I build for the web with a craftsman's patience — precise, deliberate, and made to last.
currently → Full-Stack Developer
I'm Nikhil — most people online know me as RYZRR. I'm a full-stack developer who fell for the web the way some people fall for a craft: slowly, then all at once.
These days most of my work happens in the open. Since March 2026 I've had 50+ pull requests merged across the webpack organisation — webpack.js.org, webpack-doc-kit, and webpack itself — plus a few in Node.js's documentation tooling. This year I'm doing it properly, as a Google Summer of Code '26 contributor rebuilding webpack's documentation website.
When I'm not in someone else's codebase, I'm building my own. Liveboard is an open-source API observability platform; AlgoWise turns interview prep into a system instead of a grind. Both taught me more than any tutorial could — mostly that shipping is a skill of its own.
The tools I reach for. A weapon is only as good as the hand that wields it — I keep these sharp.
作A self-hostable API observability platform — the open-source pieces you'd otherwise assemble from Datadog, Sentry and a status page. One line of middleware gives you live request metrics, distributed traces, error tracking and AI-written incident summaries, streaming over WebSockets. Multi-tenant, with SDKs for both Node and Python.
作Technical interview prep, company by company. Tracks 1,263+ tagged problems across 187 companies, schedules re-reviews on a forgetting curve, scores how ready you are for a specific company, and runs live 1v1 coding duels in an in-browser editor.
webpack · Node.js
Hackathons & collaborative builds
Self-taught
A few things the work has taught me — the kind of lessons you only learn by shipping, breaking, and trying again.
The clever solution feels great for a week. The simple one is still readable a year later. I optimise for the version of me who comes back later, confused.
A shipped B+ beats a perfect draft that never leaves the branch. Real feedback only lives in production.
The fastest way to level up was to stop guessing and open the library. Everything is just code someone else wrote.
Frameworks change; the browser, the network, and data structures don't. Time spent on basics pays interest forever.
The forge is always warm. Here's what's on the anvil right now.
A B2B SaaS tool for D2C fashion founders. My main product bet — everything I've learned about shipping, pointed at a real business problem.
My GSoC '26 project. A schema-driven pipeline that generates docs from webpack's own validation schema, so the pages can't quietly drift away from the code.
Never re-explain yourself to an AI again. An experiment in persistent project context — currently on its second, pivoted design.
A Japanese-inspired home on the web, hand-built with Next.js, Motion and a lot of tea.
Algorithms are the kata of this craft — the same forms, repeated until the hand knows them. I solve in C++, and I write down what each one taught me.
Every square is a day at the forge. I care more about showing up than about any single burst — consistency is its own kind of craft.