April 2026  ·  Panjim, Goa
Field notes since 2017
Insights

Honest takes on IT
— from 18 years in the field.

No vendor spin. No marketing speak. Just the questions, red flags and trade-offs we see on real projects — written in plain English for decision-makers who don't have time to decode jargon.

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Case Studies

Engagements we've delivered, with clients who agreed to be named.

Each one is a documented engagement — specific scope, specific technical decisions, specific outcomes. No anonymised "large retail client" stories. If we couldn't get permission to name them, we haven't published them.

Case Study Hospitality · Mumbai 4 min read 2019

Cricket Club of India: a Wi-Fi rebuild done the right way around.

How one of India's most prestigious sports clubs fixed its Wi-Fi by measuring the problem first — bandwidth analysis, signal-strength survey, heatmap — then putting the findings out to vendors to bid against a real specification.

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The Cricket Club of India clubhouse and main field, Mumbai
CS · 01 · Mumbai
Case Study Commercial Printing · Ontario, Canada 5 min read March 2025

Team Printing Inc.: rebuilding storage after a cyber attack.

A Canadian commercial printing studio came to us after a cyber incident — Synology DS425+ NAS, RAID 5, encrypted off-site backup, secure remote workflow. A storage architecture rebuild against the 3-2-1 principle.

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A modern commercial print studio interior with designer workstations and digital production presses
CS · 02 · Ontario
Case Study Hospitality · Arambol, Goa 7 min read 2025

The Clouds Hotel & Resort: escaping an all-in-one ISP contract.

A 45-room boutique resort in Arambol, three years into a bundled IT package from its internet provider. Monthly bills up 37%, CCTV under vendor control, a renewal waiting. Here's how we helped them exit — and saved ₹3.8 lakh in year one.

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The Clouds Hotel & Resort, with timber-clad cottages around a central pool against the Konkan hillside
CS · 03 · Konkan
Case Study Government · Goa 6 min read 2024

Securing the strongrooms: designing for an election cycle that cannot be reopened.

The Election Commission of India (Goa) engaged us to design EVM strongroom surveillance and counting-day infrastructure for the 2024 General Elections. One brief, one constraint: once the vaults were sealed, they could not be reopened. The architecture is what kept that promise.

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The deployed control wall for the Goa election surveillance system: a 64-camera grid showing strongroom and counting-hall feeds during the sealed-vault period
CS · 04 · Goa · 2024
Articles & Field Notes

Thinking from the projects, not around them.

Short reads on specific technical decisions — written for the person about to make one, not for search engines. New pieces as engagements produce them.

Network Design 5 min

Why your vendor's "free" Wi-Fi design will cost you more.

Most organisations let the vendor design their network. That's the first mistake — and it's an expensive one to undo. Here's what a neutral design looks like, and why it pays for itself.

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Industry 7 min

Your server room isn't an electrical room.

Most "small server rooms" get sized as electrical cupboards — and the consequences show up the first summer. What an IT space actually needs.

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Storage 6 min

RAID is not a backup. Here's what every SME should have.

"We have RAID, we're fine" is the most common reason businesses lose data. The 3-2-1 rule, explained without the jargon — and the five questions every SME should be able to answer.

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Industry 8 min

ELV is not MEP: a discipline most schools never taught.

For a generation of architects and engineers, ELV got one slide in college — if it got covered at all. Meanwhile, the building industry quietly split it out into its own discipline.

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Security 5 min

Five firewall rules every SME should have in place today.

The simple policy decisions that separate a secure network from a breach waiting to happen — and why most SMEs get at least two wrong.

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Field Notes 6 min

Field notes: connectivity in places roads don't reach.

What auditing public Wi-Fi at scale in remote India taught us about designing networks that have to survive — and why the principles translate directly to corporate environments.

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