résumé

AI-native Product Engineer with 5+ years shipping production SaaS, developer tools, full-stack TypeScript systems, and AI agent infrastructure. Currently building AI-powered product surfaces and agent tooling at LightWork AI. Author of 250+ public repositories and open-source tools with 1,045+ GitHub stars, used by projects including TanStack, SST, Electric SQL, and Storybook. I learn by shipping, and I sweat build performance, type safety, and release automation.

New Delhi, India · nrjdalal.dev@gmail.com · github.com/nrjdalal · linkedin.com/in/nrjdalal

core strengths

AI product engineering and agent tooling
Full-stack SaaS architecture and type-safe TypeScript systems
React, Next.js, TanStack, Hono, Bun
Developer tools, CLIs, VS Code extensions, open source
AWS Lambda, serverless systems, queues, rate limiting
Scraping infrastructure and browser automation
Monorepos, CI/CD, release automation
0-to-1 product development in startup environments

experience

Product Engineer · LightWork AI · London, UK (Remote) · Jun 2025 – Present

Shipped 500+ pull requests across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product workflows on an AI-powered property-management platform.
Built AI agent tooling that lets the product take structured actions on behalf of users.
Led a major frontend redesign across core product surfaces, delivered incrementally behind feature flags.
Implemented internationalization across the redesigned product flows.
Improved build performance, CI reliability, and developer-experience tooling across the engineering team.

Product Engineer · Stealth AI Startup · Oct 2023 – May 2025

Early product engineer building a new AI product from 0 to 1 across the full stack.
Built frontend and backend features end to end, from product UI through APIs, data, and deployment.
Integrated LLM workflows into the core experience, turning AI prototypes into production capabilities.
Helped define the product's early technical foundation as part of a small engineering team.

Senior Developer · Warewe · New Delhi · Sep 2022 – Sep 2023

Built Hetrolinks, a SaaS for repairing broken Amazon affiliate links: engineered AWS Lambda as rotating proxies to bypass captcha for ~90% proxy-cost savings, plus a scraper covering 2,000+ pages in 5-10 min.
Re-architected the backend from Python to Node.js on AWS Lambda for ~50% better performance, with queueing and rate limiting for concurrent jobs.
Built SerpWe end to end: ran Puppeteer on Lambda over thousands of Google results, clustered keywords by SERP overlap to infer search intent, and wrote 100% of the Next.js admin dashboard.

Full-Stack Developer · VeroXyle · New Delhi · May 2020 – Aug 2022

Delivered and maintained 10+ client-facing web projects across frontend and backend.
Automated CI/CD pipelines (~40% faster deploys) and built nginx/Certbot deploy and server-management tooling that cut infra costs ~20%.
Standardized API patterns across projects, improving development turnaround ~30%.

Intern · SSIM Dwarka · New Delhi · Nov 2019 – Apr 2020

Built, deployed, and managed the website for the institute.

selected projects

1,045+ stars across ~250 public repositories. The strongest:

gitpick (311★) — TypeScript, Bun. A zero-dependency degit replacement that clones any file, folder, or branch by URL; used by TanStack Router, SST, Electric SQL, and Storybook.
zerostarter (52★) — Bun, Hono RPC, Better Auth, Drizzle, TanStack. A type-safe SaaS monorepo with shared types, one database schema, and self-healing release automation.
rdt.li (255★) — Next.js, Drizzle, Postgres. A self-hostable, open-source URL shortener with analytics, charts, and one-click deploy.
shadcn-ui snippets (117★) — VS Code, Bun. An editor extension for shadcn/ui snippets, 8,500+ installs, built via a Markdown-to-snippet pipeline.
smart-registry (27★) — TypeScript. A zero-config shadcn registry builder that auto-detects files and dependencies, removing most registry.json boilerplate.
onset (62★) — Next.js, Drizzle, Auth.js. A documented full-stack starter that teaches the architecture step by step.
karabiner-human-config (46★) — TypeScript. A human-readable Karabiner config compiler, listed among the official Karabiner-Elements generators.

skills

Languages — TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Python, Bash, HTML/CSS
Frontend — React, Next.js (App Router), TanStack Router/Query/Form, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Radix, React Hook Form, Zod, MDX, SSR/SSG, PWA, Accessibility, Web Vitals
Backend & APIs — Node.js, Bun, Hono (+ RPC), NestJS, Express, Elysia, tRPC, REST, OpenAPI/Scalar, WebSockets, Better Auth, queues, rate limiting, caching
Databases — PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, Prisma, MongoDB, Redis (Upstash)
AI — Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, OpenAI API, agent tooling (AGENTS.md, skills)
Cloud & Infra — AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, SES, CloudFront, API Gateway, IAM), SST + Pulumi, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Docker, nginx, headless browsers on Lambda
Tooling & Quality — Turborepo, Bun/pnpm workspaces, tsdown/tsup, oxlint/oxfmt, GitHub Actions (OIDC publishing), conventional commits, changesets, lefthook, Vitest, Playwright, PostHog

education

B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Delhi Technical Campus (GGSIPU), New Delhi · 2016–2020

the story behind the work

This is the clean version. The real one is messier and more useful: 250 repositories, six years of learning in public, and the path from shell scripts to systems like ZeroStarter, release automation, and AI-agent infrastructure. Read it if you want to understand how I think, not just what I shipped: A Biography Written in Code. Or head back home.