# Vivek Narayanan

I build generative AI and agentic systems at Amazon. I live in Austin.

My life story is told as an illustrated road, a fan tribute to The Lord of the Rings, in four chapters of three moments each.

- Play my story: https://vivekn.co/story/
- Read it as text: https://vivekn.co/story/text (or as Markdown, by asking that page for text/markdown)
- Fetch it as JSON: https://vivekn.co/story/story.json

## My story, in four chapters

1. The Shire, until 2001. Growing up in Delhi and Chennai, my first programs, and the two teachers who changed everything.
2. Rivendell, 2001 to 2012. College, building and selling a first product, and writing software for millions of people.
3. Gondor, 2012 to 2022. Amazon in Bangalore and Seattle, marketing systems for millions of customers, and forecasting through COVID.
4. The road ahead, 2022 to today. Austin, Amazon Health, and generative AI and agentic systems.

## This site

- About: https://vivekn.co/about/
- Contact: https://vivekn.co/contact/
- Privacy: https://vivekn.co/privacy/
- Summary for agents: https://vivekn.co/llms.txt

## Elsewhere

- Email: hello@vivekn.co
- X: https://x.com/vivekn
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viveknarayanan6/
- GitHub: https://github.com/vivnarayan