Headline

Frontend Engineer @ Omnistrate (YC23). Writing about frontend systems, outages, and how software works behind the scenes.

About

Most systems are easier to understand once you trace the chain of events. A configuration changed. A dependency behaved differently. A queue filled up. A small assumption met a larger system. I write about how software works underneath the headline. Some posts examine outages and the mechanisms behind them. Others break down one part of an architecture, a database, a model, or a frontend system. I am a frontend engineer at Omnistrate (YC23), where I build the interface for software distribution. I write from experience when the subject is frontend architecture, design systems, graph interfaces, TypeScript migration, testing, or developer experience. For topics outside that, I read the original sources carefully and try to explain what the sources say without pretending I operated the system myself. The aim is simple: useful explanations, accurate claims, and no unnecessary jargon.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

elevenlabs

hugging face

railway

Work experience

Software Engineer at Omnistrate, Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at Rupicard (Arthvit), Aug 2023 - Nov 2023 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Back-end Developer (Intern) at iMax Global Ventures Pvt Ltd., Dec 2020 - Jun 2021 · 7 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Public links

github: https://github.com/nihalmohammed18