Chris&Sree.
Our AI journey. Real stories. Together.
We're Chris Story and Sreekandh Balakrishnan — two technology directors at Travelopia, sharing what we're learning about AI from inside a team that follows the sun across five continents.
What we're working on.
Four threads run through everything we plan to share here. Some weeks one will dominate, others another — but together they describe how we think about technology, teams, and the road ahead.
Generative AI
Building with foundation models in production — what's working, what isn't, and the surprises along the way.
AI Strategy
Where AI fits, where it doesn't, and how technology leaders can decide without falling for the hype.
Leadership
Running technology teams across timezones, cultures, partners, and contexts — and what that takes day to day.
Innovation
Experimenting in the open. Sharing the small bets, the failed ones, and the ones that quietly changed everything.
How we got here.
Our paths crossed at Travelopia, where together we now lead a technology organisation that doesn't fit neatly on a single map. Not one office. Not one timezone. Not even one continent. Instead — a constellation of engineers, designers, and partners stretched across the United Kingdom, the United States, India and the wider Asia region, Cape Town in South Africa, and Costa Rica in Central America.
Add to that a network of remote teammates and trusted partners working from places we've never set foot in, and what emerges is a twenty-four-hour engine: when one part of the team logs off in London, another is just opening their laptop in Bangalore; when Cape Town wraps for the day, San José is finding its rhythm.
And right now, all of it is being reshaped by AI. New tools, new workflows, new questions about what software development even looks like. This site is where we plan to share what we're seeing — the experiments, the lessons, the things we got wrong, and the things that genuinely changed how we work. Real stories. Together.
- 01 London, United Kingdom 51.5074° N · 0.1278° W
- 02 United States 40.7128° N · 74.0060° W
- 03 Bangalore, India 12.9716° N · 77.5946° E
- 04 Cape Town, South Africa 33.9249° S · 18.4241° E
- 05 San José, Costa Rica 9.9281° N · 84.0907° W
- 06 + remote ∞ everywhere else
Six places, one team.
Our colleagues, partners, and remote teammates collaborate across timezones, languages, and cultures every day. The map gets crowded — and that's the point.
Diversity of place becomes diversity of thought, and our technology is better for it.