Arjun Menon

Welcome to my little corner on the internet. I’m Arjun Menon. I’m a software engineer who enjoys programming, reading (and learning new things), writing, and good conversation. Some of my favorite topics include computer science / software, religion, politics, history, technology, science, etc.

I write here and on medium. Some of my writings, organized by topic, are:

❖ Essays:

❖ Fiction: I’m slowly starting to write a story, in the fantasy genre.

❖ Thoughts: Just some small thoughts & stuff I’m scribbling down.

I hope the stuff I write contains good ideas, or is encouraging / uplifting / hope-inducing, or otherwise edifying in some way.

Software

I currently work on fintech (banking software mainly) at a company in Toronto.

I love building useful (and fun) software in my spare time as well.

  • Some of my recently-updated hobby projects includes:
    • Alteza: a static site generator (used by this site).
    • PyPage: a template language & engine (also used by this site).
    • CashTrack(wip): a work-in-progress cash flow tracking tool.
    • Tax Analyzer: gives you an NYC income tax breakdown with a graph. Check it out here!
  • Some of my older hobby projects includes:
    • NeoLisp: an experimental LISP dialect.
    • Distributed graph algorithms: implementations of a few distributed graph algorithms, where each node in the graph is a process, and IPC is used to solve graph problems.
    • Multi Adblock Detect (npm): a library containing a React hook for detecting ad blockers.
    • test_cmd: a command-line black box stdin/stdout/stderr-based testing tool.

Toronto

I live in Toronto. I’m always up to meet up in-person for coffee/tea and chat, or to chat on the phone.

I’ve started a few public meetup groups here in Toronto:

Endnote

You can reach out to me at arj9 at pm dot me, at my addresses listed elsewhere, or other platforms.

I hope to write more stuff in the near future, and publish it here as well as elsewhere.