Hey I’m Lakhan Samani from India 🇮🇳. I love building solutions and enjoy contributing to open-source. I have been working in industry since 2013, initially learned things and started working as freelancer with my college studies and then started with full time work since 2016. I live life with minimalist approach.
What I’m Doing now
- I’m the creator and maintainer of authorizer.dev, a database independent open-source authentication and authorization solution.
- I also work as Cloud Software Engineer for Arangodb
- Apart from full-time work and authorizer.dev I also work as independent contractor, Technical Writer & Video Creator
Some Popular OSS Projects
- Authorizer: https://github.com/authorizerdev/authorizer
Database independent solution for authentication and authorization with motivation for Your Data Your Control
- React Navigator Status: https://github.com/lakhansamani/react-navigator-status
React hook + component to identify if browser is online or offline. It can listen to network events and change its state automatically.
- React useFilter Hook: https://github.com/promise-learning/useFilter
A hook to filter large amount of data in frontend itself using web workers.
Experiences
- Lead Software Engineer for The Contentment Foundation
- Senior Software Engineer for Appbase.io
- Full-stack Developer at Star of Service
- Software Engineer at Sleeker
- Solution Engineer at Sellnews
- Software Engineer Intern at Searce
- Software Engineer Centric Hub
- Software Engineer at Actonate
Skills
- Golang
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Work: Gcloud | AWS | Azure
- Javascript
- NodeJS
- ReactJS
- React Native
- VueJS
- CSS - (css-in-js | styled components | less | tailwind…)
- GraphQL
- Database - SQL, NoSQL, GraphDBs
- ElasticSearch
- Technical Writing
- Video Creation
- Learning
Education
- Master of Science in Information & Technology from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Technoloby
- Bachelor in Computer Applications from The Maharaja Sayajirao Univeristy
Uses
- Macbook M1 14’ (16 gb ram & 256 gb SSD)
- VSCode for writing code
- iterm2 for terminal
- Chrome for browsing internet
- Notion for taking notes and writing blogs
- OBS for screen recording
- Davinci Resolve for video editing
What I enjoy
- Learning new tools and technologies
- Learning more about finance and wealth creation
- Reading books
- Listening to podcasts
- Doing workout regularly to keep my self fit
- Playing ukulele / tabla