About Me
Vinay Bajpai
Tinkering With Technology Since 1994
I am a technologist at heart — one who has never strayed far from the code, even across 25 nations and a 26-year career spanning multiple continents and industries. I solve business problems through technology, and I share everything I know along the way.
My Story
I was born in Balamau, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, India — a place where electricity arrived when I was in year 7. Growing up, I devoured newspapers and magazines, imagining life in cities full of technology and possibility. That curiosity never left me.
I moved out of the village for higher education — completing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Allahabad, where I encountered a computer for the first time and was immediately hooked. That passion took me to Banaras Hindu University for my Masters, and straight from campus placement into my first technology role.
What followed was a journey across 25 nations — from my first programming roles in Mumbai and the United States, through Europe where I helped build TCS Digital from the ground up, pioneered IoT at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and sat on bank innovation councils in the Netherlands, to Australia where I have called Sydney home since 2015. Sydney was a deliberate choice — its weather, its multicultural energy and its English-speaking openness felt like the right place to plant roots.
Today I live in Sydney with my wife, two children and a dog who has absolutely no interest in technology. Outside of work I am an obsessive reader — with over a thousand books in my personal library spanning non-fiction, Hindi literature, Hindu texts and history. I have a home media server running 35K+ songs, and a deep personal interest in ancient spiritual traditions and Vedic philosophy.
This blog is where all of these worlds collide — technology, curiosity, global experience and a lifelong habit of sharing everything I know.
What I Believe
Technology is only as good as the problem it solves.
I have seen organisations chase the latest trend — blockchain, metaverse, now AI — without asking the most basic question: what problem are we actually solving? The best technology deployments I have been part of were driven by a crisp business problem, not a shiny new tool.
The best technologists never stop being curious.
I started with BASIC and Pascal in a university computer lab in Allahabad. Thirty years later I am still learning, still exploring, still finding new frontiers to understand. Curiosity is not a phase — it is a discipline. The moment you think you know enough, you have already fallen behind.
Global experience is the greatest education.
No MBA teaches you what living and working across different countries and cultures does. You learn that problems are universal but solutions are deeply local. You learn humility, adaptability and the art of reading a room in any language or culture.
Ancient wisdom and modern technology are not opposites.
I have spent as much time studying the Vedas and Upanishads as I have studying cloud architecture. Both are systems of understanding complexity. Both reward deep study. The most grounded technologists I know have a rich inner life alongside their technical one.
Share everything you know.
Knowledge hoarded is knowledge wasted. Every blog post, every conversation, every moment of teaching someone something new compounds over time. This is why I write.
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Whether you want to explore a technology challenge, discuss cloud and AI strategy, share notes on ancient wisdom or just say hello — I am always happy to connect with curious minds.