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I'm Nirjan, a full-stack product developer specializing in building fast, intuitive, secure and privacy-focused web applications. I'm passionate about building better experiences on the open web that are fast and secure but also accessible and user friendly. I'm a life-longer learner and problem solver who values simplicity and deeply understanding my tools, my technical stack and the user's problems.

What I aim for in any software I build

  • Good User experience

    • Intuitive interface
    • Accessible
    • Bloat free
    • Cohesive brand
    • Simple and Clear

  • Good performance

    • Fast loading times
    • Fast time to first interaction
    • Fast feedback cycle
    • Fast for majority of users

  • Secure

    • Free from common vulnerabilities
    • Follow best practices
    • User comes before developer experience
    • Proper backups and plans for outages
    • Limited downtime - try to aim for 99.99% SLAs
    • Prevent issues from depenencies

My sofware development values

  • Main priorities: UX, Performance and Security
  • Outcome over tools and techniques
  • Focuses on patterns over technology
  • Long-term proven technologies instead of short-term trends
  • Avoid shitting on other tech and people and try to spread positivity and excitement
  • Give people the benefit of doubt
  • Learn in public
  • Build in public
  • Proponent of Self hosting and owning your data
  • Linux enthusiast
  • Ship quick and then iterate

Core patterns I try to follow

  • Good UX
    • Good understanding of UI/UX
    • Accessibility
    • Understanding Product management, branding and marketing
    • Testing for end-user happiness
  • Good Performance
    • Benchmarking and profiling
    • Good understanding of devtools
    • Good understanding of fundamentals of the platform
    • Performance oriented CI/CD practices
    • RUM metrics collection
    • Database query optimizations
    • Observability and tracing
    • Avoid Hasty Abstractions
  • Security
    • Implement the best security practices for the platform
    • Good backup solutions
    • Understand laws and regulations for user privacy
    • Good data storage practices
    • Proper monitoring and alerting
    • Proper dependency auditing
    • Own the data as much as possible instead of giving it to third parties

Fundamental technologies I'm interested in

  • Linux
  • Docker
  • GIT
  • SQL
  • Assembly*
  • Web Protocols: HTTP, HTTPs, TLS, UDP, Web sockets
  • Accessibility
  • UI/UX design
  • Relational database modeling
  • Observability
  • Debuggers
  • Profillers
  • Web Platform
  • Marketing and Branding
  • Observability and Monitoring
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Automation
  • Testing

Besides coding, I'm also a huge cinephile and I love reading books or listening to music (mostly hiphop). I'm deeply curious about history, mythology and storytelling. I enjoy playing football/futsal whenever I can and I'm a loyal Manchester United Fan.