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Independent software engineer in India. Products, AI agents and developer tools — built precisely, documented clearly, and handed over clean.
Three habits behind everything on this page.
Every number on this site traces to code, a public source, or work I can walk you through. The work runs the same way: measurable outcomes, written decisions, no hand-waving.
Good software feels quiet — fast, predictable, easy to change. The aim is always the version that is boring to operate.
Draw the system before building it: data, boundaries, failure modes. The drawing becomes the plan, then the documentation.
Before code, the system: what flows where, what can fail, what the reader of the code will need. Here is devDocs v4, the documentation engine I’m rebuilding now — solid lines are built and tested, dashed ones are next.
planned“devdocs estimate” shows the requests and the cost first; “devdocs run” spends it, within a ceiling.
A gitignore-aware walk classifies every file; parsers read Python and five more languages.
plannedA zero-token score picks the files worth a model. The rest get accurate stubs from the parser.
Each job gets the cheapest capable model under a hard budget; cached answers make unchanged files free.
plannedRetrieval brings in the neighbouring code a prompt needs; one document model renders Markdown, HTML and PDF.
Two open-source developer tools on PyPI and npm, a heritage platform that shipped and was later acquired, a desktop assistant with a memory, and a rules-first allocation engine.
A CLI that documents a whole codebase — now being rebuilt to spend tokens only where they buy understanding.
6.1kdownloads on PyPI, all versions
All-time total from pepy.tech, which also counts mirrors and CI installs. Six releases since July 2025.
A virtual museum for 100+ heritage sites of the Braj region — grant-funded, shipped, later acquired.
100+heritage sites mapped
A desktop assistant with memory and web search — on its way to an agent that can talk, and act with your permission.
20past messages reloaded when it starts
load_history(limit=20) in memoryDB.py, passed to the chat session as history.
A rules-first momentum allocation engine across equity, gold and cash.
~10×over 20 years, in backtest
Read off the author’s own backtest chart (the cover), posted in August 2025; Nifty 50 ended near 12× and gold near 8× over the same years. Not a forecast.
Policy-based request tracing for Express, in one line of middleware.
1line to adopt
app.use(createTraceRequest())
Production work alongside product teams — measured by what changed, not by title.
2025 – now
Client products across web, mobile and AI
2025
Vidhi 7.0 — a legal-AI platform
2024 – 25
Grant-funded heritage platform
2024 – 26
Teaching computer science
Odoo Combat Hackathon 2024 — Top 1% of 2,500+ teams in a 36-hour build.
Four kinds of work, one way of doing it. Every engagement ends with software your team can own.
Web products from first sketch to production — React and Next.js front ends, Node and Nest back ends, Postgres underneath.
Assistants, retrieval and tool-calling agents that do real work inside your product, with guardrails and costs you can see.
CLIs, SDKs, middleware and internal tools your engineers will actually keep installed.
Untangling slow or fragile code — profiling, refactors, auth and data-flow fixes — without stopping the product.
A calm way in
A short, fixed-scope look at your architecture and codebase, ending in a written roadmap: what to keep, what to fix first, and what it would take. A calm way to start working together.
Understand the problem, the people and the constraints before touching a line of code.
Draw it first — data, boundaries, failure modes — and agree on it together.
Small, reviewable steps with a working version early and visible progress every week.
Documentation, tests and a walkthrough, so your team owns it from day one.
Straight answers
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Web products, cross-platform apps, AI and agent features, and developer tooling — from open-source CLIs on PyPI and npm to client CRM and ERP products and a legal-AI platform.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node, NestJS and AdonisJS for products; Flutter for cross-platform apps; Python for tooling, data and quantitative work; PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis for data; Gemini, Claude, retrieval (RAG) and the Vercel AI SDK for AI features.
Yes — for freelance and contract projects. The fastest way in is an email to gantavyaoo@gmail.com with the problem, timeline and a budget range.
With an email and a short conversation. Larger or uncertain projects often start with a fixed-scope System review, so both sides know exactly what they are signing up for.
IST (UTC+5:30). Working hours overlap comfortably with Europe and with US mornings or evenings.
गंतव्यmeans “destination”.
I’m Gantavya — an engineer from the Braj region of India, the place Mero Braj set out to map. I like problems that arrive tangled and leave calm: a codebase nobody documented, a platform that has to run on a cheap phone, a rule that must hold through a market crash.
Off the keyboard it’s mountains, coffee experiments, reading the markets, and teaching — five hundred hours of it so far. This site is the path; if you have a project in mind, it could be the next stop.
— Gantavya
Independent software engineer
Now
Off the clock
Interlude
Tap the water for a drop of ink. Hold still for a pebble.
The next destination
Tell me what you’re building, where it hurts and when it needs to be calm. One email is enough to start.
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