About

The short version

I’m a software engineer based in India with 5 years of experience building distributed systems — event-driven architectures, microservices, the whole backend playbook. I work full-time at a tech company and build AI products on the side.

Gabru (ਗੱਭਰੂ) is Punjabi for someone who’s young, bold, and ready to take on the world. It’s the energy I’m bringing to this: less overthinking, more shipping.

The backstory

I’ve been the “I’ll launch it next month” guy for years. 7 unfinished side projects sitting in private repos. A Notion board full of ideas that never saw daylight. The usual.

What changed? AI coding tools got genuinely good. I watched people build in a weekend what used to take me a month. Not because they’re smarter — because the tools shifted the bottleneck from “can I code this?” to “will I actually ship this?”

So I stopped planning and started building.

What gabrubuilds is

This site is a build-in-public journal. Every week, I pick one idea, build it using AI tools, ship it, and write about the whole process. No gatekeeping, no polished narratives.

What you get:

• Weekly build logs with real code decisions and tradeoffs
• Actual revenue and user numbers — including the weeks where both are zero
• Honest tool reviews of the AI dev stack (Claude Code, Cursor, v0, and whatever else shows up)
• India-first open source tools — starters with Razorpay, UPI, and GST because nobody else seems to be building those

The goal isn’t to become a thought leader. It’s to ship 52 tools in a year and see what sticks.

Why public?

Because accountability works. Announcing “I’ll build in public” means I can’t quietly abandon repo #8. And if even one other Indian dev looks at this and thinks “if this guy can ship, so can I” — that’s the whole point.

Find me

• X/Twitter: @gabrubuilds — weekly updates, AI tool takes, build threads
• GitHub: gabrubuilds — all the code, all the repos