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nrjdalal

AI-native product engineer building SaaS products, developer tools, and agent infrastructure. I learn by shipping.

Five-plus years shipping production web apps, internal platforms, open-source developer tools, and AI-native systems. Right now I'm a Product Engineer at LightWork AI, building AI agent tooling and core product surfaces for an AI-powered property-management platform.

Before that I helped take SaaS and AI products from 0 to 1, shipped scraping- and automation-heavy SaaS, and built open-source tools now used by projects including TanStack, SST, Electric SQL, and Storybook. I care about clean systems, fast builds, strong types, useful docs, and software that survives real users.

Available for senior product engineering, full-stack TypeScript, AI tooling, developer-experience, and founding-engineer roles.

5+ years
shipping production software
500+ PRs
at LightWork AI
1,000+
GitHub stars across open source
250+
public repositories
10,000+
installs across VS Code extensions
30,000+
weekly npm downloads

building

ZeroStarter

Go from 0 to production in 15 minutes.

working

LightWork AI

The future of property management.

npm

GitPick

Clone exactly what you need aka straightforward project scaffolding!

Smart Registry

A zero-configuration (no registry.json required), shadcn add / open in v0 compatible registry builder.

Karabiner Human Config

The easiest way to write Karabiner-Elements configuration files, ever!

pglaunch

Generate multiple PostgreSQL connection strings/databases using CLI for development environments!

github

Spacewall

Spacewall is an open-source, Linktree-like website builder.

Awesome Templates

Explore a curated collection of up-to-date templates for various projects and frameworks, refreshed every 8 hours.

rdt.li

Self hostable, feature rich, minimalistic and open source URL shortener.

writing

A Biography Written in Code

The résumé is the clean version. The real one is six years, 250 repositories, and the path from shell scripts to AI-agent infrastructure, the mistakes and patterns behind the output. Read it if you want to understand how I think, not just what I shipped.

hire me

I'm best suited for teams building ambitious products with a small, high-agency engineering group. I can own features end to end, move between frontend and backend without handoff friction, and build the internal tooling that keeps a team fast, especially with TypeScript-heavy systems, AI product workflows, developer experience, monorepos, scraping and data pipelines, or turning early ambiguity into something shippable.

AI product engineer · Senior full-stack engineer · Founding engineer · Developer-experience engineer · Developer-tools engineer · Platform / product engineer · TypeScript / Next.js engineer

The speed of a builder, the taste of someone who maintains tools for other developers, and the judgment that comes from shipping enough software to know where the sharp edges are.

hobbies

When I'm not coding, you'll find me consuming content and playing games. This year, I want to travel more and explore new places.

Lost touch with fitness somewhere along the way - working on getting back to it.

connect

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