hello,
prashant here
always learning
experience
Blink
founder & software engineer
2026 aug ─ present
blink is a social app where every post, room and reply can be masked or under your real identity. built all of it: the react native app for ios and android, the typescript api on fastify, trpc and postgresql, background workers, and the photo and video pipeline. before launch, cut the feed's cold open from 4–5 seconds to near instant and fixed 32 of 35 findings from a security and privacy review, including all 3 critical ones. live on the app store and google play.
Kaguya
software engineer
2024 may ─ 2026 may
joined kaguya as its first engineer and built the original Next.js web app across discovery, user library, ratings and reviews, lists, profiles, and social features; later took sole engineering ownership across the Elixir/GraphQL/PostgreSQL backend, web, and mobile, and led the pivot to visual novels. before the pivot, the app reached 2,200+ users; launch posts drew 1.7K+ upvotes on r/webdev and 250+ points and 210+ comments on hacker news.
undef studio
full stack developer
2023 may ─ 2024 may
built a cms on t3 stack (next.js, typeScript, trpc, prisma, postgres) with secure admin authentication and multi-tenant data isolation. implemented vector search for image recognition using open-source libraries (deepface, python) as cost-effective alternative to aws rekognition. also built an electron desktop app that uploaded 10k+ images to s3 with pause/resume and exponential-backoff retries for unstable networks.
projects
2026 jun ─ 2026 jul
a redis-inspired in-memory database in python with a single-threaded selectors event loop, resp2 pipelining, custom skip-list sorted sets, optimistic transactions, expiration and eviction, pub/sub, and snapshot recovery.
posts
skills
- typeScript, javascript, elixir, python, sql
- node.js, fastify, trpc, prisma, postgres, supabase, phoenix, graphQL (absinthe)
- react, react native (expo), next.js, apollo client, electron, tailwind css
- docker, gitHub actions, aws (s3, ec2), cloudflare, fly.io, hetzner, sentry, grafana
- claude code, codex, cursor, claude design
education
BITS Pilani
b.sc. in computer science
2029 (expected)
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