©2026
SoftwareEngineer
Self-hostedSystems
Based inThrissur, IN

Yawar

I build private software that runs on hardware you control — no third-party analytics, no external AI, no data leaving the box.

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About

I design and build full-stack systems end to end — schema, server, interface, and the operational work that keeps them alive: migrations, encrypted backups, restore rehearsals, cutover and rollback.

Most of what I build is deliberately private. It runs on a single server, stores its own data, and answers only to the person it belongs to.

Stack
TypeScript · Next.js · PostgreSQL
Focus
Private, self-hosted systems
Ops
Encrypted backups · verified restores

Selected Work

One system, built properly, in the open with myself as the only user — and held to production standards throughout.

Private Life OS · 2026

ROACH

Live

A single-user life system covering planning, prayer, training, nutrition, finance and review. Everything is computed locally: prayer times from solar geometry, muscle recovery from logged sets, exercise identification from photographs, expenses from pasted payment messages. No external service sees any of it.

  • 34tables
  • 93tests
  • 0external AI calls
  • 1server

Local models, no black boxes

Exercise identification uses character-trigram similarity that learns from corrections. Machines are recognised by a 64-bit perceptual fingerprint computed in the browser — the photograph never leaves the phone. Muscle recovery is an exponential-decay model calibrated against the owner's own hardest session, so every number traces back to a set they logged.

Refusing to guess

Ambiguous input is never assumed. A bare "press" returns five candidates and asks; an unconfirmed machine code resolves to nothing; a payment message it cannot read goes to an inbox to be reworded. A wrong entry is worse than no entry.

Operations as a feature

Nightly encrypted PostgreSQL backups, checksum verification, and full restore rehearsals into a throwaway cluster. Cutover and rollback are one command each, both rehearsed before they were needed.

Built for one person

Session auth with scrypt and signed cookies, an offline write queue for logging without signal, and a single input bar that parses a whole day of plain sentences — showing what it understood before writing anything.

Next.js 16React 19TypeScript PostgreSQL 18DrizzleZodVitestCaddy

What I Do

Three kinds of work, all of them end to end.

  1. 01

    Full-stack product

    From an empty schema to a running service: data model, server, interface, tests, and the deployment that carries it.

  2. 02

    Self-hosting & migration

    Moving a system off someone else's platform and onto hardware you own, with the backups and rollback path proven before the switch.

  3. 03

    Local intelligence

    Models that run on your own machine and explain themselves — pattern matching, ranking and recognition, without shipping your data to an API.

Let's talk

If you are building something that should stay yours, I would like to hear about it.

yawarzakir@gmail.com