Why I'm Starting a Blog on My Portfolio Site
- career
- nextjs
- writing
- product
I have spent years building products across web, mobile, and AI — not as side experiments, but as real systems people use. Stock-market platforms like ShareBigya and Bigya PMS. DevReady AI on the web — helping non-technical founders turn ideas into development-ready plans with AI-assisted briefs, features, and Kanban workflows. Inspect AI for analysis and review workflows. React plugins for WordPress that bring modern component patterns into legacy CMS setups. Mobile products like XO Sports — an AI-powered sports predictions app built around data science, real-time models, and a polished consumer experience. And this portfolio — live economy data, calculators, and the blog you are reading now.
What I have written less often is the story behind the code: how I grew, what broke, and what I would do differently.
How I've been growing
My path was not a straight line. I started in mechanical engineering, worked in automotive service, then bet on software — teaching myself HTML, CSS, and JavaScript the hard way. Each layer of the stack made the next easier: from firefighting production bugs to designing APIs, shipping Next.js apps, and mentoring others as a senior software engineer.
Growth, for me, has looked like widening the surface area without losing depth:
- Early on: learning to ship anything that compiled (or sort of compiled).
- Middle: owning features end-to-end — UI, API, deployment, and client communication.
- Now: picking the right surface per problem — web (DevReady AI), mobile (XO Sports), WordPress plugins, fintech dashboards, or AI tooling — and documenting the trade-offs so the next build starts smarter.
The longer arc is on My Story.
What I've been building
AI on the web
DevReady AI — AI-powered app planning for founders who are not full-time engineers: surveys, DevReady Briefs, modules, user stories, acceptance criteria, and visual Kanban planning so ideas become a clear roadmap before code starts.
Inspect AI — tooling focused on inspection, analysis, and making complex systems easier to reason about.
WordPress + React
Custom React plugins for WordPress — shipping interactive UI inside ecosystems that were never designed for SPAs. That work taught me backwards compatibility, admin UX, and release discipline.
Mobile
XO Sports — AI sports predictions with a data-science engine, verified accuracy claims, and real-time model updates; the kind of product where mobile UX, subscriptions, and store releases matter as much as the algorithm.
Fintech and data
ShareBigya — charts, market movement, and portfolio thinking for investors. Bigya PMS — enterprise portfolio management for capitals and teams that need more than spreadsheets.
This site
Gold, forex, and vegetable rates, financial calculators, and this blog — shipping in public while the other products keep moving.
What you'll find on this blog
- Engineering craft — Next.js, React, APIs, and maintainable systems.
- Product building — web, mobile, WordPress, and AI from idea to launch.
- Career growth — from mechanical engineering to senior software engineering.
- Fintech and economy — building in Nepal's data and financial space.
How posts get published
New articles are drafted on a schedule (often with an agent), opened as a pull request, and only go live after I review them.
Want a deep dive on DevReady AI, XO Sports, WordPress plugins, or Inspect AI? Say hi via the contact section — I keep a topic queue in the repo and pull from it when I can.
Thanks for reading. More soon.