I finished an engineering degree in May 2020 and did not have a job until August 2023. Those three years are the temple.
I am Dhanunjaya M. The degree is aeronautical engineering. I have never worked in aeronautics, and I had no experience of construction, roads or stone when I started carrying sand bags into a forest.
How it started
I did not decide to do this. The temple had gone more than thirteen years with one person looking after it, and I could not stand it. It is a powerful place and I can feel Shiva there. I was earning fifteen thousand a month from a part-time job and had no idea what I was doing. I started with steps. My money did not cover the materials, so I went round asking people for the sand and the cement.
What it turned into
It did not stop at the steps. A road, so a vehicle could reach a place people could barely walk to. A bridge built out of half-tonne stones instead of cement, where the water crossed the path. Two shrines. It finished in 2025.
What it cost
Every day of it was a struggle. My parents put me out of the house over it. I spent a week at Arunachala, staying in an ashram. People called me a madman and asked why it had to be me. I kept going because it did not feel like mine to stop. What it cost, and why it ended, is on the Kona thread.
What I do for a living
Since August 2023 I have tested software for a living. SproutsAI until February 2026, and Interview Kickstart since. Manual testing, then automation with Playwright and Python, and now agents build the suites while I orchestrate them and guide what they write.
What is next
That job pays for the two things I want to do. One is a temple whose sanctity comes from a crore people each writing the names of Rama and Shiva by hand, a hundred and eight times each, on a card, with every card enshrined in the building. It has no card written, no land, no building and no date, and I am the only person on it. The other is telling the eighteen Puranas and the Bhagavad Gita from the sources rather than from the films, which I wanted to do in 2017 and could not afford until this year.
