I’m Prithvi. You may also know me as velvet or storiesofshiva. I am the founder of KiloByte Collective. _We transform SMBs into AI-first businesses.

Most of my days are spent building stuff at KiloByte, solving Multicloud Data and AI challenges at Enterprise, and spending time with my Schanuzer, Foggy.

Previously, I was a product guy at an edtech startup and a couple of Fortune 25 companies.

Then, I founded a hospitality business that culminated with a boutique hotel in Tulum. Retired for a year, built Mexico’s best Indian restaurant - Velvet House, and destroyed it before others could ruin it.  A few links to explore:

• Writing
• Projects
• Photography
• Recipes
• What Im doing now

Elsewhere

You can receive updates from me via email or follow me:

• Linkedin: Prithvi Datla
• X: @prithvidatla
• Instagram: @storiesofshiva
• TikTok: @chutneybro
• Spotify: @insidethefoundry
• Youtube: @insidethe.foundry
• GitHub: @velvetchief

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This site is written and edited in Obsidian, inspired by Steph Ango. Like him, I love the philosophy of File over app. My plain text Obsidian files are automatically compiled into web pages using Jekyll and hosted with Netlify.

My Jekyll template and color scheme is custom , but you can get similar results from this template by Maxime Vaillancourt. I used it as a base, asked Claude code to customize.

All Photographs and graphic images are my work, copyright.

Ad Astra.