// 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.

Flagship

Zest

2023 — 2025

Founder & 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.

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Sidekiq CodeQL CI

~35 PRs · multi-year product private repo

Launched-grade

iaminnepal

2026

Solo 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.

Next.js TypeScript Sanity Supabase i18n

Full platform · self-hosted infra View

WIP

mini_db

2026

A database engine written from scratch in C++ — SQL parser landed, building toward indexing, persistence, and a query executor. My deepest dive into the fundamentals.

C++ Parsers Storage

Demo

databridge-api-gateway

2025

An event-driven API gateway: centralized authentication, authorization and routing across Customer, Order, Product and Analytics services, with rate limiting implemented.

Ruby Event-driven Rate limiting

Merged · OSS

SkillRx

2025

Open-source contribution to a Ruby for Good nonprofit project — added Taggable and LocalizedTaggable concerns to support localized tagging.

Rails Open source