Hello I'm Lakshmi

I write. I build. I interrupt.

A technologist turned author, founder, and feminist troublemaker.

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For over two decades, I built digital products, led tech teams, and sat through far too many meetings where innovation meant rearranging the furniture. Somewhere between launching ERP systems and raising a child, I realized I wasn’t just designing software, I was quietly questioning the systems around it.

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Systems that often left no room for emotion.
No margin for failure.
No space for people like us.

So I stepped out of the safety net. Left the predictability of a blue-chip job.

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I worked in clean-tech before climate became a trend. And while nine months pregnant, I launched a last-mile delivery startup that challenged industry defaults, with my baby’s crib parked next to my office desk and investor decks balanced between nap times. I raised funds with a child on my lap. Hustled, broke, burned out, then rebuilt from the ashes.

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​And somewhere in that chaos, I started writing.

​Because there were things I could no longer ignore.
Not in boardrooms. Not in classrooms. Not online.

The performative feminism.
The broken mental health playbooks.
The AI systems being built without women, empathy or memory.

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My books and essays explore feminism, technology, and identity in a voice that’s part critique, part imagination. I’ve written everything from satire (Hashtags and Heroines) to speculative non-fiction (The Gender Glitch) to children’s eco-adventures (The Eco Squad).​

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Now, alongside writing, I’m building an AI-first healthtech platform. It’s a continuation of my life’s throughline: using technology not just to optimize systems, but to center humanity.

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Also now, I build differently.

With tech, with truth, with teeth.