iamravi
Builder → wherever the route goes

I build things and I wander —
sometimes at the same time.

Somewhere between shipping code for a living and chasing the next border crossing, this site happened. A software engineer by day, occasional tech tinkerer, marathon runner, and a traveler who'd rather document what a trip actually costs than sell a highlight reel. Most weeks look ordinary. Then the passport comes out, plans go loose, and the road takes over — routes, receipts, and all.

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15Countries logged
4India regions
6Medal stories researched
01Startup, founder & CTO

A real archive, not a blog

Hundreds of cross-linked pages on travel, ideas, and computer-science mentorship — built to be used, not scrolled.

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First-person, field-tested writing from real trips and real production systems — not generic filler.

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Latest route

Kazakhstan
NOV 2023 & JUL 2026
visa-free · 14 day

Kazakhstan

A visa-run turned into horse riding lessons, a Georgian restaurant you'll keep going back to, and Almaty's mountain-backed calm after the Uzbek desert heat.
Also recently: Uzbekistan · Nepal

15 countries, one route each

China to Central Asia, over a decade of travel — each one gets a real writeup: visas, costs, what actually happened.

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China
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Indonesia
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Malaysia
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Zambia
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Botswana
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Namibia
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Tanzania
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Kazakhstan
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Sri Lanka
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Thailand
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Cambodia
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Laos
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Vietnam
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Nepal
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Uzbekistan
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Elsewhere on this site

My City

Lucknow — the place I keep coming back to

Home base between the routes: the food, the streets, and the slow work of caring about where you're from.
Stories · Founder, DLN Technologies

The Goat Herder Who Became Zambia's Youngest CEO to Win an International Award

Raised in a thatched village herding cattle, he built a school ID-card company that made him the first Zambian — and youngest African CEO — to be recognised by a French tech manufacturer.
Journal · August 7, 2026

The People Between the Places

Why the journeys I remember most are not always the ones marked on a map.
Volunteer

A civic cleanup platform, built from what actually works elsewhere

The Ugly Indian, Rwanda's Umuganda, Seoul's Cheonggyecheon — real models for "do it for my city," adapted here.
Air

Lucknow's air quality, tracked

A live scaffold today — real sensor data and citizen alerts once I'm back home.

Build real projects

Hands-on labs and projects from the Mentorship archive — each with clear success criteria you can check off.

Lab

A Safe Local IIS Lab: Build a Site From Scratch

A from-scratch, entirely local IIS lab — install IIS, create your own site, and find its log files — safe to do on a personal machine with no production risk.

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Setting Up Your First Development Environment

A from-scratch lab to get your first coding environment working — editor, a language runtime, the terminal, and Git — so setup friction never blocks your learning again.

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Your First GCP Cloud Run Deployment

A hands-on, from-scratch lab deploying a simple application to GCP Cloud Run — the actual commands, what each one does, and how to confirm it worked.

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Your First Real Project (Not a Tutorial Clone)

A structured lab for building your first project that's genuinely yours — not a copied tutorial — scoped small enough to actually finish, and set up so it doubles as portfolio material.

intermediate 4 checks 14 min
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