N/RNitin Ranganath
Product & Systems Engineer

Hi, I'm Nitin. I build production systems for AI products.

Turning model output into reliable interfaces and systems, with a current focus on large-scale media processing pipelines and robust backends, processing hundreds of hours of content daily in production at Tessact.

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(I) — Selected work

Systems I've
shipped.

P / 012026

Pigeon

Multi-tenant notifications platform

A notifications product that gives SaaS apps in-app inboxes and realtime updates out of the box. Teams send events through the backend SDK, drop in the React SDK on the frontend, and skip building the notification plumbing themselves.

  • TypeScript
  • Hono
  • BullMQ
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Drizzle
  • SSE
  • React
  • TSUP
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P / 022025 — 2026

Media Pipeline

Long-form to short-form, automated

A 12-stage media pipeline turns a two-hour podcast into 30 to 40 branded social clips in about an hour, with resumable orchestration, artifact-first stages, and parallel export tuned for production scale.

  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Celery
  • RabbitMQ
  • Remotion
  • AWS Lambda
  • PydanticAI
  • Cloud Run
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P / 032025

Tessact AI

Video intelligence platform

Ask, search, and generate edits across large video libraries. Retrieval finds the right moments, ranking keeps narrative order intact, and model responses resolve into timelines editors can actually use.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • LangGraph
  • Elasticsearch
  • RAG
  • SSE
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
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(II) — Showcase

A visual log
of my work.

Tessact AI · 2024
Content Library
Tessact AI · 2025
Remixes
Tessact AI · 2026
AI Repurpose
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(III) — Projects

Things I built
on the side.

01

Pigeon

Add in-app notifications to your product in minutes, not weeks.

Upcoming
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02

CardCue

Privacy-focused credit card bill tracker + reminder

Closed source
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03

Coolify Deployments

Deploy Coolify applications from right from your IDE

Open source
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04

VSCode Portfolio

Portfolio template used by thousands of developers

Open source
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(IV) — About

Years of writing software, still surprised by it most weeks.

The shorter version: I started on the frontend, picked up systems on the way through, and now spend most of my time on the layers that keep an AI product trustworthy once real traffic shows up.

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(V) — Writing

Notes from
the middle of it.

Latest publish
12 Mar 2026
2 min read

Streaming AI without lying about progress

People can wait longer than you think if the interface stays honest about what is happening.

  • AI
  • UX
  • Streaming
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