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Software Engineer

Anurag
Nigam

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I build web experiences that are fast, elegant, and production-hardened. 3.5+ years shipping at scale.

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Bengaluru, IN
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About

Engineering with craft and conviction

I care about the full picture: not just making things work, but making them fast, maintainable, and a pleasure to use.

Currently at SpotDraft building complex legal-tech UI systems
Previously founding engineer at Janitri, building real-time labor monitoring for hospitals
Obsessed with performance: dependency graphs, memoization, topological sorting
B.Tech ECE, Ramaiah University, Bangalore (CGPA 8.29)
Working on billion-dollar ideas on weekends 🚀
GitHub ProfileLinkedInme@anuragnigam.in
0.5+

Years experience

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Hospitals impacted

0+

Features shipped

0%

Latency reduction

Primary stack

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsNode.jsAWSFigmaReduxReact Query
Experience

Where I've built things

From founding-stage startups to growth-stage product companies. I've owned complex features end-to-end.

SpotDraft

Full-time

Software Engineer

Aug 2024 - Present · Bengaluru, KA

5s → 50ms99% improvement
10+end-to-end
  • Leading a foundational initiative to rethink how contracts are created on the platform (in progress)
  • Built Computation Builder & Library: a VS Code-like editor with a TypeScript-like evaluation language, enabling customers to self-serve complex computations
  • Optimized contract creation workflows using dependency graphs, memoization, and topological sorting, achieving 99% latency improvement (5s to 50ms)
  • Owned and delivered 10+ medium to large frontend features from technical design through production
  • Designed modular frontend libraries in a micro-frontend monorepo using OOP-based abstractions
  • Participated in frontend on-call, debugging production performance and reliability issues
  • Mentored juniors through architecture walkthroughs and code reviews
ReactTypeScriptMicro-frontendOOPDependency Graphs

Janitri Innovations

Full-time

Founding Product Engineer

Mar 2023 - Apr 2024 · Bengaluru, KA

400+live deployments
80%improvement
20%via code splitting

Realate

Side Project

Founder

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024

Hart

Founder

Founder & CTO

Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · Bengaluru, KA

GSF '22Winter cohort
Top 200founders nationally

Fountain9

Internship

Frontend Developer Intern

Sept 2022 - Feb 2023 · Remote

Omniflo

Internship

Software Developer Intern

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · Remote

Projects

Things I've built

A selection of projects spanning AI automation, blockchain tools, and developer utilities.

Live Product

Zpply.in

AI-powered job application automation

Continuously scans job boards, matches relevant opportunities using rule-based and ML-assisted criteria, and auto-submits applications for scalable workflow automation.

Next.jsDjangoAWSReact QueryTypeScriptClaude AI
Live Demo
Open Source

Voyager

Blockchain transaction explorer

A React-based replica of the Voyager transaction explorer interface with custom infinite scroll, conditional navigation logic, and tooltip-rich transaction detail views.

ReactTailwind CSSInfinite ScrollREST APIs
Source
Open Source

Folder File Browser

VS Code-like file navigation

A TypeScript React app that replicates the file/folder browsing experience of VS Code with an expandable tree structure, configurable file hierarchy, and editor-like UX.

ReactTypeScriptCSS
Source
Full Stack

Chat App

Real-time messaging platform

Full-stack real-time chat application with WebSocket-powered instant messaging, user authentication, and a clean, responsive UI.

ReactNode.jsWebSocketsMongoDB
Source
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Skills

Technology I work with

From UI systems and state management to cloud infrastructure and observability.

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsReduxReact QueryTailwind CSSNode.jsExpress.jsAngularRxJSFramer MotionWebpackReactTypeScriptNext.jsReduxReact QueryTailwind CSSNode.jsExpress.jsAngularRxJSFramer MotionWebpack
AWSFigmaPostgreSQLMongoDBFirebaseDockerJestDatadogGitREST APIsGraphQLVercelAWSFigmaPostgreSQLMongoDBFirebaseDockerJestDatadogGitREST APIsGraphQLVercel

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer MotionReduxReact QueryAngularRxJS

Backend & Infra

Node.jsExpress.jsAWS (EC2, S3, Lambda)PostgreSQLMongoDBFirebaseREST APIs

Tools & Process

GitFigmaJestDatadogGoogle AnalyticsJIRAWebpackVite

Fundamentals

DSAOOPSystem DesignPerformance OptimizationResponsive DesignAccessibility
Writing

Thoughts on engineering

I write about frontend architecture, performance, and the craft of building at scale.

ReactPerformanceMedium

React: Diffing Algorithm, Keys and Why You Should Not Use Index as Key

A deep dive into how React's reconciliation engine works under the hood: why keys matter, how the diffing algorithm uses them, and the three concrete problems that arise when you use array indices instead of stable identifiers.

May 16, 20245 min read
PerformanceDSALinkedIn

Frontend is Not Just Changing Button Colors: Real DSA in Production

How I used dependency graphs, BFS, topological ordering, and memoization to fix a multi-second UI lag at SpotDraft. The DSA concepts from interview prep have very real applications in frontend engineering.

September 10, 20243 min read
TutorialProductivityMedium

Setting Up Your Custom Email for Free

A step-by-step guide to getting a professional custom email address without paying for a plan. Because me@anuragnigam.in hits different than gmail.

January 16, 20254 min read
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Contact

Let's build something
exceptional.

If something here resonates, let's talk. Currently based in Bengaluru, India.

me@anuragnigam.in
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Anurag Nigam

Built with Next.js, Framer Motion, and care for every device.

Bengaluru, India