Bhavani Ravi

Hello 👋🏻 I'm Bhavani, A Software Engineer, from Chennai, India. A city special for its crispy dosas, filter coffee, and beautiful beaches. Yes, we had bioluminescence just last month. ❤️ Public Speaker - PyconIndia and Pycon Australia ❤️ Community & Open Source ❤️ Travel 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇮🇹🇻🇦🇨🇭🇫🇷🇦🇺 ❤️ Watercolor paintings

What's all this fuss about AI Agents and Model Context Protocol? Let's dig in together this weekend. Join here 👇🏻 nas.io/thelearningd...

I have two modes of working Hoodie mode: Warm cozy but smash the bugs/laptop to get things done Blanket mode: Warm cozy and empathetic during code/system design reviews & meetings #DiaryOfANewManager

You wanna go independent. You've quit your job, taken a break, You wanna freelance. No more Jira tickets No more manager to direct you Where do you start? Answered all those here 👇🏻 newsletter.bhavaniravi.com/p/the-busine...

It's time for day 11 of #blogvent! I wrote about the vibes around developer relations, a bit about what you can do to hire and structure a dev rel org well, and other various opinions 🧠 cassidoo.co/post/dev-rel...

As half my timeline is currently posting from #reinvent, please allow me to rant about a topic I care deeply about: swag. Taking a male cut t-shirt, changing nothing about it other than maybe printing a few extra XS sizes, and calling it “unisex” is not, in fact, unisex.

Lately, I have been meeting a lot of skilled creatives, if there is one thing common across all of them they all hate operations hindering them from monetizing their skills they also hate exchanging freedom for money again hindering them from monetizing their skills

I wish someone had told me that silence is a signal and that no feedback is feedback. I learned it the hard way. As Software Engineers, sometimes we are clouded to social signals, which is a huge disadvantage when we enter the business world. newsletter.bhavaniravi.com/p/business-d...

It was particularly fun to write this Coffee Shop metaphor on the disruption that imposed algorithms bring to social conversation.

As a part of #WriteOfPassage, I'm writing a series called "The Freelance Mindset" - a compilation of the lessons and mental models I learned establishing a freelance business in the last 3 years Here's the 1st one newsletter.bhavaniravi.com/p/your-skill...

In a world full of Iced lattes with more ice than coffee Finding "Dirty Coffee" felt like heaven 🤌🏼

Living the laptop life so that I can do something lively. Yesterday did a Discovery Scuba Dive woah woah! The underwater is a magical place. Despite the fact I can't swim or float. I did it. Thanks to my dive master buddy @sayab.bsky.social for motivating me to do this