Engineering.
Code other people have to maintain — without filing a complaint. React frontends. Python ETL pipelines. REST APIs that don't lie to your accountant. Production for eight years and still shipping.
available · 1 slot · q3 2026
Not your average full-stack developer.
You're shopping a developer. You found one who also writes the brand voice, ships the build, designs the deck, and runs your email automation — while everyone else on your shortlist is still scoping.Sorry about your shortlist.
8+years shipping
40+production projects
4disciplines · one keyboard
1guy · zero subcontractors
01 · stack
Built with real tools. Not a wishlist.
Every line below — I've shipped production code with it. Click a tab. See when I last used it. "Familiar with" is for resumes; this is the real history.
→niraj --stack frontend
reactexpertlast: 2 days ago
next.js (app router)expertlast: 2 days ago
typescriptexpertlast: 2 days ago
three.js · r3fproficientlast: 6 months ago
d3.jsexpertlast: 1 week ago
gsap · lenisproficientlast: 3 months ago
tailwind · vanilla cssexpertlast: today
02 · capabilities
One person. Four jobs.
Most full-stack devs hand off to a designer. Most designers hand off to a developer. I do both. And the brand work. And the user research. Without four invoices and three Slack channels.
UI design.
Figma files that don't make your dev cry. Tokens that survive the handoff. Components named like a human named them. Font links included. Spacing that adds up.
UX strategy.
"UX specialist" usually means somebody made a mood board. I run actual user interviews. Build the flow. Watch real people fumble the prototype. Then we fix what's actually broken — not what feels broken.
Brand & graphic.
Logos. Wordmarks. Packaging. Email templates. Pitch decks. The thing your wife actually likes — and the print quote that doesn't bounce because the bleed is wrong.
★ the lab
Built with variable type. Stress-test it.
One typeface. Five axes. Drag the sliders — watch Fraunces become a hundred different typefaces. The rest of this site is built with these same controls.
Aa
opsz · optical size144
wght · weight400
SOFT · roundness50
WONK · weirdness1.00
presets:
font-family: 'Fraunces', serif;
font-style: normal;
font-variation-settings:
'opsz' 144,
'wght' 400,
'SOFT' 50,
'WONK' 1.00;
03 · selected work
Six projects. Six different jobs.
Each one shipped end-to-end. Each one solved a specific problem. None of them were templates. Click any one for the receipts.
/ 01 — 2024 → present
Skinociti.
First American brand to put 3D texture you can actually feel on glass and aluminum slabs.
read case study →noir
amber
vinyl
cream
stone
earth
/ 02 — 2024
Wrapmandu.
Premium 3M vinyl skins, precision-cut to 0.1mm. Built for Kathmandu's payment rails.
read case study →1// Khalti v2 payment verification
2const verifyPayment = async (req, res) => {
3 const { pidx } = req.body;
4 try {
5 const { data } = await axios.post(
6 'https://khalti.com/api/v2/...',
7 { pidx },
8 { headers: { Authorization: key } }
9 );
10 if (data.status === 'Completed') {
11 await Order.findByIdAndUpdate(...);
12 return res.json({ ok: true });
13 }
14 } catch (err) { /* logged */ }
15};
/ 03 — 2023 → present
Transparent Utah.
Public-finance platform that survives both auditors and journalists. Used by every Utah school district.
read case study →unrestricted cash · q1–q24$12.4M
revenue+12%
days cash247
vendors3.4k
queries1.2M
/ 04 — 2025
Vitalea Spa.
A site that breathes a little slower than the rest of the internet.
read case study →vitalea
spa · slc
book a session →
/ 05 — 2026
Urban Spice.
An elegant, stylish, classy, sassy woman in black — translated into a brand.
read case study →obsidian
oxblood
tequila
bone
brick
US
/ 06 — 2025
Jeon Films.
Cinematographer's portfolio that earns its film grain honestly.
read case study →JEON
FILMS
REEL · 2025 · 02:47
04 · process
How working with me actually goes.
/ 01
I read your brief. Twice. Then I tell you what's wrong with it.
Most briefs are wrong about something — usually the audience, sometimes the goal, occasionally the budget. I'd rather have that conversation in week one than week six, after you've spent a third of the runway on a hero animation no customer asked for.
/ 02
I build the brand before I build the site.
Skip this step and you've paid for a website that doesn't know what it's selling. Voice, palette, type, mark, tone — locked first. The build inherits from the brand. The other order doesn't work, no matter how much your dev tries.
/ 03
Design in browser. Not 47 rounds of Figma.
Real materials, real motion, real type, real responsive — in front of you on a real device, not in a static PDF that lies about how things will feel. Figma is a sketchpad, not a delivery format. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never shipped a site.
/ 04
Ship in weeks. Not quarters.
The longer it takes, the more boring it gets. Boredom kills more projects than budgets do. Tight scope, hard deadlines, weekly drops you can actually look at. If we're 8 weeks in and you've never seen a working build, fire me.
/ 05
If you don't like it, tell me why.
I take feedback. I don't take it personally. "Make it pop" is not feedback. "The hierarchy is wrong because the eye lands on X before Y" is feedback. Specific is the only kind that helps. We're partners, not adversaries.
05 · about
Some context.
niraj · saratoga springs · ut
Niraj Tiwari
designer · developer · brand engineer
Days I work at the Utah State Auditor's Office, where I build Transparent Utah — a public-finance platform that lets every Utahn see where their tax money goes without learning SQL. Used by all 41 school districts. Audited every quarter. Built to last.
Nights and weekends I run Skinociti — first American brand to put 3D texture you can actually feel on glass and aluminum slabs. Brand, build, copy, photography, email flows. The whole thing. By myself.
In between, I take a small number of selected client projects. Brands with something real to say. Founders who don't need three rounds of stakeholder review to approve a hex code. The list is shorter than you'd expect — and it stays that way on purpose.
Nepali-American. Caldwell University. I work with people I like. If you want a quote and a Slack channel and an SLA, hire an agency. If you want one person who'll ship the thing while the agency is still in discovery — keep scrolling.
06 · still here?