Builder at core, engineer by craft
Founding software engineer at Emergent YC S24 · Bangalore, India
Two accounts, one person — @notpritam (personal) and @notpritamm (day job). Merged graph below.
I build calm, fast products — from scratch and at scale.
Right now I'm a founding software engineer at Emergent (YC S24), the AI app builder that went from YC Demo Day to a $1.5B valuation in ~14 months — $130M Series C (Jul 2026), $120M annual run-rate, 200K+ paying customers, India's 6th unicorn of 2026.
I own the frontend there. For most of the foundation phase that meant one of two people carrying every product surface, shipping 3–4 features a day.
- 🧱 3+ years shipping production · 12+ products end-to-end · millions of users reached
- 🤖 Most of what I build now is AI product engineering — LLM apps, agents, and the tooling around them
- 🌏 Bangalore, India · IST (UTC+5:30) · he/him
- 🤝 Open to interesting collaborations — say hi
| Core chat experience | Rebuilt it and shipped to production in a week with zero functional regressions |
| Emergent mobile | Sole developer — ported the full web platform to React Native + Expo, driving $20K+/day |
| Performance | Cut page load from 7s → under 1s |
| Light theme | Drove a +15% conversion lift and measurably better retention |
| Landing page editor | JSON → static HTML. Compressed 1–2 week marketing cycles to 20 minutes, pages served in 0.3s |
| Visual Edit Mode | Customize your app without AI — no credits burned. Working POC in 1 day |
| AI PR review system | Self-learning feedback loop — review turnaround 2h → 20min |
| Design system | Automated it so designers ship UI fixes themselves, with zero engineering involvement |
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| personae | AI avatar platform — autonomous personas on Instagram, Telegram & X, with voice and face generation | React Hono Claude API ElevenLabs |
| forge | Self-improving AI video pipeline — stage-gated, 5 renderers, 130+ viral rules distilled from 35+ sources | Remotion Manim Three.js FFmpeg |
| lorekeeper | AI story workbench — versioned character state and knowledge matrices for narrative consistency | React Hono Claude CLI |
| caseboard | Multiplayer AI mystery game — tool-use evidence reveal, real-time SSE streaming | React Claude SDK SSE |
| limpet | Run your Mac off an external SSD with automatic local failover and conflict-safe merge-back. Single-file bash, no kext, no daemon | Shell |
| daylog | Mirrors every Claude Code session into Obsidian — daily notes, rollups, 8-axis auto-tagging | Python |
| beacon | Gives a cloud agent safe, durable control of your laptop — MCP + queue | Go |
| myCodeJudge ⭐ 42 | LeetCode-style online judge — multi-language execution with sandboxed server safety | TypeScript Docker |
I also write and maintain agent skills — explanimate (animated React explainers rendered to video), claude-canvas (interactive React Flow diagrams), and cmux (a Ghostty-based terminal built for running AI coding agents).
Frontend
Mobile & Desktop
Backend & Data
AI
Infra & Tooling
- How We Built a No-Code Landing Page Editor That Ships Static Pages in Minutes — we automated ourselves out of changing hex codes for a living
- Award Winning Marquee Animation with Framer Motion — building a smooth, performant marquee
More at notpritam.in.
I ship from two GitHub accounts. Both are me:
| Account | Used for | What lives there |
|---|---|---|
| @notpritam | personal | side projects, agent skills, open source — you're on it |
| @notpritamm | day job | Emergent production work |
GitHub won't merge contribution graphs across accounts, so I merge them myself — this one is generated daily from both calendars, summed day by day:
Most of it is private — Emergent's product surfaces don't show up as green squares with repo names attached, but they're the bulk of the work.