One of the things I love most about these conversations is when you finally get to properly talk to someone you’ve known online for years but never actually spoken to. That’s exactly what happened when Ravi Sagar of SPARXSYS joined me on Episode 164 of The Naina Experience Podcast. Ravi and I go way back – all the way to the early days of Twitter, when there were so few Indians on the platform that you just kind of knew everyone who was there. Neither of us had ever spoken in real time until this live.
Ravi is based in London, where he’s been for the past ten years, running SPARXSYS – a software company that builds products and apps, including tools that work with Jira, the popular project management platform. His path there was anything but linear. He started at IIT Delhi but dropped out after six months, completed his engineering degree from Delhi, worked at a few companies, and eventually got an offer to move to the UK. He took it, and hasn’t looked back.
We spent a good chunk of the conversation talking about what it’s like to move from India to a Western country – something I’ve been living through myself since relocating to Australia. Ravi’s take was refreshingly honest: London is wonderful, but coming from Delhi, it can feel a bit quiet, even boring, at first. The chaos of Delhi is something you miss. He goes back to India a couple of times a year and still loves it — the food, the energy, the people – but after about three weeks, he starts wanting to return to the UK. That push and pull feels very familiar to me.
Ravi’s company SPARXSYS, builds apps that solve specific problems within Jira – and while tools like Jira might feel like they’re just for large tech teams, he pointed out that people use it for everything from software sprints to planning weddings and house builds. They’ve also started integrating AI into their workflow – all internal meetings are recorded and transcribed, and they can simply ask AI to summarize an entire quarter’s worth of decisions in one report. It’s a small shift that clearly makes a big difference.
And then – in possibly the most meta moment of any podcast I’ve done – Ravi asked me about my own workflow, and I ended up explaining exactly how I use Opus Clip and Claude to turn a one-hour live conversation into short clips, transcripts, and blog posts. If you’ve ever wondered how this all comes together behind the scenes, this episode gives you a pretty transparent look at the whole process.
Ravi is one of those people who has quietly been building things online since the very beginning – no fanfare, just consistent, thoughtful work. It was a pleasure to finally have a conversation with him.
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