About me

I am Shivam Bhattacharjee. I have been writing code for a better part of a decade, including the early greasy years of inline styles, no build tools and over-engineered projects(which give me PTSD even to this day).

Started working as a freelance web developer right out of college making HTML sites for clients that I could scrounge up. Then came an opportunity to partner up with college mates and an angel investor to start a design studio right out of my hometown, where I self promoted myself to Lead Engineer(there were no other engineers there, but we don't talk about that). Since then it has been a jack-of-all trades journey through murky markups, testy styles to the "promised" land of React components and build systems(praise lord Vite).

The second shift happened around 2021, when we moved to building our own video streaming company, Skara, where I worked till 2025. With more funding and people to work with, I spent more and more time with architecture, server-side code, automation scripts and lots and lots of bug fixes. This also led to mentoring and working alongside newer developers for the first time, which was surprisingly cool and educational. Especially when they ask questions that I don't know, but they don't know that I don't know, so I gotta buy some time to learn it, come back and pretend I knew about it from the start and now we all learned together somehow. That's pretty fresh.

I like many things.

I don't think that what I list here would be an end of it. But for brevity, here goes: I work mostly on building web applications, CLIs and internal tools with Typescript, Express, Node, Bun and React(when I really have to). Go to db is Postgres, Supabase when I am supa-lazy. Docker is always there waiting for its turn on the bench, while AWS and Fly has a permanent retainer on my life savings. I am slowly building expertise in Elixir and it's ecosystem, and I might be falling in love with it.

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Work with me?

I need money. I am serious. Email me at shivam@asyncafterlife.

Respectfully though, I will be rejecting work from invasive tech companies, ad tech, user data harvesting, spyware, malware, spyware as social networks and other dealers of dystopian tech. Sounds wishy-washy, but it is what it is.