About

Hey, I’m Lakhan Samani from India 🇮🇳.

I’ve been building software since 2013 — starting as a freelancer during my college years, and moving into full-time roles in 2016. I enjoy building practical solutions and contributing to open source.I tend to keep things simple — both in code and in life — and follow a minimalist approach.

What I’m Doing now

• Working as remote senior software engineer for Qdrant
• Provide software consultancy and development services
• I’m the creator and maintainer of authorizer.dev, a database independent open-source authentication and authorization solution.

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

• Senior Software Engineer Qdrant Currently
• Software Engineer Deepup.ai
• Lead Software Engineer for The Contentment Foundation
• TTPro (https://ttpro.in)
• Cloud Software Engineer ArangoDB
• 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
• RAG
• AI Agents
• MCP Servers
• 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