Creator of NexaDB, SlatePlan, DBView, DBCraft | Built 25+ Products | Tech Architect Behind 5+ Startups
| $12.8B+ Unicorn Valuation Built |
£500m+ Payments Processed |
£50bn Mortgages Tracked |
10M+ Merchants & Users Served |
| 20 → 200+ Engineering Team Scaled |
15+ Years Experience |
5+ Startups Founded |
25+ Personal Projects |
| 1.5M AI Translations < $100K |
100K/sec Peak Requests |
PCI DSS v4.0.1 in 10 Weeks |
Top 1% Topmate |
Transforming UK fintech infrastructure and product to help homeowners become mortgage-free faster. Half a million users. £50bn in tracked mortgages. £35m through the platform every month. I lead Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security and Compliance, and set the roadmap with the founders.
- 📈 Grew monthly transaction volume 20x, from £1.6m to £35m in 16 months
- 💳 Built payment infrastructure that has moved over £500m
- 🐉 Carried Sprive through Dragons' Den: 100K requests a second, zero downtime, #1 in UK App Store Finance
- 🔐 Took Sprive to PCI DSS v4.0.1 in 10 weeks, isolated CDE and tokenised card capture
- 🔑 Shipped Passkeys, now used by over half of active users
- 💰 Cut AWS spend 42% in four months, saving over $100K a year
- 🤝 Built a referral platform in two weeks that drives 40% of new customers
- 🤖 Launched AI support that resolves 40% of tickets on its own and assists on 90%
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| NexaDB | Database for AI developers. Vector search, TOON format, 25K+ ops/sec at 0.039ms. Source |
| SlatePlan | Sprint planning without the clutter. Table, board, timeline and burndown over one sprint, with git branch auto-linking. Runs delivery at Sprive |
| Karcha | Shared expense tracking. Snap a receipt, text the Telegram bot or paste from WhatsApp, in any currency |
| Staffelog | Meal issuance tracking for canteens. A barcode per ID card, so nobody collects the same meal twice |
| Utilee | 12 browser tools for video makers. Speech timing, teleprompter, SRT and VTT, safe zones, timecodes |
| DBView | Native macOS SQL client. AI-powered editor, ERD visualization, SSH tunneling |
| DBCraft | Open source data dashboard platform. Rust backend, 20+ chart types, self-hosted. In production at Sprive, cutting reporting from a week to under 10 minutes |
| Control Tower | macOS menu bar app tracking AI assistant usage across 6+ providers. Source |
| JsonToonCraft | 10+ dev tools. JSON to TS/Zod/OpenAPI, JWT debug, Base64, 100% client-side |
| Repo | Description |
|---|---|
| nexadb | NoSQL database with built-in vector search, TOON format and enterprise security |
| nexa-cli | The CLI for NexaDB |
| nexaclient · java · python | Official NexaDB clients |
| ControlTower | macOS menu bar app for AI coding assistant usage, quotas and costs |
| homebrew-tap | Homebrew tap for my projects |
| url-scraper | Finds URLs in text, scrapes them, returns structured page info |
| virtual-scroll | Virtual scrolling message list with optimal DOM usage |
- 🥇 National Ethical Hacking Champion 2013 | Student of the Year | Best Engineer Award
- 🌟 Top 1% on Topmate | 4 Academic Excellence Medals
- 🚀 Founded: Haifriend (2011), Heartynote, OneBharat, GrowJS, BookOn, WittyClip + 12 more
- 💰 $12.8B+ Combined Valuation (BharatPe + Blinkit) | $10M OneBharat Valuation
- ⚡ 10x Productivity @ Praavi | 12x Faster CI/CD @ BharatPe
- 🤖 20K AI Doctors | 1.5M Translations | 7 Production AI Systems @ Jivi AI
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Frontend & Mobile
AI/ML
Cloud & DevOps
Data
"See you soon on Mars."