Full-Stack Software Engineer
Hi there, I'm Arhun. I work at CGI France, where I take customer-facing products end to end: the interface, the API behind it, the cluster it runs on, and increasingly the AI in the middle.
In practice that's React and React Native at one end, Node, Postgres and Redis in the middle, Kubernetes and Terraform underneath, and LangGraph where it earns its place.
On my own time I build the tools I wish existed, with the delightful interfaces and interactions I'd want to use myself. Take a look at some of them below, and get in touch if you have a question or want to collaborate.
Things I wanted to exist badly enough to keep working on them past the first weekend.
One place for everything you watch, read, play and listen to — films, shows, games and much more. Track your progress, create lists, update your diary and add your own reviews.
View projectA Visual Studio Code extension to practise your typing without leaving the editor. Downloaded and regularly used by more than 20k developers.
Smaller things I've built on my own time, some of them being open-source.
A macOS time tracker that asks what you're working on every few minutes, and quietly counts the time in between.
Triage tracks into playlists from the keyboard: preview, arrow through, hotkey to file it away.
A browser extension for moving text between apps without dragging its styling along: plain, clean HTML or Markdown.
Not whether it will rain, but whether your ride is worth it: both legs, your route, your kit, your tolerance for suffering.
Write a note, get a link. The whole note lives inside the link itself. Rich text, optional password protection.
Vim-style terminal editor with collaborative editing features over SSH and the web.
Two-way sync with one calendar per Todoist project, because the official integration flattens them all into one.
Eight readings of the same backlog. Each view answers one question, and every number can say where it came from.
A higher-or-lower game on French open data. Four registers, 3,397 entries, not one of them invented.
Strasbourg's tram and bus network in real time: next departures, disruptions and routing, with no backend at all.
A Pomodoro countdown and a todo list in one app, on the web and on Android.
A minimal URL shortener and API that keeps count of the visits. There's a CLI for it too.
A cross-platform Hacker News reader with nothing extra in it.
A Chrome extension that watches your Twitch streamers and says the moment one goes live.
Average sentiment on any subject, run through an NLP library. Retired when the API went to $100 a month.
Write plugins for the Pop!_OS launcher in TypeScript instead of wrestling its raw protocol.
The places I've worked and studied at.
The things I build with, roughly in order of how often I reach for them.
Got a question, an idea, or an opportunity? I'd like to hear about it. You can also email me at arhunsad@gmail.com.
