Nitin Bhardwaj
01Independent · Bengaluru, India

Full-stack developer & Tech consultant crafting calm software for founders.

I'm Nitin — I help early-stage teams ship SaaS products, web apps and websites that feel considered. Six years across the stack, four of them on my own.

Years
06+
Shipped
40+
Clients
22

Open for new work

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02About
Currently
Full-time at an FMCG Logistics-as-a-Service startup — also taking on 1–2 long engagements a year, plus a handful of short consulting sprints.
Previously
Founding engineer at two YC-backed startups; senior eng at a Series-B fintech.
Speaking
Next.js Conf · Render ATL · India FOSS · React India.

I work like a small studio — strategy, design and engineering under one roof, with the cadence and intimacy of a single person.

I help founders and product teams turn messy problems into calm, high-conviction products — the kind users trust on day one and keep coming back to.

I start by listening: to customer calls and support threads, to your roadmap, and to what your code is quietly telling you. Then we choose the smallest set of changes that makes the biggest difference — faster flows, clearer screens, fewer sharp edges.

Expect practical decisions, sharp copy, and a bias for shipping. We’ll fix the things that bleed time (confusing onboarding, brittle systems, slow releases), tighten the seams between marketing and product, and leave you with work that’s easy to maintain — not a “big rewrite” you’ll regret later.

Stack of choice
  • Next.js
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Express
  • Postgres
  • React
  • React Native
  • Flutter
  • RxJS
  • NgRx
  • Turborepo
  • Webpack
  • ESLint
03What I build

Four shapes of work,
one quiet bar.

  • 01

    SaaS products

    Zero-to-one and one-to-ten work — from product strategy through to a production app you can defend in a board meeting.

  • 02

    Web apps

    Internal tools, dashboards and customer portals that respect both the user and the engineers who'll inherit them.

  • 03

    Marketing sites

    Editorial, fast, content-managed sites for founders and studios who want their website to be the strongest part of their pitch.

  • 04

    Tech consulting

    Architecture reviews, technical due diligence and fractional engineering leadership for early-stage teams.

05Testimonials

What founders
actually said.

Lightly edited for length. Names withheld where the work is still under the hood.

We hired Nitin for one sprint and ended up keeping him on as our founding engineer. Half the product decisions in Leera today are things he pushed back on and was right about.
Co-founder·Leera AI
Took us from a stapled-forms-and-shoeboxes operation to a proper UIDAI-compliant check-in flow in time for our pilot. Did not blink at the compliance scope.
Founder·Bunks
Figma file to a funded MVP. Realtime chat, two-sided marketplace, the lot — all of it working when investors opened the demo on their own phones.
Founder·Yelle
Campaigns that used to take half a day now take maybe 20–30 minutes, including approvals. Quietly one of the better tools we run.
Co-founder·MyGate
We needed Arabic-first, not Arabic-bolted-on. He understood that on day one. The bidding engine has held up through every public auction we've thrown at it.
Director·Mzadat
Our site is now the first thing buyers in Dubai and Singapore see before they pick up a call. Done in four weeks, no fuss.
Founder·GreenCrest Global Trade Network
Case managers stopped chasing leads for half-finished forms. The eligibility calculator alone paid for the project inside a month.
Engineering Lead·iGuru Immigration