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aroon

Software Developer, mostly building things for the web.

I design and build websites, apps, and software — for clients, and for products of my own.

I currently work as a freelance software engineer, taking on client projects while building and maintaining my own SaaS products.

A stand-in, for now

Image credit: Koboyo

I do this because I genuinely enjoy it — not because it pays the bills. Freelancing and building my own products both let me stay close to that curiosity: new frameworks, new ways of solving the same old problems, new tools worth learning just to see how they think. It would be easier to pick one stack and get comfortable, or keep chasing whatever's new and see what sticks. I'm still figuring out where that balance actually sits.

Projects

Parkoto

Helping parking lot operators manage spaces, bookings, and availability without spreadsheets.

parkoto.studio

O'Kello

A simpler way to track time and stay on top of how your day actually gets spent.

okello.dev

Kiiru

My personal blog — a space for writing things down as I figure them out.

kiiru.io

Dhago

A platform for communities to organize, connect, and actually stay in touch.

dhago.xyz

Lights Travel

Built for a client in the travel space — helping travelers plan and book trips.

lightstravel.com

Books I recommend

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Changed how I think about the tradeoffs behind every 'just use a database' decision.

Martin Kleppmann

The Pragmatic Programmer

Less about syntax, more about habits — still catch myself applying advice from this years later.

Hunt & Thomas

Clean Code

Shaped how I think about naming and structure, even where I've since disagreed with parts of it.

Robert C. Martin

Talks that inspire me

Rich Hickey

Simple Made Easy

Grace Hopper

Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People

Linus Torvalds

The Mind Behind Linux (TED interview)

Bret Victor

Inventing on Principle

Andrej Karpathy

Intro to Large Language Models

Andrej Karpathy

State of GPT

Simon Willison

Making Large Language Models Work For You

Jeremy Howard

A Hackers' Guide to Language Models

Things I'm learning