Sourabh Madur
I'm an AI Engineer at Supio, an early-stage legal AI startup.
Previously at Meta, I worked on Instagram's recommendation systems and product growth, and later on the AI team behind Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Before that, I built distributed systems at Oracle.
I studied at IIT Bombay before earning a degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where I focused my coursework on AI and computer science.
I read and write for fun, which is most of what ends up on this site.
Latest Posts
6/10/2026
The Door I Didn't Notice Opening: A Quick Exploration into Magical Realism
A journal entry from a writers' block session in San Francisco: what magical realism is, how it differs from fantasy, why it felt familiar to someone who grew up in India, and a reading list for the road ahead.
6/6/2026
Caprice as Exploration: The Underground Man as a Reinforcement Learning Agent
Dostoevsky's Underground Man insisted that acting against our own advantage is the highest advantage of all. Read through reinforcement learning, his caprice looks a lot like exploration.
6/5/2026
Writing in the Age of AI
When ChatGPT arrived, I gave up writing. I was wrong about what writing is for...
Recent Reads
- Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-ju
- The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Dear Girls by Ali Wong
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb