ABOUT

Aswin Behera

Technical Storyteller

Aswin Behera

I'm a mechanical engineer who drifted, deliberately, into the space where complex systems meet human understanding. My work sits at the intersection of game design, technical education, and interactive storytelling.

The Thread

Every project I take on shares a single thesis: invisible systems should be made visible. Whether that's tracing a UPI payment through India's digital infrastructure, visualizing how a service mesh routes traffic, or building a game where cybersecurity concepts become tangible neighborhoods you can walk through, the goal is always legibility.

The Path

Mechanical Engineering at NIT Rourkela, where I learned to think in systems, constraints, and tolerances.
Content Engineering at Tetrate, four years building technical education for service mesh and cloud-native infrastructure. Not marketing content, but curriculum: making Envoy proxies and Istio architecture digestible for engineers encountering them for the first time.
Game Design, where all the threads converge. ServerBound is a cybersecurity investigation RPG where network architecture becomes a tangible, physical neighborhood you can explore. It uses games as a medium for systems thinking. I spoke about this approach at GameMaker India Conference 2024 in New Delhi.
DataFolks, an interactive book about data and privacy for Indian readers. Instead of a dry textbook, it uses Indian systems and metaphors (like digital dabbawalas) to make digital infrastructure legible.
Currently, I'm working on ServerBound, doing design consulting for BestBuds (shaping product and UX for a structured friendship-matching app), and doing app engineering for SaveSync.

Now

Currently building ServerBound toward Steam Next Fest, shaping product UX for BestBuds, and doing app engineering for SaveSync. See the /now page for what's active this week.

Quirks & Beliefs

Things I believe but cannot prove

Every infrastructure diagram is secretly just a map of an organization's communication problems. Also, if a technical concept can't be explained with a physical, real-world metaphor, nobody actually understands it yet.

My relationship with CSS

I enthusiastically offload all CSS anxiety to AI assistants, which frees up my mental bandwidth to agonize for three hours over whether a hover animation curve feels "spiritually correct."

On storytelling

The best technical documentation reads like a good mystery novel where the reader is the detective. The worst reads like a microwave manual translated from three different languages.

On rabbit holes

Interests are creatures — I pet them, feed them, and occasionally get dragged underground for a season. I keep an official field register of every hole: the ones being fed, the ones hibernating, the ones that escaped.

Get in Touch

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