A [now page](https://sive.rs/nowff) is where I put down what is occupying my time at the moment.
**Last updated:** 13 Dec, 2025 from Bengaluru, India.
### Work
#### Analytics Engineering at a Data & AI Consultancy
I'm an analytics engineer at Datatonic, a data & AI consultancy headquartered in London with presence in both EMEA and AMER. My day to day involves helping clients setup their data transformation pipelines in Google Cloud, performing R&D with latest [modern data stack](https://publish.obsidian.md/rambunctious-ruminations/Data+Management/Honest+Thoughts+about+the+Modern+Data+Stack) tooling and playing a just-healthy amount of table tennis with colleagues.
#### Towards Tech for Sustainability
My most recent interest is in trying to understand how I can possibly use my growing skills in tech to work on meaningful solutions towards a more sustainable economy. I would like a career in the same. I am no expert in sustainability or economics at the moment. But, I feel I can improve my understanding by learning about this via books, courses and articles. I intend to publish my learnings over the internet as a part of this.
### Recreational
#### Blogging
I am making attempts to write at least some piece of content whenever I can. Principles guiding my writing
- Write bad drafts, edit later
- Don't censor my own writing i.e stay clear of thoughts such as "ooh, would my colleagues judge me for my views on tool X?" Or "ooh, I am not an influencer, who will read my articles on life"
- Kill my babies i.e if I see some piece of content no longer gives me joy when I write it, I will just stop developing it any further
- Write about anything that interests me; screw the templates, screw the formats
- Don't care about publishing. Just write.
I maintain two Substack publications where I write some of my more *for-public-consumption* pieces.
- [Ram's Mental Gym](https://ramshankaryadhunath.substack.com/) (More frequently updated)
- [The Data, climate and AI journal](https://ramlearnsclimateandai.substack.com/) (Sporadically updated)
Eventually, both Substacks might merge to be the same.
#### Cricket in London
I have started playing club cricket this year (summer of 2024). Every game I play, I learn something new. I record those experiences on here. See [[The 2024 Cricket Season Log]].
It's 2026 and I have just taken on the role of CWRCC's social media manager! Exciting times! You can find all about it in [[Handling Social Media for CWRCC]]. It's a note in progress!
### In the Past
Projects I have either completed, killed off or have put a pause on at the moment.
| Category | Project / Activity | Status | Notes |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Fun Stuff | Research into the Role of Data in Animal Shelters | Completed, but open to ideas | A comprehensive guide of my progress can be found at [[Fur & Figures - Navigating the World of Animal Shelter Analytics]] |
| Fun Stuff | Building Student Club Consultancy Expertise | Killed | I have a Medium Publication, [The Club Sculptor](https://medium.com/the-club-sculptor) for this. Not sure if I will continue with this. But, would like to publish this in some capacity at some point in time |
| Fun Stuff | Sketching | Killed | My little sketch book is tucked away into a corner spot on my desk along with the sketching pencils. I have sketched only 3 times on it. I am dropping this now to avoid [[The Heavy Burden of the Mental Backlog]] |
| Fun Stuff | Analytics 99 | Killed | The plan was to write a story about how a small analytics consultancy matures from being a 2 person team into an MNC. Wrote two episodes. Then got bored. So, dropping it. |