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buildthingsuseful/README.md

Hi, I'm Raghav πŸ‘‹

πŸ“ Bay Area | πŸ—οΈ Builder | 🧠 AI + Infrastructure

TypeScript Next.js React Node.js Java Python Supabase Tailwind

Engineering leader by day, builder by night. I like solving real problems with code β€” from AI-powered dev tools to distributed systems.

Current Projects

  • 🧠 PRBrain – AI-powered PR analysis for GitHub. Detects intent, flags duplicates, scores quality.

Open Source

  • 🧠 PRBrain – Free GitHub Action that analyzes every PR with AI. Intent extraction, duplicate detection, quality scoring.
  • πŸ”₯ Kiln – Build, evaluate, and optimize AI systems. Evals, RAG, agents, fine-tuning, and more. (contributor)
  • β˜• Build Your Own Kafka – Learn Kafka internals by building it from scratch in Java.

Past Work & Interests

  • ☸️ Kubernetes, distributed systems, event-driven architecture
  • πŸ“¨ Apache Kafka – built IMS modules, monitoring tools, and deep-dived internals
  • πŸ› οΈ Full-stack apps with Next.js, Supabase, Clerk, shadcn, Tailwind

Tech Stack

Frontend:  React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui
Backend:   Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Python
Data:      Supabase (Postgres + pgvector), Kafka, Redis
Infra:     AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions
AI:        OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, LangChain, RAG
Auth:      Clerk, NextAuth

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