Hey, I'm Sanjay, a software engineer working on backend systems, native apps and developer tools. Most of what I build is local-first: durable Python workflows on SQLite, a Rust PDF studio, macOS utilities in Swift, and a long tail of browser tools. I also spend a lot of time sending fixes upstream to language tooling, developer infrastructure and AI agent projects.
The quickest way to reach me is LinkedIn.
Slab is an offline PDF studio for macOS, Windows and Linux. It merges, splits, signs, redacts, OCRs and compares PDFs, with watched-folder automation and on-device AI for search, summaries and chat with citations. Everything runs locally.
GitSight: Git history inside VS Code. Commit graph, blame heatmap, interactive rebase, worktrees and PRs.TypeScript · VS Code
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Tilt: turns MacBook lid movement into live perspective, blur and dimming effects, rendered on the GPU.Swift · Metal · ScreenCaptureKit
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Context Clipboard: a clipboard that remembers where you copied from: source URL, page title and surrounding paragraph.TypeScript · Browser extension · Explore →
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retrace: crash-resumable Python workflows. Durable SQLite checkpoints, retries and a live inspector.Python · asyncio · Playground →
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Swift 6 · SwiftUI · HID++ · Homebrew tap →
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city-friction-map: a community map of everyday city obstacles. Report, verify and share heads-ups, with GeoJSON export.JavaScript · Express · SQLite · Leaflet
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Also: ferry (task queue with crash recovery) · tsk (Markdown-backed terminal todos in Go) · Snip (link analytics API) · copilot-usage-tracker (Copilot spend and attribution) · raft (Raft consensus core in pure Python)
I've had more than 410 pull requests merged across 280+ open-source repositories, mostly Python tooling, developer infrastructure and AI agent frameworks. These are the projects I work in the most:
I've also had PRs merged in OpenHands, uv, Ruff, OpenBB, Helix, LightRAG, DeepTutor, 1Panel, CyberChef, Glances, Mantine, openai-python, tqdm, Dash, Tornado, Apprise, ranger, GoReleaser, beets and Prowler.
The full list, the counting method and maintainer acknowledgments for incorporated work are in the contribution audit.
- Slab's PDF tools: see what the desktop app does before downloading it
- Retrace recovery playground: kill a workflow mid-run and watch it resume
- System Design Academy: 60 production architecture deep dives, each defended through the follow-up questions
- Flight Tracker: live aircraft positions from the OpenSky Network on a world map
- Data Forge: drop in a CSV, TSV or JSON file to filter, chart and export it, all client-side









