I lead the software organization at Quilt, a climate-tech company building intelligent heat pumps to decarbonize homes. The team spans embedded, cloud, mobile, and web, and I stay hands-on, from designing the strategy to writing the code.
Before Quilt I spent over a decade at Google in Travel: founded the Sustainability engineering org and shipped emission labels in Google Flights to hundreds of millions of users.
Writing on abahgat.com
- The Velocity Paradox — why 100x faster code generation doesn't mean 10x faster shipping.
- Permission Structure — using AI for evaluation, not just execution.
- The Ghost in the Training Set — managing Contextual Debt in agentic systems.
- Stuck in the Maze — what Zork reveals about agents and connected systems.
- Visualizing Ukkonen's Algorithm — interactive companion to a classic algorithm.
suffixtree— Ukkonen's algorithm in Java, modernized to Java 21 and published to Maven Central.timcp— MCP server wrapping Google's Travel Impact Model.google/travel-impact-model— TIM, built by the team I led at Google; now used by Skyscanner and Expedia.
abahgat.com · LinkedIn · I also coach senior engineering leaders.