Vihaan Vaghela

Replace this with your own account of how you got here — what you studied, what you were doing before, what pulled you toward engineering.

Write it as a story rather than a résumé. The résumé version is on LinkedIn and nobody reads a personal site for it.

A few things I hold to, and which show up in everything on this site:

• A system should be legible. If nobody can explain why it did what it did, it does not matter how well it performs.
• Authority is not a feature. Any component that can act on your behalf should be constrained by something you wrote down, and you should be able to change your mind at any point.
• Write it down. A decision whose reasoning was never recorded gets re-litigated every six months by someone with less context, usually me.

Replace or extend these with your own. They are the part of an About page people actually remember.

VECTOR is the main thread — a cognitive governance system where the operator writes the rules and the system enforces them, rather than the other way round. Its documentation lives in the archive, and the reasoning behind each decision is written up as it is made.

Alongside it: projects that were worth finishing, and writing about the parts that were not obvious at the time.

Replace this with the human paragraph — what you read, what you build that is not software, where you are, what you are curious about at the moment.

It matters more than it looks like it should. It is the difference between a portfolio and a personal site.

This site is meant to last. It is a long-term archive of the work and the thinking behind it — not a launch page for a particular season, and not something to be rebuilt every time the tooling changes.

If you want to follow along, the newsletter is the reliable way. If you want to talk, email is the reliable way.