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Arjun
Krishna

Engineer / Tinkerer / Occasional writer

Arjun Krishna, in black and white

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.

It’s not about how fast you build something. It’s about how well it weathers the storm.

— from We Reached the Moon with Kilobytes, 2026
  • Nodrix — the IoT platform Cloudflare didn't build. Telemetry, realtime dashboards and automations, all running in your own Cloudflare account.
  • Reelity — an AI video studio that turns a product pitch and a link into a vertical reel, rendered right in the browser.
  • BitNerve — an agentic trading system where Claude agents trade perpetual futures over MCP, inside a deterministic risk engine, they can't override.
  • More on the projects page.

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

Blog

  1. The Web Beyond the Browser: Reimagining the Web in the Age of AIWhat happens when websites are no longer built exclusively for people to browse? Exploring machine readability, AI agents and what the future of the open web might look like.
  2. Bringing Inovus Blogs to Bluesky, the Long Way AroundHow a detour through the decentralised web led to an Inovus Labs identity on Bluesky, an automated publishing workflow, and 144 articles brought into the archive.
  3. The Joy of Learning Is Getting LostAI has made building software faster and easier than ever.
  4. Building Reelity: A Browser-First Approach to AI Reel GenerationReelity began with a simple idea: generate funny promotional reels from a conversation. This is the story of how JSON, FFmpeg WASM and Cloudflare shaped an unexpectedly simple architecture.
  5. Nodrix: A Dream That Refused to LeaveSome ideas arrive as a passing thought, get forgotten for years, and quietly wait for the right tools to come back. Nodrix was one of them.
  6. How We Turned an Old Signage TV Into a Live Content PlatformSometimes, innovation is simply reconnecting the dots differently — which is exactly what led us to transform an underused signage display at our college lobby into a live automated content platform…
  7. We Reached the Moon with Kilobytes. What Went Wrong After That?We carry more computing power in our pockets than NASA did during Apollo. Yet our apps lag, leak memory, and waste resources.

All posts, since 2019