My name is Kush Daga, also known as dev_kid.

• 🔭 I’m currently working as ... Founding Engineer at Segwise (3 years)
• 🚧 I'm currently building ... a small suite of iOS apps with friends: Stepgate (live on the App Store!)
• 🌱 I’m currently learning ... how to make apps make money :)
• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on ... Anything, Im very cheerful :)
• 💬 Ask me about ... React is my forte, but ask me about anything, if I dont know, Ill search for it with you!
• 📫 How to reach me: ... kushdaga1494@gmail.com
• 😄 Pronouns: ... He/Him

I started out as a frontend engineer (React, NextJS, TypeScript), but over the last few years I've ended up building across the whole stack: pipelines, agents, internal tools, and iOS apps on the side

Founding team member at Segwise, an AI creative analytics startup for mobile marketing teams. Things I've built here:

• Creative Generation Agents - AI agents that read a customer's ad performance data, figure out what's working, and generate new ad creatives.
• Chat - Our most used feature, helped build it end to end from agent loops, to tools, to frontend.
• Playable tagging agent - an agent that plays through customers' playable ads and figures out what works in them. v1 was my own computer-use loop (screenshot, LLM, next action, repeat) before it became famous.
• Creative processing pipeline - pulls ads from ad networks, tags them with AI, stores metrics in ClickHouse and Postgres.
• Customer success tool - internal dashboard so our CS team can debug runs and replay sessions without waiting on engineers.
• Plus the company website, analytics dashboards, and our Slack alerts service, through two pivots.

Fampay (Full-Time Frontend Engineer) - Worked on India's largest payments app for teenagers. Launched DigiGold, live to 2M+ users. Built and maintained an internal server-driven UI tool to ship new mobile screens and components to the live app without an app release, with maker-checker approvals. Managed one engineer. Working with React, React-Query, Styled Components inside native webviews.

HTML Share Tool - A place for agents to host HTML files: share with your team, let others comment on them, and edit with an AI-native HTML editor instead of markdown. Think Claude artifacts, but shareable and collaborative, across any model / tool.

Reminders++ - A reminder app with much smarter trigger cues: location-based, CarPlay-based, people-based. "Remind me when I go home next to keep my shoes." "Remind me in my next meet with ABC to say XYZ." "Remind me when I exit my car to take the water bottle."

• NextJs, Prisma, GiraphQL, Apollo, GrpahQL Helix - Full Stack template to get started with web applications
• React, Redux, StyledComponents based Frontend setup with custom theming setup

• UrbanTV - UrbanTV was the go to solution for live commerce in India, a platform that enables any creator, housewife, employee, or a brand, to easily start selling thier products to buyers via LiveStreams, with easy solution for buyers to add to cart and buy the product shown.

• Hallparty - Worked with Hallparty as their lead frontend developer for the web and app of their product Hallparty - A social media app for colleges and communities. My work involved dealing with alot of complex architecture in frontend to ensure smooth user experience on the platform. Technologies used in the platform are as follows

  • NextJs and ReactNative: For building the website and the app.
  • WatermelonDB: Async fast storage solution for keeping the chats.
  • XmppJs and Ejabberd: For socket connections and maintaining the chats.
  • Agora and Firebase: For voice rooms and realtime connection with them.
  • Tailwind: For design and css.
  • RxJS: For managing streams and events.
  • Redux Toolkit : The state management library for the project.
  • Custom hooks and Api builder Classes: For managing api calls and other effects in components.

• Frontend Intern at Fampay. Worked on 2 projects that are currently live in the main application, the work involved working on the web view inside the main application, responsible for handling explore section, rewards and games. Worked on Cashback spinner and Savings goal feature for the application.
• Worked on creating the buyer and seller dashboard for Upmesh - A singapore based startup
• Interned with the frontend team of Pepper and helped refactor their website and also helped build the product PepperType handling the complete frontend architecture, till I was working there.
• Helped analyze various Drag and Drop libraries and made a small ETL layer for DataChannel to perform transformations with a very simple drag and drop interface
• A short term lead frontend role for Fansee (built the entire platform from scratch) - A startup aiming to build celebrity experiences to people, with more than 150 celebs signed up (NOTE: The website might be down now)
• A buying selling platform for my college (inspired by OLX) to help ease the process - WIP

Swank - A project for building a small documentation based social media app that motivates users to participate in challenges like 100daysofcode and keep them motivated by rewarding consistency and having a feed to track the progress of themselves and get motivated by progress of others. A solution that involves the Feed structure similar to twitter but in depth knowledge of the post in a format similar to hashnode and incentives similar to snapchat's streaks. Tech used - Nextjs with prisma and GiraphQL

NotsApp - An integration for WhatsApp - Notion, an easy way to add content to your notion page by just sending a WhatsApp message, building using Notion official Api, Node, and NextJs.

Here are a list of some more small projects that I am planning to do for fun and to keep my knowledge up to date (some are done and urls are included in it) - Personal Projects List