not estimated.
Work
The day job
Where the day job has run
A six-month internship at Caterpillar turned into three years and two promotions on their enterprise search platform. I left for SILQ in March 2026.
Off the clock
Two hundred and twenty-two days on the ground
Every dot is a place I went, sized by days spent. Parsed from my own trip notes by TravelPort, one of the projects above.
Projected from TravelPort's baked geometry with the same Mercator constants. No map library, no tile server, no request leaves this page.
Get in touch
What I am best at
I build the software small businesses actually run on. A gym still writing receipts by hand. A distributor whose money was locked inside an ERP nobody could query. A consultancy with a good record and no way to show it. Most of these started with somebody describing a problem that was quietly costing them money every month.
By day I write backend systems at SILQ, and spent three years before that on Caterpillar's enterprise search platform. Everything above is what I built after hours, with its real status attached: in use, just built, or pitched to somebody who never wrote back.
I am best at the unglamorous end: the business that runs on paper, the ledger nobody can query, the thing everyone works around. If that is what you have, email me. It is the fastest way to reach me and I answer.
The seven weeks run from the first commit on Burrito to the last one on Jelfort, and the travel figures are recomputed from the parsed notes every time this page is built. Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No framework, no build step, no dependencies, no analytics. The map of India is drawn as SVG from a data file in this repository, which is roughly how OneMetro works too.