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K I R A N

AI-First Fullstack developer

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Overview

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About

  • Full-stack developer focused on building scalable, maintainable web applications.
  • Skilled in Next.js, React, and TypeScript, with experience building high-quality, user-centric web applications using modern front-end tools.
  • AI-assisted workflows to speed up development, improve code quality, and optimize technical decisions.
  • Prioritize maintainable codebases, solid architecture, and real-world performance stability.
  • Collaborated with Clerk and Sentry growth teams on an OSS Next.js starter template.
  • Maintaining an Next.js starter template used by many developers, with
    6,000stars
    .

Setup

  1. Cursor

    Where it started

  2. Warp

    Agentic terminal

  3. Zed

    Focus on the code

  4. T3 Code + Zed now

    Parallel agents, clean diffs

GitHub

GitHub

Kiranism

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@thedvlpr

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

kiranism

Experience

Hutfin· Remote · United States

Current Employer
  • Nextjs
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • Aws

Upwork / Freelancer· Remote · Switzerland, United States, Belgium

Current Employer
  • Nextjs
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS
  • Shadcn
  • Supabase
  • Clerk
  • Frontegg
  • Tanstack query
  • Tanstack tables

ROQ.tech· Remote · Germany

  • Nextjs
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Prisma
  • Postgres
  • Zod
  • TailwindCSS
  • Shadcn

Avaibe· United Arab Emirates

  • Nextjs
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS
  • Payload CMS
  • AWS

Stackroots· Hybrid · India

  • Nextjs
  • React
  • Material UI
  • Nodejs
  • MongoDB
  • Express

Projects

Open source admin dashboard starter built with Next.js, shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS, and TypeScript.

Sponsorships:

  • Collaborated on Sentry and Clerk integration support for this dashboard starter.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • shadcn/ui
  • TanStack Table
  • Clerk
  • Sentry
  • Zod
  • Nuqs
  • Husky
  • Eslint
All Projects

Expertise

  • Full-Stack Architecture

    Node.jsHonoStripeTypeScriptNext.jsReactTanStack StartTurborepoPrisma
    • Owns features end to end for founders and CTOs, from requirements to UI and deployment.
    • Ships auth and RBAC, multi-tenancy, passkeys, Stripe payments and background jobs.
    • Implements type-safe architectures across multiple Next.js and TanStack Start projects
    Kiranism/next-shadcn-dashboard-starterKiranism/tanstack-start-dashboardKiranism/next-resume-aiKiranism/turbo-ecom

  • UI & Design Systems

    Tailwind CSS v4TanStack Tableshadcn/uiTailwind CSSReactComponent LibrariesTypeScript
    • Creator and sole maintainer of a Next.js dashboard starter with 7,000+ GitHub stars and 1,400+ forks.
    • Implements shadcn/ui component library across multiple production projects
    • Creates reusable, accessible component architectures with Tailwind CSS utility patterns
    Kiranism/next-shadcn-dashboard-starterKiranism/tanstack-start-dashboard

  • Backend & Data

    PostgreSQLPrismaSupabaseAWS LambdaS3CloudFrontDrizzle ORMNeonDBAuthenticationBackend APIsTurborepoNext.js
    • Offloads heavy work like PDF extraction to AWS Lambda and caches results to cut response time.
    • Hardens production apps with a WAF, rate limiting and consistent auth middleware.
    • Implements type-safe ORM patterns with Drizzle for database operations
    Kiranism/ThalaforareasonKiranism/Next-auth-custom-backendKiranism/turbo-ecom

  • AI & LLM Integration

    AWS BedrockOpenRouterAnthropicGeminiRAGEmbeddingsOpenAI APILLM IntegrationAI FeaturesOpenAINext.jsPDF rendering
    • Builds production LLM workflows that turn PDFs into structured drafts, with Zod-validated output, retries, fallbacks and human review for low-confidence results.
    • Gates every prompt or model change on an eval set, benchmarking models on accuracy and cost.
    • Integrates OpenAI APIs for intelligent application features
    Kiranism/cvtailorKiranism/what-the-linkKiranism/ThalaforareasonKiranism/next-resume-aiKiranism/codeFlow

  • Performance, SEO & AEO

    Server renderingLighthouseSitemapsStructured data
    • Lifted a production site's Lighthouse SEO score from the 50s to 99 by moving client-rendered pages to server rendering.
    • Built auto-generated sitemaps that scale past 10K pages and made content readable for AI search.

  • Agentic Coding

    Claude CodeCodexAgent skillsPlaywright
    • Ships daily with Claude Code and Codex, verifying every change with Playwright and build checks.
    • Writes Claude Code skills and project instructions so AI agents can safely contribute to a codebase.
    • Selected for Anthropic's Claude for Open Source and OpenAI's Codex for Open Source programs.
    Kiranism/next-shadcn-dashboard-starterKiranism/what-the-link

Blog

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Next.js Shadcn Dashboard Starter

Why I built one of the most popular free Next.js admin starter templates. The philosophy, the mistakes I was trying to avoid, and the stack it runs on today.

What The Link: How I AI-fied My WhatsApp

How I built a WhatsApp-powered bookmark manager with semantic search using Baileys, TanStack Start, Hono, Drizzle, SQLite, and Gemini embeddings.

Best React Admin Frameworks in 2026 (and Why Starter Kits Win With AI)

Compare react-admin, Refine, Ant Design Pro, Payload and AdminJS with Shadcn Dashboard by Kiranism, and see why owning your admin code works better with AI coding agents.

GitHub Contributions

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K I R A N
@thedvlpr·Sep 14

What started as a simple Next.js + shadcn dashboard starter grew to 2,000+ stars and 450+ forks. Grateful for the support and contributions.

K I R A N
K I R A N
@thedvlpr·Oct 2

Built reusable shadcn tables with TanStack Table and nuqs for type-safe server-side pagination, search, and filtering.