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01About

I'm Hitanshu Jariwala, a developer who cares about the details

Building things that work. Writing code that lasts.

I started with small React apps, learning by breaking them. What kept pulling me deeper was everything behind the interface: why a query got slow, how to make search understand a question instead of matching words, what happens when two people type at once. Eleven projects later, that's still where the work gets interesting.

Remove a step, don't add a screen

Most of what I've built started as something I was tired of repeating - auth boilerplate, four tabs open to run one shop, folders pretending to be search. The win is usually taking work away, not adding features.

Put a number on it

Sub-100ms message delivery. Profile search under a second. Doc lookup cut by 10×. I'd rather measure the thing than call it fast, because "fast enough" gets decided by the user otherwise.

Dependencies come last

Some of these run on plain React state with nothing else added. A package has to earn its bundle size, its upgrade path and the day it breaks - the ones you skip are the ones that never do.

02Toolkit

What I reach for

Grouped by the problem it solves rather than by popularity. Everything here has shipped something.

Languages

01
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • C++

Frontend

02
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui

Backend

03
  • Node.js
  • Bun
  • Hono
  • Express
  • Zod

Data

04
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Drizzle
  • Prisma

State & data fetching

05
  • TanStack Query
  • Zustand
  • Redux Toolkit

Auth

06
  • BetterAuth
  • Clerk
  • NextAuth

Infrastructure

07
  • Docker
  • Vercel
  • Firebase
  • Cloudinary

Tooling

08
  • Git
  • VS Code
  • Postman
  • Figma
03Timeline

Where I've been

Formal education on one side, the things I'm proudest of on the other.

  1. 2025Achievement

    1st place - Odoo × Charusat Hackathon

    Charusat University

    Built and demoed a working product against the clock, judged on both engineering and the problem it actually solved.

  2. 2022 — 2026Education

    B.Tech, Information Technology

    A. D. Patel Institute of Technology · CVM University

    Four years of fundamentals - data structures, networks, databases - alongside everything I taught myself shipping side projects at night.

  3. 2018 — 2022Education

    HSC & SSC, Science

    Smt. R.S.M. Poonawala Sarvajanik Experimental School

    Where the first 'how does this website work?' question started.

04Contact

Have something worth building ?

Tell me what you're making and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person for it.