Srix

Srix

Inventor, technologist, artist. Bengaluru, mostly.

I design AI-native engineering organisations for a living: software factories where agents plan, build and test alongside people, and engineers become orchestrators. The rest of the time I point projectors at walls, pools and old mansion doors, and I am teaching a camera to play a room back as music.

Two decades in. Two startups co-founded, six product teams built from scratch, patents in three jurisdictions, and recognition from Stanford GSB, Qualcomm and NASSCOM along the way.

Srix at a pier in San Francisco, pink jacket, looking at the camera
San Francisco, 2025

Now

September 2026

  • Working with engineering leaders on AI-native operating models, through AI Native Orgs.
  • Building SonicLens: a camera that listens to a space and plays it back as music.
  • Reviewing proposals for The Fifth Elephant and mentoring founders at ISB IVI.

Building

Work

AI Native Orgs

Engineering organisations of 50 to 200 people, moved from AI-assisted to AI-native. Assessment, workshop, pilot, then an AI Lab that builds alongside the team and hands over. Software factories where agents plan, build and test with people, and engineers become orchestrators.

Take the five-minute assessment or read more at ainativeorgs.com

Play

பைந்தமிழ்

PyTamil

A Python library for classical Tamil: parsing, prosody, the grammar of verse. Open source since forever.

Programming Language Comparison, a table of one concept across many languages

Programming Language Comparison

One concept, twenty-plus languages, side by side. Built in 2023 with GPT-4, rebuilt in 2026 with agents.

FoodBhasha, a grid of vegetables and fruits with names in Indian languages

FoodBhasha

Indian ingredient names in 23 languages, for anyone who has stood in a market wondering what vendakkai is.

Inventions

  • Bonding cellular and Wi-Fi links into one faster connectionUS 10454726 · IN 304536 · 2019
  • Aggregating many networks through a router and the cloudEP 3180895 · US 10355880 · IN 302542
  • Zero-touch configuration of modemsIN 299994
  • Reading traffic from video, for insurers and policeIN 202041023101 · filed 2020

Awards

  • 2016Top Innovation Award, India Innovation Growth Programme with Stanford GSB
  • 2016Qualcomm Design in India Challenge top ten
  • 2015Most Innovative Product of the Year, NASSCOM at the NASSCOM Product Conclave, Bengaluru

Art

Light on things that were not built to be screens, and sound from what a camera sees.

Projection mapping

TouchDesigner, a projector and whatever surface the evening offers: mansion doors, a courtyard wall, the living-room sofa.

Projected light on a villa wall above a pool at night
Elsewhere surf camp, Sri Lanka, 2025
Blue projected shapes on a courtyard wall by a pool
Dolphins on a courtyard wall, Sri Lanka, 2025
Colour projected onto carved doors of a Chettinad mansion, a laptop running TouchDesigner in front
Chettinad mansion, TouchDesigner on old doors, 2025
Generative colour projected onto a pillar of a Chettinad mansion, a projector and a laptop running TouchDesigner in the foreground
Chettinad mansion, light on a pillar, projector on the table, 2025
Santa Claus projected onto a green sofa, Srix reaching out to it
Santa on the sofa, December 2025
Srix sitting on a sofa lit with projected Santa and reindeer
Art is live in the eyes of the audience, December 2025
A square of generative blue light framed in orange on a dark wall
A framed window of light, December 2025
A code editor beside a colourful live shader, webcam inset in the corner
Live shader set at Gray Area's BYOB, San Francisco, April 2025

More on Instagram

SonicLens

With Silvie Claes, architect and spatial designer

A camera reads a space: light, edges, rhythm, how open it is. SonicLens turns that into layered music in real time, in the browser, with shaders and Tone.js. It began at CODAME's The New Human 2036 hackathon and has since been shown at Milan Design Week and San Francisco Design Week. Museum and urban-walk pilots are underway.

soniclensart.netlify.app

Shown at

  • 2026-06San Francisco Design Week, The New Human SonicLens
  • 2026-04Milan Design Week, Google arena SonicLens
  • 2026-03CODAME, The New Human 2036 creative hackathon, where SonicLens began
  • 2025-04Gray Area BYOB, San Francisco live visuals

Writing

All writing. Art and life notes go to Substack.

Speaking, mentoring, reviewing

  • 2026-06AIBoomi Startup Weekend, Bengaluru mentor
  • 2026-05Namma Yatri, Bengaluru talk
  • 2026-03LSPE-IN #58 at Myntra, Bengaluru talk
  • ongoingThe Fifth Elephant proposal reviewer
  • ongoingISB IVI mentor to founders

Timeline

Read it like git log --graph: newest at the top, one branch per stretch of work, merged back into main when it ended.

  1. SonicLens at San Francisco Design Week, with Silvie Claes art
  2. AI Native Orgs, founder HEAD -> ai-native-orgs
  3. Projections in Sri Lanka and Chettinad, TouchDesigner on walls, pools and doors
  4. Projection mapping, live visuals at Gray Area BYOB, San Francisco
  5. Played djembe in public
  6. Appsmith, system architect and engineering leadership
  7. Bachelor of Arts in Tamilology, for fun
  8. PlumHQ, tech coach
  9. QShala, fractional CTO
  10. Express Stores and MagikFin, fractional CTO
  11. Patents granted in the US, Europe and India tag: patents
  12. RoadSenseAI, founder and CTO
  13. ZifiLink exit: 70-plus enterprise customers, patents
  14. Top Innovation Award, IIGP with Stanford GSB tag: iigp-2016
  15. ZifiLink (Watchy), co-founder and CTO
  16. beforeSify, Motorola, Tektronix
  17. earlierB.Tech in Information Technology, for work

Contact

The quickest way to reach me is a call. For everything else, LinkedIn.

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