Now | Navendu Pottekkat

Here’s what I’m doing now.

Full-Time Job

I work full-time at API7.ai, where I help build Apache APISIX.

Apache APISIX is an open source, high-performance, cloud native API gateway.

I work to ensure that APISIX’s users have the best experience using APISIX. I also travel a lot to talk to more people about APISIX.

I write on this blog about my work and my other projects. I also send biweekly newsletters to a couple of hundred people.

I don’t plan to work on these full-time or scale and monetize them, at least for now.

I’m also reading The Anarchy by William Dalrymple. It talks about the East India Company and how it rose to power against Indian kingdoms.

I like learning history. I’m terrible at it, and I have been improving my knowledge by reading more history books.

I have also been using Readwise for articles and newsletters. It works really well. I will create a public list of my subscriptions soon.

I’m not working on any side projects now. But I have a big “Ideas” document that I find myself updating constantly.

A lot of my hobbies, like playing my bass guitar, have reduced significantly. I plan to spend more time on my hobbies after a few months.