About Mindful Engineer
I’m Arpit Vaish. By day I’m a Principal Software Engineer. By life, I’m someone who discovered that the same mind that can debug a billion-dollar production outage can also debug its own suffering, and that second discovery changed everything.
Mindfulness, Vipassana in particular, pulled me out of that loop. Ten-day silent retreats, daily practice, and immersion in the teachings of Goenkaji, Ajahn Chah, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, and modern neuroscience didn’t just calm me down; they rewired me.
I started seeing exact parallels between engineering and awakening: reactive microservices and reactive emotions both need observation before refactoring; memory leaks and grudges both consume resources silently; rate-limiting works as well for doom-scrolling as it does for API calls. So I began translating what I was learning into language that engineers, founders, and high-achievers could actually use, no incense required.
That translation became Mindful Engineer.
My only offering is this blog, and everything on it is free, forever. Every article, every guided meditation, every framework I share is my way of paying forward the peace I was given. I write about chakra activation for authentic voice, chronic pain relief through polyvagal and MBSR techniques, “garbage-collecting” old beliefs, speaking kindly to the inner critic, and dozens of other practices that actually work in the middle of a sprint or an on-call nightmare.
Why give it all away? Because the people building tomorrow’s world, the ones writing the code, training the models, and shaping global systems, are often the same people running on fumes. When those minds learn to pause, to feel, to respond instead of react, the ripple is massive. Calmer engineers write kinder algorithms. Kinder algorithms create less extractive products. Less extractive products make a gentler world.
I believe the most revolutionary act right now is helping the builders become awake. If we want ethical technology, sustainable systems, and societies that actually serve people, we need the humans behind the keyboards to be free from unnecessary suffering.
So this space is my small contribution to that freedom. No paywalls, no courses, no upsells, just practical, engineering-minded mindfulness for anyone who wants it.
Take what helps. Leave what doesn’t. Share it if it helps someone else.
Together, one breath and one kind decision at a time, we make the world a little less frantic and a little more human.
– Arpit