They say pick a lane. I picked the intersections instead — design, product, engineering, philosophy, AI. The dots seldom connected. That's where I live.
Product Principal at ThoughtWorks, Amsterdam. Shaping intelligent products across healthtech, aviation, retail, and public sector. Now shipping my own experiments.
- narenkatakam.com — My personal site, rebuilt as an AI-native knowledge graph. Humans browse it. Machines query it through an MCP server at
mcp.narenkatakam.com. RAG layer answers questions about my work with 100% eval accuracy. Security-hardened against prompt injection and content scraping. Two audiences, both first-class. - ux-audit — A design eye for AI coding assistants. UI/UX guidance and review skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Windsurf.
About product thinking, design systems, recommendation engines, and the messy territory where technology meets taste. Sometimes about Michelangelo's forearms. Depends on the day.
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