Podcasts, videos, articles, press, reviews
The public footprint — every long-form interview I co-hosted, talks where Benmore shows up, what clients have said, and what the press has indexed.
Featured talks
Public talks featuring Arkash and the Benmore forward-deployed practice.
Benmore — Forward Deployed Engineering at SMB scale
Talk featuring Arkash on FDE practice at Benmore.
Benmore — building with AI agents (talk #2)
LinkedIn — Posts
Public dispatches on engineering, startups, and what I'm working on.
Home Service Pass — all your home services in one place
Shipped Home Service Pass with the team — a single membership that bundles routine home services for owners and renters.
I learnt to price optionality on aggregation
Aggregation theory says the platform that owns demand wins. Pricing optionality on that distribution is the trade.
When we were evaluating Delve, Drata, and Vanta
Notes on evaluating compliance automation platforms — what actually separates Drata, Vanta, and Delve at the SMB layer.
What happened this week
Weekly dispatch — cross-posted from Substack.
A huge chapter of my life came to an end
Graduated from Boston University with a BA in Math & CS + MS in CS, Magna Cum Laude — four years, two degrees, and a lot in between.
STU STREET — BU Podcast (Co-host)
Co-hosted on WTBU during my time at Boston University. 25 episodes — long-form interviews with founders, professors, athletes, and operators.
Samson Abrams on Making Your Money Work For You
Guest: Samson Abrams
Fahir Han on Scaling Startups and Building an Adaptable Skill Set
Guest: Fahir Han
Rob Spivey on Research, the Credit Cycle and Breaking into Finance
Guest: Rob Spivey
Fireside: The Startup Getting Students into Venture Capital
Guest: Chris Nakayama, Katherine Cao
MIT Sloan Professor Neal Hartman
Guest: Neal Hartman
ByDesign — BU entrepreneurship scene
Guest: ByDesign
What clients say
Verified on Trustpilot.
10 public client reviews from Benmore engagements — screenshots are linked to the live Trustpilot pages.
I’ve Been in Technology Since 1995. I Don’t Write Reviews Like This. Benmore Technologies and Arkash Jain especially are the exception.
Richard and Arkash are amazing. Benmore has been great building our mobile application — we appreciate their work so much.
Benmore is truly exceptional. Arkash’s leadership and exceptional knowledge couple with his brilliance helped our team achieve our goals for the software development.
100% Recommend. The team at Benmore Tech has been AMAZING to work with — Arkash, Charles, Georgia, and others have taken my project seriously.
My experience working with Benmore on building out the Bag Index platform was extremely positive. Strong ability to understand both the technical requirements and the broader vision.
+ 5 more verified reviews
Click any card or link to open the verifiable Trustpilot review page.
Medium — Distributed Systems Paper Reviews
Annotated paper notes from BU distributed systems research. Public reading log on Medium @arkjain.
Writing my Neovim config from scratch
Part 1 of the Neovim build. Bootstrap, options that actually matter, and a leader-centric keymap layout.
WASP: Wide-area Adaptive Stream Processing
Notes on adaptive stream-processing architectures for wide-area deployments.
Megaphone: Latency-conscious State Migration for Distributed Streaming Dataflows
Distributed systems paper review — state migration in streaming dataflows.
Sponge — Fast Reactive Scaling for Stream Processing with Serverless Frameworks
Milwheel — Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale [Pt. 2]
Milwheel — Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing at Internet Scale [Pt. 1]
Impatience Sort — Online Sorting for Almost Sorted Streams [Pt. 2]
Impatience Sort — Online Sorting for Almost Sorted Streams [Pt. 1]
Twitter Heron
Pravega — A Tiered Storage System for Data Streams
Adding Plugins to my Config: No Punches Pulled Back Now [Pt. 2]
Substack — Weekly Notes
Weekly digest of what I'm thinking about — AI, finance, distributed systems.
What Happened This Week — ab3
2025-06-29
What happened this week (LinkedIn dispatch)
2025-09-07
What Happened This Week — 3fb
2025-06-21
What Happened This Week — d4a
2025-03-17
What Happened This Week — 4e2
2025-03-10
What Happened This Week — 2e5
2025-02-24
What Happened This Week — 7c9
2025-02-16
What happened this week? — 626
2025-02-11
What happened this week?
2025-02-03
Press, profiles, mentions
Third-party pages that index or feature my work.