About Vinod

This is a working notebook for what's actually changing in software delivery as AI takes hold — written from inside engineering orgs, not from the conference circuit.

I'm Vinod Narayanswamy. I've spent seventeen years in enterprise and GCC delivery — Flipkart, Standard Chartered, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Petronas — mostly watching teams ship software under pressure, and lately watching that pressure change shape as AI enters the workflow. I co-trained Scrum@Scale with Jeff Sutherland early in my consulting years and learned the methodology was never really the thing — the work is the thing. The work is still the thing.

These days that watching has turned into building. I run an AI-native delivery advisory for GCC engineering leaders, and I'm putting together a governance layer for AI-assisted delivery — the instrumentation this whole notebook keeps arguing engineering orgs are missing. More on that soon, at its own address. For now, this site stays what it's always been: the notebook, not the pitch.

What you'll find here is honest assessments of AI coding rollouts — what works, what doesn't, and what teams are quietly faking metrics on. Measurement frameworks for engineering leaders who can't accept "the developers seem happier" as an outcome. Notes on delivery itself, which is the part most AI discourse skips over. And occasional longer pieces on what this all means for engineering careers, GCC strategy, and where the value actually pools.

I try to write things I'd want to read myself — specific, falsifiable, and shorter than the topic seems to demand.

If that sounds useful, subscribing is free and the only thing in your inbox will be the posts. No funnel, no upsells. If you want to talk about a delivery challenge at your org, find me on LinkedIn, or email vinod@vinodnarayanswamy.com.