My name is Allen. That’s the short answer.

The longer answer is that I go by Allen Ghanghas in one world and Allen Dior in another. Ghanghas is my Hindi identity, the name I was given, rooted in family and in a language that thinks differently than English does. Dior is my professional identity, the one I built in North America. But neither name fully captures it. I’m just Allen, and I’ve made peace with the fact that no name ever will.

I live in Kelowna, BC. I run a small company called Beaver Computing, which does two things right now: helping senior citizens in Kelowna understand and use technology, and repairing devices people thought were done. The longer-term vision is helping local businesses with their tech needs, built one relationship at a time.

I’m drawn to technology that doesn’t cost the planet more than it gives back. Sustainable tech isn’t a category to me; it’s a filter I run everything through.

Right now I’m deep in agentic AI — not just using it, but learning how autonomous systems think, fail, and improve. I’m exploring what becomes possible when you give an AI agent real memory, real tools, and real responsibility. It’s early and it’s messy and that’s exactly why it interests me.

I’m also genuinely fascinated by psychology and psychedelics. How the mind constructs reality, how perception shifts, what sits underneath the stories we tell ourselves. I don’t think you can build good technology without understanding people first.

When I’m not at a screen, I’m on an e-bike somewhere in the Okanagan Valley. The valley has a way of making everything feel proportionate again.