Welcome to The Polygloter

A new beginning: why I'm starting this blog to share the knowledge and hard-won lessons from a career spent building software.

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Hi — I’m Naresh, a software solutions architect based in Stockholm, and this is the very first post on The Polygloter. Think of it as a small new beginning: a place to finally share the knowledge and experience I’ve gathered over a career spent designing and shipping software.

For years my best lessons lived as half-finished notes to myself — scribbled into Teams and Slack between meetings, then buried under the next pile of todos before I could do anything with them. So many ideas worth sharing quietly slipped away like that. The Polygloter is me changing that: giving those notes, and the lessons behind them, a home worth keeping.

I’ve never been able to commit to a single language or stack — I lean generalist and reach for whatever tool fits the problem in front of me, which is where the name comes from. Expect writing that follows the same instinct: practical lessons on languages, systems, and the day-to-day craft of building software, drawn from real work — the things learned by doing, and occasionally by breaking them first. There’s a bookshelf too, tracking what I’m reading.

Mostly, though, this is about sharing — trading notes, book recommendations, and hard-won lessons with other curious people who like to build. If that sounds like you, pull up a chair; you’re among friends here.

More soon…