Open to remote full-time roles
Full Stack Engineer
I build production systems across web, mobile, and infrastructure — then document what went wrong and why.
54 projects shipped·16+ years building·31+ posts published
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“Infrastructure is a product”
Built Mailcow/Nextcloud serving a 22-person team, replacing recurring SaaS spend
“Sub-50ms is the user-noticeable threshold”
Docsee’s async Rust core — every Docker operation under 50ms
“Self-hosting is a skill”
~20 million emails across 12 domains and 6 VPS, plus a mesh VPN — all self-hosted
I built my first game at 9. A 3D car racing game with enemy AI and mountain terrain. I didn’t know what “programming” was — I just wanted to make things.
Sixteen-plus years later, I’m still building. But now the stakes are higher — ~20 million emails flowing through infrastructure I designed across 6 VPS, 9 platforms running from a single codebase, 116 containers on one laptop.
I think of my laptop as my sword. Every system I architect, every tool I build, every line of code I write — it’s how I fight my battles.
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Frontend
TypeScriptReactNext.jsReact Native / ExpoTailwind CSSSvelteKitAstroFramer MotionGSAPThree.js / R3FOGL (WebGL)Swift / SwiftUIWidgetKitFlutter / DartQML / QtJava (Android)BrightScript / Roku
Backend & API
Node.jsBunElysiaRustActix-webRatatuiBollardnom (parsers)GraphQLWebSocketsBullMQTemporalNATSLaravel / PHP
Database & Storage
PostgreSQLDrizzle ORMRedis / DragonflyQdrantSQLite (WAL)MongoDBMinIO / S3MariaDBSupabase
Infrastructure
Docker + ComposeKubernetes + HelmGitHub ActionsCloudflareCaddyNginxTailscaleLinux (Arch / Ubuntu)PrometheusGrafanaMailcow / PostfixFlipt (feature flags)Infisical (secrets)
AI & Local Inference
Anthropic Claude SDKMCP SDK (280+ tools)Ollama / Llama 3Qdrant (vector search)Kokoro TTSWhisper STTFlux (image gen)RAG Pipelinesnomic-embed-text
Desktop & Systems
Tauri v2Nx / TurborepoXStatePlaywrightKarabiner-ElementsFuse.jsFFmpegGit / GitHubBash / Zsh
Platforms Shipped
Web (Next.js / SSR)iOS (React Native)Android (RN + Java)Apple TV (tvOS)Android TVLG webOSRoku (BrightScript)Samsung TizenmacOS (Tauri + Swift)Windows (Tauri)Linux (Tauri + TUI)Self-hosted infra
From The First Thing I Built Was a Game (2009) to Independent. Building. Open to Remote Roles. (2026) — every step shaped how I build today.
★2009
The First Thing I Built Was a Game
I was nine. Borrowed a copy of 3D RAD from a friend and built a car racing game from scratch — three difficulty levels, custom terrain, a track editor. Nobody told me programming was supposed to be hard.
3D RAD3D Modeling
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★2009
The First Thing I Built Was a Game
I was nine. Borrowed a copy of 3D RAD from a friend and built a car racing game from scratch — three difficulty levels, custom terrain, a track editor. Nobody told me programming was supposed to be hard.
3D RAD3D Modeling
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2012–2014
33 Machines, a Logo, and the First Public Thing
Ran my uncle's 33-machine cyber café through my early teens — installs, network, Counter-Strike servers, billing. Built my first public website in Webflow at 14 and designed the X mark I still use.
WindowsLAN NetworkingWebflowHTMLCSS
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2012–2014
33 Machines, a Logo, and the First Public Thing
Ran my uncle's 33-machine cyber café through my early teens — installs, network, Counter-Strike servers, billing. Built my first public website in Webflow at 14 and designed the X mark I still use.
WindowsLAN NetworkingWebflowHTMLCSS
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2015–2016
Gold Medal, Custom Keyboard, Cold Switch
Won Gold at the International Informatics Olympiad — self-studied from pocket money, no coaching. Same year I designed my own keyboard layout, X-Type, from a corpus of my own writing. Packaged it into an Android keyboard app and switched to it cold the next year. Currently at 213 WPM.
JavaScriptjQueryHTML5 CanvasJavaAndroid SDKLayout DesignCorpus Analysis
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2015–2016
Gold Medal, Custom Keyboard, Cold Switch
Won Gold at the International Informatics Olympiad — self-studied from pocket money, no coaching. Same year I designed my own keyboard layout, X-Type, from a corpus of my own writing. Packaged it into an Android keyboard app and switched to it cold the next year. Currently at 213 WPM.
JavaScriptjQueryHTML5 CanvasJavaAndroid SDKLayout DesignCorpus Analysis
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2016
Science Over Arts, and a Loss
The class-10 stream choice — chose science/maths over arts so I could go down the engineering path to game development. Same year I lost my grandfather and started reading philosophy on my own to figure out what I actually thought.
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2016
Science Over Arts, and a Loss
The class-10 stream choice — chose science/maths over arts so I could go down the engineering path to game development. Same year I lost my grandfather and started reading philosophy on my own to figure out what I actually thought.
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2021
Blender, Solo, on a Slow Laptop
Self-taught Blender during the COVID years — started with the donut tutorial and immediately diverged into original abstract motion pieces. Published the work on Instagram (@ddr4_karanveer).
BlenderCyclesGeometry Nodes
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2021
Blender, Solo, on a Slow Laptop
Self-taught Blender during the COVID years — started with the donut tutorial and immediately diverged into original abstract motion pieces. Published the work on Instagram (@ddr4_karanveer).
