// things I've built
Projects & products
The work I own end-to-end — a startup product, a launched platform, and the systems-level bets I'm making as I go deeper into fundamentals and AI.
Zest
2023 — 2025Founder & Lead Engineer
An HR & business-operations SaaS built from zero over ~20 months. Multi-domain by design — payroll, finance, people ops and project management — with approval-flow transactions, survey queues, project analytics, and a real migration & CI discipline underneath.
iaminnepal
2026Solo build
A Nepal travel & tourism platform taken zero-to-deployed in ~6 weeks: bookings, payments, internationalization, SSR info pages with SEO, a Sanity content studio, and a Nepal data layer — all running on self-hosted Supabase infra with a GitHub Actions deploy pipeline.
mini_db
2026A database engine written from scratch in C++ — SQL parser landed, building toward indexing, persistence, and a query executor. My deepest dive into the fundamentals.
databridge-api-gateway
2025An event-driven API gateway: centralized authentication, authorization and routing across Customer, Order, Product and Analytics services, with rate limiting implemented.
SkillRx
2025Open-source contribution to a Ruby for Good nonprofit project — added Taggable and LocalizedTaggable concerns to support localized tagging.
More on github.com/Niraj22