AVINASH
↳ Product Manager · Mumbai, India

Hi, I'm Avinash.

Engineer turned Product Manager. Amateur writer. Obsessive gamer. Perpetual learner. I live on Notion, trade on Zerodha, and bleed Manchester United red.

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001 — About Me

Engineer by degree,
PM by
passion.

Side Quests
139
Days in 2026
MUFC
Football Club

I'm Avinash Bangera — most people call me Avi. I started out as an Electronics & Telecom engineer before realising I cared more about why products are built than how they're wired together.

Now I'm a Product Manager who moonlights as a writer, a tinkerer of AI side-projects, and someone who genuinely spends time thinking about astrophysics for fun. I plan my life in Notion with the same obsessive energy I bring to a Souls game boss fight.

I live in Mumbai with Pam, who humours my 2am game sessions and annual Game Awards tradition.

EC Engineer → PM Notion Evangelist Zerodha Trader Souls-like fan Amateur Writer AI Tinkerer Korean Food convert Duolingo Japanese
002 — Right Now

What I’m currently obsessing over.

🎮 Playing  ·  📺 Watching  ·  📖 Reading
Playing
⚔️
Death Stranding 2
Started 20 Mar. Currently in the controller.
Watching
📺
Your Friends & Neighbors + From: Season 4
Since 16 May. Watching on Prime.
Reading
📖
The Lost Bookshop
Evie Woods. Started 18 May.
Recently Completed — auto-updated 19 May 2026, 2:25 AM IST
📺 Watched
  • Kennedy9
  • One Battle After Another10
  • Rooster8.5
  • Dhurandhar4
  • In the Blink of an Eye8
  • The Devil Wears Prada 28
  • Baramulla7.5
  • Bigg Boss: Season 1910
  • Weapons8.5
  • Fleabag9
📚 Read
  • Underground4
  • The Vatican Secret5
  • The Atlas Six2
  • The Girl in the Glass Case9.5
  • What You Are Looking for Is in the Library9.5
  • Calcutta: Two Years in the City9.5
  • Wrong Place Wrong Time8.5
  • The Vegetarian9
  • The Passengers on the Hankyu Line9.5
  • Snow Crash5
🎮 Played
  • Path of Exile3
  • The Alters4
  • Reanimal8.5
  • Need for Speed Most Wanted 200510
  • Pragmata4
  • Where Winds Meet3
  • HITMAN World of Assassination8
  • No Man’s Sky8
  • The First Berserker: Khazan9
  • Wuchang: Fallen Feathers4
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003 — Interests
01 🎮
Video Games
Souls-likes, open worlds, and anything with a good story. Sekiro, Hades II, Balatro — genre doesn't matter as long as it's great.
02 🔭
Astrophysics
Black holes, dark matter, the Fermi paradox. The universe is absurdly large and I find that deeply comforting.
03 🤖
AI & Tech
I build silly side-projects with LLMs and MCPs. Notion + OpenAI integrations, personal AI agents, content tools. Tinkering is my love language.
04 📈
Markets & Crypto
Active on Zerodha — options trading, equity. Keep an eye on crypto with the same chaotic energy as a Bigg Boss episode.
05 🍳
Cooking
Nothing beats cooking something from scratch. Korean recipes have been dominating my kitchen since the Seoul trip.
06 ✍️
Writing
I journal every day and write threads online. I think in sentences. My Notion has more words in it than most novels.
07 🖥️
PC Building
I recommend phones to friends like it's my actual job. Custom PCs, specs sheets, teardowns — pure joy in component form.
08 🌍
Geopolitics
The world is a complicated place and I like understanding why. From trade wars to diplomacy — always have an opinion.
09
Manchester United
A Manchester United fan in 2026. It builds character. Irrational loyalty is its own form of meditation.
004 — Projects

Side-quests I keep returning to. Built between Sekiro deaths and afternoon chai. Some shipped, some still in my head.

P-01 Shipped
🌅
DawnAI
A landing page for an AI morning-routine product. Copy, design, deploy — end to end. Reclaim your mornings, transform your life.
landing netlify copywriting
P-02 Running
🤯
Notion Daily Quote
A GitHub Action runs a Python script at 1AM, feeds my consumed media into the OpenAI API, and writes a fresh insight onto my Notion home page every morning. ~$5/month. NotionAI without the price tag.
openai notion-mcp python github-actions
P-03 Building
🙋‍♀️
Personal AI Agent
A Discord bot wired to my Calendar, Gmail, and Notion Life OS. Posts a morning briefing, daily review, weekly + monthly recaps. Semantic memory, event triggers, energy-aware scope. My own assistant for ~$5/month.
discord.py fastapi embeddings aws-ec2
P-04 Shipped
🍱
Avi's Food Snap
A Hugging Face space that takes a photo of your plate and tells you what's on it. Made because I was curious how good vision models had gotten. Answer: pretty good.
huggingface vision gradio
P-05 Building
📲
Content Calendar Engine
A long, opinionated prompt that reads my Notion, Gmail, calendar, X feed, and Substack — then ships a 7-day content calendar in my actual voice. 14 tweets, 14 threads, 14 IG posts. No generic AI slop.
prompt-eng notion-api voice-mimic
P-06 Researching
🫰
Avi's FnO Researcher
An LLM-powered F&O research assistant for NSE/BSE. Strict live-price verification, contract spec validation, capital-aware lot sizing. Educational scenarios only — no tips, no hype.
trading prompt-eng fno
P-07 Live
📝
Substack: Mini-PCs & AI
Long-form essays on where computing is heading. The Time of Mini-PCs, custom chatbots, Apple's AI scramble, gaming reviews, personal finance. Published when something genuinely won't leave my head.
substack essays
P-08 Tinkering
🖊️
Journal Website
A small AI-generated app that turns my daily journal entries into a navigable site. Currently a Google AI Studio prototype. Trying to balance structure and stream-of-thought.
ai-studio prototype
005 — Writing
Newsletter · Essays
Avinash Bangera on Substack
Writing on technology, AI, productivity, and life. I publish when something genuinely won't leave my head — from the future of computing to building better habits to making sense of AI in everyday life.
Daily Practice · Journal
The Journal
I've journaled every single day for years. It's how I process the world — unsanitised, stream-of-thought, honest. My Notion has more words in it than most novels. I'm slowly building a tool to make it navigable.
Daily entries since 2023 Ideas, observations, reviews Journal Website — in progress
006 — Favorite AI

My AI of
choice? Claude.

I've tried them all. Claude by Anthropic is the one I keep coming back to. It thinks carefully, writes with nuance, and doesn't hallucinate its way through complex questions. It's the AI I trust when the output actually matters.

I use Claude daily — for brainstorming product strategy, debugging Python scripts, drafting essays, building this very website, and wiring up my personal AI agent. It's the closest thing I've found to a genuinely thoughtful collaborator.

Anthropic's focus on AI safety and building AI that is helpful, harmless, and honest aligns with how I think technology should be built. Good values in the model, good values in the company.

DailyUse frequency
#1Preferred LLM
Claudeby Anthropic
007 — Places
2026
Kolkata
Tagore's house, pool swim, met Ritayan. Fed something deep.
2026
South Korea ✦
Vlog in progress. 15% edited. Photos uploaded. Will finish soon.
2025
Vietnam
8-day adventure. Built a full itinerary from scratch.
Next destination...
TBD. The world is big.

Let's
Connect.