
I like building software that brings order to complicated data and unclear requirements. At StockInsights AI, I work on systems for AI-driven financial products.
Aug 2024 – Present
I build the AI layer of an equity research platform: a RAG pipeline that auto-summarizes 25,000+ SEC and earnings filings a month, a multi-session AI chat system, and the frontend on top of both. Along the way I've migrated our full-text search off MongoDB Atlas, cut our Vercel bill ~80% by tracking down scraper traffic, and shipped the company's first recurring API revenue with Stripe metered billing.
An application that helps you club together multiple images and then generate an A/B image for you, that you can post anywhere to A/B test your ideas. Launched on Peerlist, where it reached the top 30 on the leaderboard, and fully open-sourced.
A web app that tracks your favourite Amazon products and notifies you when they hit their lowest price, using scheduled web scraping.
An image-to-text extractor built on Tesseract.js, running OCR client-side with Cloudinary handling uploads.
A headlines aggregator for India's top current affairs stories, and one of the first things I ever built, back in 2020.
I mostly write about tech and some personal thoughts on stuff I read.
Hanzalah's views on Open Source Software and contributing to OSS in the age of AI and coding harnesses. And how to participate in Google Summer of Code.
I'm looking into another best practice considered **CRITICAL** to improve performance when building React apps: **Bundle Size Optimization**.
In this blog post, I’ve discussed the **first and most critical category** from the skill: **Eliminating Waterfalls**. It’s one of the highest-leverage optimizations because sequential async work can silently add hundreds of milliseconds to your page load and API response times.
A real-world case study on updating multi-million row Postgres tables. Covers MVCC, TOAST, GIN indexes, and why rebuilding tables can be cheaper than updating them in place.
These are my notes of Neetcodes' awesome video on Bit Manipulation. I am going to try my best to express his ideas in my own words for the reader to understand and for me to practice expressing complex ideas in simpler terms using markdown.
I love reading. Here are some of my favorite books.