Tejus Parikh

I'm a software engineer that writes occasionally about building software, software culture, and tech adjacent hobbies. If you want to get in touch, send me an email at [my_first_name]@tejusparikh.com.

Using concurrent-ruby for a 1.5x real-world speedup

Posted by Tejus Parikh on March 08, 2026

Recently we fully onboarded a new customer that strained our our current architectural approach of doing all batch processing within an AWS Lambda by pushing up against the 15 minute hard limit. The fully managed aspect of AWS Lambda is very appealing to a company of our size so I’m loathe to switch to a different runner to bypass this limitation.

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Reflections on the Cox Cleantech Accelerator

Posted by Tejus Parikh on June 30, 2026

Getting accepted into the Spring ‘26 cohort for the Cox Cleantech Accelerator (powered by gener8tor) was a definite turning point for LCOE.ai where I’m the co-founder and CTO. We’d been at it for 2+ years and needed more definitive signal that we were on the correct path. Being one of the 300+ applicants from around the world that got into one of the 5 open slots is certainly some signal. But, like most things for us, it wasn’t straight forward. We were actually ranked #6 but one of the original 5 had to drop out. Being lucky is signal, too.

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