BlenderCyclesGeometry Nodes
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2022
First Real Clients, First Production Code
Started taking client work at twenty-two. Shipped seven commercial products as the sole developer — Next.js blogs, a Laravel reward app, a hotel management system, a real-time custom-product mockup tool.
Next.jsLaravelJavaKotlinXStateZustandGraphQL
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2022
First Real Clients, First Production Code
Started taking client work at twenty-two. Shipped seven commercial products as the sole developer — Next.js blogs, a Laravel reward app, a hotel management system, a real-time custom-product mockup tool.
Next.jsLaravelJavaKotlinXStateZustandGraphQL
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2023
Tried Building a Team. Wound It Down. Built DocSee Instead.
Recruited and personally taught a 7-person team across video editing, backend, ML, and marketing. Realised the team was scaling ahead of revenue and wound it down cleanly. Spent the rest of the year on Unity AI agents and DocSee — a Docker management tool in Rust.
Unity3DC#ML-AgentsRustTauriRatatui
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2023
Tried Building a Team. Wound It Down. Built DocSee Instead.
Recruited and personally taught a 7-person team across video editing, backend, ML, and marketing. Realised the team was scaling ahead of revenue and wound it down cleanly. Spent the rest of the year on Unity AI agents and DocSee — a Docker management tool in Rust.
Unity3DC#ML-AgentsRustTauriRatatui
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2024–2026
Three Flagships in Parallel
Built three production-grade solo products alongside the Prachyam role: Hotel Elegent (hotel management system with 111/111 end-to-end tests), Karmpath (a publishing platform with Lighthouse 100/100/100 on accessibility, best-practices, and SEO), and HeyBeautiful (a SaaS shipped in 41 days).
Next.jsTypeScriptXStatePlaywrightDrizzle ORMStripeAnthropic SDK
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2024–2026
Three Flagships in Parallel
Built three production-grade solo products alongside the Prachyam role: Hotel Elegent (hotel management system with 111/111 end-to-end tests), Karmpath (a publishing platform with Lighthouse 100/100/100 on accessibility, best-practices, and SEO), and HeyBeautiful (a SaaS shipped in 41 days).
Next.jsTypeScriptXStatePlaywrightDrizzle ORMStripeAnthropic SDK
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2025–2026
Lead Engineer at Prachyam, Sole Owner of Everything
Primary technical hire at Prachyam Studios from August 2025 to February 2026. Stabilised a broken live OTT platform built by 18+ developers, won the case for a ground-up rewrite, and built it solo — a 9-platform Nx monorepo for web, iOS, Android, four TV OSes, a Tauri admin, and a docs site. Also owned the self-hosted infrastructure: ~20 million emails through Mailcow across 12 domains, Nextcloud for the 22-person team, a 3-node Tailscale mesh, and local AI inference on office GPUs.
TypeScriptStrapiFlutterNxNext.jsReact NativeBunElysiaPostgreSQLMailcowTailscaleDocker
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2025–2026
Lead Engineer at Prachyam, Sole Owner of Everything
Primary technical hire at Prachyam Studios from August 2025 to February 2026. Stabilised a broken live OTT platform built by 18+ developers, won the case for a ground-up rewrite, and built it solo — a 9-platform Nx monorepo for web, iOS, Android, four TV OSes, a Tauri admin, and a docs site. Also owned the self-hosted infrastructure: ~20 million emails through Mailcow across 12 domains, Nextcloud for the 22-person team, a 3-node Tailscale mesh, and local AI inference on office GPUs.
TypeScriptStrapiFlutterNxNext.jsReact NativeBunElysiaPostgreSQLMailcowTailscaleDocker
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2026
Independent. Building. Open to Remote Roles.
Closed the Prachyam chapter cleanly in February 2026 when the company's direction shifted. Spent the months since on this portfolio, on my local AI stack, and on writing publicly about the work. Open to senior remote engineering roles — full-time preferred, contract considered.
DockerOllamaTailscaleNext.jsRust
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2026
Independent. Building. Open to Remote Roles.
Closed the Prachyam chapter cleanly in February 2026 when the company's direction shifted. Spent the months since on this portfolio, on my local AI stack, and on writing publicly about the work. Open to senior remote engineering roles — full-time preferred, contract considered.
DockerOllamaTailscaleNext.jsRust
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What collaborators, clients, and community say after working together.
“Karanveer built both our blogging platform and the TrendCollab Media agency site. He understood what the business needed without me having to spell it out, and delivered something that just works.”
ClientManish Sharma
CEO @ TrendCollab Media
“We needed software to actually run the hotel, not just a website. Karanveer delivered a platform that our team uses every day without friction.”
ClientDev Sikarwar
Owner & Manager @ Hotel Elegent Ranthambore
“Whatever we needed at Prachyam Studios — the OTT build, the self-hosted mesh, the tooling — Karanveer delivered it and kept it running. Deeply dependable.”
PUClientPrashant Upadhyay
Head of Marketing & Strategy @ Prachyam Studios
“As someone from the TV side, not tech, I needed a developer who'd listen. Karanveer built exactly the OTT platform and tools we described — and made it easy.”
RTClientRochna Tiwari
Director & Producer @ Television & Film
“Karanveer delivered the Akku Healthcare platform that supported our pivot to healthcare. Clean, professional, and built with the end users in mind.”
PAClientPrerit Agarwal
Director @ Ambasler Industries (OPC) Pvt Ltd
“Karanveer built the Kanishka Creations app for my customized-products business. It made it far easier for customers to reach us and see what we offer.”
BSClientBhanwar Singh Jadaun
Owner @ Kanishka Creations
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Field notes, tutorials, and the occasional retrospective from the build.
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