I solve differential equations for a living, and grammar for a hobby.
Mechanical engineer by degree, FEA consultant by trade, published author by accident, and a blogger with an unhealthy number of side projects nobody commissioned.
The short, honest version
I'm a mechanical engineer who fell in love with the Finite Element Method the way other people fall in love with people — completely, and slightly against my better judgment. An M.S. from the University of Texas at Arlington later, I came home to Pune and started Vaftsy, an engineering simulation practice, so I could keep solving other people's structural problems for a living instead of just my own.
Somewhere between pressure vessels and pin-fin heat sinks, I also wrote a textbook on Artificial Intelligence, because apparently one engineering obsession per lifetime wasn't going to cut it. These days I split my attention between client FEA reports, a blog that has never once stayed on topic, the Arsenal back four's baffling life choices, and finding excuses to go stand in front of glaciers in questionable knitwear.
"Narcissism is a cure for attention deficit disorder." — me, in my one moment of unfiltered honesty
I'm told this is either the most self-aware or least self-aware sentence a person can write. I've decided not to think about it too hard.
By day, I break things — on a computer, on purpose
Since 2007, Vaftsy has been the part of my life where the equations have to be right, because somewhere a bridge, a tank, or a robot arm is depending on it.
Vaftsy — Finite Element Analysis & Simulation
We take real engineering problems — pressure vessels, offshore and robotic structures, composites, even ligaments and dental implants — and turn them into equations, then solve those equations before anything expensive has the chance to fail in the real world.
- Pressure vessel analysis to ASME Sec VIII Div 2
- Static, dynamic & fatigue analysis of robotic and offshore structures
- Coupled thermo-structural, composite, and bio-mechanical simulation
- FEA training — for teams and universities alike
"Prepare an engineering report in a manner that decades later, another engineer picking it up shouldn't have to hunt down your phone number to understand you did the right analysis." — Dr. Kent Lawrence, UT Arlington, a lesson I never unlearned
I also wrote some books. On purpose, this time.
Long before AI became dinner-table conversation, I wrote a textbook explaining it in plain, syllabus-friendly English — Mathematical Game Theory, expert systems (with a full walkthrough of MYCIN), neural networks, and every algorithm backed by actual C and C++ code, not just slideware. It's used in engineering courses across Pune and Mumbai University, which is either flattering or a little terrifying depending on the exam season.
First Steps in Python
Same "start from zero, keep it simple" approach, aimed at anyone who'd rather get a loop behaving than debate machine consciousness.
The blog that refuses to pick a lane
I used to run separate blogs for football, memoir, and general nonsense. Eventually I admitted they were all the same blog wearing different hats, and merged them into one glorious, unsorted mess.
I Diagress
One blog, three obsessions, zero editorial discipline: Arsenal match reactions written by someone who has clearly suffered enough, chapters of a slow-simmering memoir about growing up at Crescent High School, and everything else that didn't fit anywhere else — which, on this blog, is most things.
- The football bit — Arsenal commentary, mostly therapeutic
- The memoir bit — "Days Under the Crescent Sun," one chapter at a time
- The everything-else bit — the gibberish the tagline promises
"Even the spelling is not right!!" — the blog's own tagline, and it's not wrong
The PMI Files
A PMP study series at pmi.vinaaypatil.com, published under the pen name Captain Vyom — because apparently one origin story wasn't enough. Every topic gets its own comic strip and illustration, so stakeholder registers, risk matrices, and the entire PMBOK guide arrive as something closer to a graphic novel than a certification manual.
Report for duty at pmi.vinaaypatil.comField research, technically
An engineer needs load cases. I get mine from the Himalayas.
Get in touch, or just window shop
For engineering work, book queries, Arsenal condolences, or general nonsense — pick your door.
Yes, my email is just my own name at my own name. The narcissism section wasn't kidding.