“My Niche Is Everyone”

I’m not the expert in the room. I’m the one who connects them.

Over the years, I’ve realized something about myself that used to feel like a disadvantage:

I don’t have deep domain expertise in one thing.

I have breadth—across people, problems, and paradigms.

I can have a conversation about making Japanese rice balls 🍙.

Or dive into how atomic force microscopes map cellular topography to build insulin sensors.

I’ve done both. Literally.

From physics to material science with Edmund Samuel.

From CAD/CAM with Pampana V Rao to rural innovation at UC Berkeley.

From government systems with ITE&C to business frameworks at SKEMA.

From building software with Srinivas Maddala and Murthy to startup chaos at Clappit.

I used to think this made me unfocused.

But while speaking to Kalyan Josyula yesterday, it clicked—

My strength isn’t picking a well. It’s jumping across them.

I don’t have a bias toward any domain. Which means I can listen without ego, connect without agenda, and create clarity between silos that don’t usually talk.

That’s not a bug. That’s my design.

People say, “You need to own a niche.”

Sure—but maybe my niche is connecting the experts.

Seeing the forest and the trees.

Finding patterns where others see noise.

I’ve tried selling. I’ve followed the playbooks.

But every time, the work that makes me come alive is this:

Connecting people who should know each other but don’t.

Forging trust. Accelerating momentum. Getting out of the way.

So here’s what I’m betting my life on:

I want to be known as the people’s person.

The one who can walk into any room, understand anyone, and make the whole system smarter—without bias, without fluff, without needing to be the smartest person in the room.

So good, you won’t be able to ignore me.