Aneesh Megravalli
Gangadhar

Programmer, Stoic, bibliophile, strength coach, soap maker. One person, many shapes.

Today: programmer, critical thinker, armchair philosopher, bibliophile, geek, Stoic, aesthete and student.

Engineer

Systems first. The interesting part is usually where two of them meet.

I write software for a living and tinker with it for fun: distributed systems, the plumbing that keeps them honest, and lately a lot of AI.

Code on GitHub

Trainer

Strength is a skill. It gets taught like one.

I coach strength, movement and mobility.

  • NASM
  • Animal Flow
  • StrongFirst (SFG)
  • Yoga

On the mats: Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Train at FitWithAneeshMG

Author

Writing is how I find out what I actually think.

Optimal Living is my first book. More are in the works.

Release details coming soon.

About Optimal Living

Maker

Some things are better made slowly, by hand.

Soap and skincare in small batches under AuraByAneeshMG.

  • Soap
  • Lip balm
  • Moisturizer
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Student

Jack of many trades, master of none. Often better than a master of one.

An aspiring polymath. Wake me up in the middle of the night, name any subject, and I'll give you an impromptu talk on it.

Currently tuned to

Distributed systems

Many machines, one answer. The hard part is getting them to agree.

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From the shelf

Optimal Living

Aneesh Megravalli Gangadhar

Mine. The first of a few.

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