Mudit Gulati

Engineering Leader

I lead engineering teams, which mostly means learning what to stop doing. Fewer opinions, fewer rescues, fewer corners kept for myself. The job, done well, ends with me being less necessary than I was — and the system still standing without me in the room.

The work, in three acts

Yesterday it was all black and bare.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Camus

The Apprenticeship

Morgan Stanley · Senior Manager

The only engineer in India on a compliance desk that spanned every time zone the firm traded in. Pre-trade checks, post-trade checks, the systems that catch a bad trade before it becomes a headline. Ownership wasn't a value here. It was the job description.

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The Weight

Deutsche Bank · Assistant Vice President · Engineering Lead

Less time finishing features, more time deciding what a system would look like before anyone wrote a line. Java, Angular, React — whatever the problem asked for. Build the foundation, leave it in steadier hands, go again.

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The Ascent

Bank of New York · Senior Vice President · Engineering Lead

A portfolio tool, built from its first line of code with two analysts and a deadline that didn't move. It scaled past the team that made it. What I lead now is wider than any one product.

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Writing

Sixty-four gigabytes of quiet May 2026 I bought a Mac Studio to run large models at home. The surprise wasn't the speed. Slow miles April 2026 I run badly and on purpose, and it's the most useful hour of my day. Esslin's book March 2026 Rereading The Theatre of the Absurd, the book that named a movement that didn't know it was one. Things I stopped doing February 2026 Becoming a better engineering leader was mostly subtraction. Beckett, again January 2026 Forty years of returning to a writer who keeps removing things. In defence of boring November 2025 Banks run on dull technology, and I've stopped apologising for it. Nukkad October 2025 Street theatre in Delhi taught me about audiences before software did.

Experiments

Fleeting In development

An external memory: record stray thoughts as audio, ask questions about them later.

Curated YouTube, played like television — no choosing, no thumbnails, just a channel.

Trac Retired

A personal tracking app for anything you cared to count. Shipped to both stores, since retired.

A personal voice assistant that talks back — multiple languages, switchable models, mostly local.