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nischal nikit

I build things that live on the internet.
I also write & talk about those things.
This is my corner of the web.
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About Me

I am a web/app engineer based out of Bengaluru, India.
I try to build delightful experiences on the web and mobile.

Currently, I am working as a Senior UI Engineer at Acko -- India's biggest digital insurance company. I am building for our Health and Life Insurance vertical.

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Work Experience

UI Engineer-II

Acko Insurance

July, 2024 - Current

I am working as Senior UI Engineer in the Health & Life Insurance vertical.

SDE-I

Jupiter Money

July, 2022 - June, 2024

I worked on the app side for Customer Success(CS) at Jupiter, building solutions to power all use cases, streamlining agent-customer interactions, and improving support speeds. This pivotal role resulted in significant business impact, delivering cost savings in the tens of crores for the company.

Software Engineer

GeekyAnts India

Jul 2021 - Jun 2022

I served as the sole front-end engineer for a real-estate client based in North America in leading development for their existing web-based product built with Next.js, and Redux and also contributing to backend systems built with Express with PostgreSQL.

My Experiments

Finance Buddha

Finance Buddha is a loan-aggregator web application. Built with Nextjs and Strapi CMS at its core, you can check the offerings provided and sign up on their platform.

Cryptobase

Cryptobase is a chrome extension made for getting crypto trading as easy as checking a single notification. With CryptoBase, set alerts for trending cryptos, get details about any of the popular cryptos or know more about the trends in the trendings page.

New Yorker

New Yorker is a web application developed with New York Times API behind the scenes to search through its content, see top stories, look for categories, with data insights.

Writings

Inside WebSockets: Building a Chat Application.

"A deep dive into how a network protocol makes it possible for real-time communication to happen on the internet and leveraging it through a mini-app."

Build And Deploy a Fun, Modern Web3 Blockchain App - Step by Step Tutorial

In this Web3 tutorial, we'll be building a fully-functional blockchain, web3 App. We'll be starting with the basics of building a blockchain app and at the end, we'll get our web3 app live for everyone to use.

Building A Chrome Extension In 2021

In this article, we'll be creating a Chrome extension from scratch and go all the way to publishing it to the Chrome web store. We'll also be keeping everything as per the Manifest V3(MV3) framework while building our extension.

Talking about my work

Tackle Complex UI Flows In React Native Using XState

Delivered a talk at React Bangalore Meetup #76 at Razorpay, Bengaluru by sharing my experience working with the state management and orchestration tool, XState on April 20th, 2024.

Building a Server Driven UI with React

Delivered a talk at React Bangalore Meetup #70 at Flipkart, Bengaluru on Server-Driven UI and building a Server-Driven UI solution for your application on September 16th, 2023.

Intermediary Web3 Experiments

Delivered a talk at GeekyAnts Web3 Meetup on how to build decentralized applications while showcasing my personal project called "Pick Up Lines" on 2nd April, 2022.

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