Ledger
A real-time financial dashboard for finance teams, streaming transaction data over WebSockets with sub-second latency at scale.
Software Engineer — Full Stack
Hi, I'm Nihar Debnath —
I build resilient software.
I design and build the systems behind products people use every day, from the interface down to the infrastructure underneath it.
About
A bit about how I work
I'm a software engineer based in Bengaluru, working across the stack — React and Next.js on the front end, Node.js and PostgreSQL underneath. Over the past six years I've shipped products for startups and scale-ups, mostly focused on systems that stay fast and easy to change as they grow.
Outside client work, I maintain a couple of open-source tools and write about the trade-offs I run into: caching strategies, type-safe APIs, the usual suspects. I'd rather leave behind a codebase that's still pleasant to work in a year from now than one that just looks clever today.
Location
Bengaluru, India
Focus
Full-Stack & Systems
Experience
6 Years
Status
Open to roles
Skills
What I bring to a team
Proficiency, roughly self-assessed — the kind of number you'd actually trust in an interview.
Frontend
React95%
TypeScript92%
Next.js90%
CSS / Tailwind88%
Backend
Node.js90%
REST API Design92%
PostgreSQL85%
GraphQL80%
Cloud & DevOps
Docker85%
AWS82%
CI / CD80%
Kubernetes70%
Tools & Practice
Git95%
Testing (Jest/Playwright)85%
System Design80%
Agile / Scrum88%
Redis
Stripe API
gRPC
WebSockets
Figma
Vite
Prisma
Terraform
Featured Projects
Things I've shipped
A selection of recent work — production systems, not just prototypes.
Pathwright
A visual workflow builder that lets operations teams automate approvals without writing code, built on a queue-backed execution engine.
Strata
A multi-tenant API platform with usage-based billing, handling metering and invoicing for several mid-market SaaS customers.
Fieldnotes
An open-source, local-first markdown knowledge base with full-text search compiled to WebAssembly for fast in-browser queries.
Experience
Where I've worked
Six years, four roles, one running theme: making systems easier to change.
2023 — Present
Senior Software Engineer
Northwind Labs
Leading the platform team rebuilding the company's core API on a service-oriented architecture. Cut median response time by 40% and onboarded four engineers onto the new stack.
2021 — 2023
Software Engineer
Brightloop
Built the customer-facing dashboard from scratch using React and GraphQL, taking it from prototype to 50,000 monthly active users.
2019 — 2021
Frontend Developer
Studio Nine
Worked across a dozen client projects, specializing in performance and accessibility audits for marketing sites.
2018 — 2019
Junior Developer
Codeforge
Started out maintaining internal tooling, and learned firsthand how production software actually breaks.
Testimonials
What people say about working with me
Nihar has the rare ability to ship fast without leaving a mess behind. Every pull request came with the context I needed to review it in minutes, not hours.
Priya Nair
Engineering Manager, Northwind Labs
We brought Nihar in to untangle a system nobody wanted to touch. Three months later it was the most documented part of our entire codebase.
Marcus Webb
CTO, Brightloop
Good engineers solve problems. Nihar asks whether it's the right problem first, which has saved us more time than any single optimization.
Sara Lindqvist
Product Lead, Studio Nine
Contact
Let's build something
Open to senior full-stack roles and select freelance projects. The fastest way to reach me is email — I read everything that comes in.
Email
hello@Niharavery.devLocation
Bengaluru, India (Remote-friendly)
Response Time
Within 1–2 business days