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Stuff I Use

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These are all of the things I use on a daily basis. Everything listed here is a high-quality product that I enjoy using and would recommend to others.

Apple

I use several Apple products. I like the quality, how they work together, and how I don’t have to think about them much.

2021 14" MacBook Pro — I use this laptop for everything. I like to use it with Dell 4K monitors.
2021 M1 iPad Pro — I use this iPad with a Magic Keyboard.
iPhone 15 Pro
Apple Watch Edition Series 5
Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball
Apple Magic Trackpad and Keyboard

Photography

Fujifilm X-T20 — I have the Fujifilm 15-45mm XC f/3.5-5.6 and XF f/2.8-4 lenses

Music

AirPods Pro
Sony WH-1000XM3
Gibson Les Paul Classic — I play through a Blackstar Fly 3 amp and a Scarlett Solo USB audio interface.
Paul Reed Smith CE24

Gibson Les Paul Classic

Misc

Leuchtturm1917 notebooks
Rotring Rapid Pro pen and mechanical pencil

Leuchtturm1917 notebook with Grado SR80i headphones and Rotring Rapid Pro pen

2018s

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2017s

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2016s

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2015s

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2014s

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2013s

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2012s

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2011s

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About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi! I’m Preetam. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I’m co-founder of FunnelStory, an AI Customer Intelligence platform. Before that I worked on database observability and security infrastructure at various startups.

I have open source projects on GitHub under Preetam and Cistern. I’m interested in databases, distributed systems, and startups.

I grew up in Virginia and went to the University of Virginia.

You can reach me on X, LinkedIn, GitHub, or by email at az___4y@imap.cc (it’s an alias — I’ll still read it).

Fun fact: I co-authored Anomaly Detection for Monitoring (O’Reilly) with Baron Schwartz.

Thanks for reading!