I'm Nirmaan. Software engineer at HSBC, and Pikujs Solutions for everything I build, break and self-host on my own machines. This is the workshop — the work is below.
MCP servers, debuggers, memory layers and orchestration for coding agents that have to work unattended — not demos that break on the second turn.
Full-stack builds where the backend is the hard part: APIs, data models, integrations, dashboards and the deploy pipeline behind them.
Your software on your metal. NixOS, self-hosted GitLab, monitoring, backups and TLS — the unglamorous layer that keeps the rest honest.
A cross-section, not the whole archive — seven things I built and can still talk you through.
Telegram as a client for the Agent Client Protocol — a coding agent you can drive from a chat window.
Music, made together — a web app for searching tracks and building playlists with other people.
B.Tech thesis: identify crop disease from aerial imagery and run the model on the drone, not in a datacentre.
Algorithmic trading strategies, backtested and honestly reported — including the ones that lose.
The Emacs configuration I actually type in — one file tree that has outlived four laptops.
Controller mappings for Mixxx: four decks, an alternative EQ layout, aux-in handling — built on the community mapping, for the way I actually play.
Four years filming and cutting for TFPS, IIT Kharagpur — the only work here with an audience reaction you can hear.
Newest first. The IIT years get their own block below, because everything in them overlaps.
September 2020 to now. Enterprise software, in a bank.
Summer 2019.
Winter 2018.
2016 to 2020 — the degree, and the things I did around it.
IIT Kharagpur, 2016 to 2020.
Final year project: deep learning for crop disease, deployed on the drone itself.
Camera, edit and the unglamorous parts. August 2016 to April 2020.
October 2016 to April 2018.
I'm Nirmaan — the whole of Pikujs Solutions. B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, software engineer at HSBC since 2020.
Everything here runs on machines I look after myself. When someone asks whether a stack holds up in production, the answer comes from a box in my own rack, not a slide.
Off the clock: trekking, skiing, and a guitar that's better than my singing.
Guitar, mountains, and the playlists that run while everything else compiles. More photos as I dig them out.
Tell me the problem, not the solution. I reply within a day — usually with a question you'll wish I hadn't asked.
