~/jay-popat
Full Stack Engineer
Building with TypeScript, Rust, AI and decentralized technologies.
Overview
I'm a full-stack engineer based in Ireland, recently graduated from the University of Galway with a First Class Honours BSc in Computer Science. I build end-to-end across TypeScript, Rust and Go, and I'm currently exploring agents and the agentic way of development.
What I work on
- Product engineering — Shipping end-to-end features across backend services and frontends — Java and Spring, TypeScript and Next.js, Angular — on customer-facing platforms in Agile teams.
- Systems and blockchain — Rust in production: Substrate and FRAME pallet development, benchmarking, and post-quantum runtime migration work on Polkadot-SDK chains.
- AI and agents — Local-first MCP servers, hybrid retrieval over SQLite FTS5, and building tools that make an agentic workflow practical day to day.
Selected work
- Duet — A ssh tui for room based collaborative sessions, with llm and sandboxing capabilities.
- rewindos — Local-first Rust MCP server with hybrid RAG (Ollama embeddings + Reciprocal Rank Fusion) over SQLite FTS5.
- Eduverse — An educational metaverse catering to a better and more interactive learning experience.
- Brainbox — An Obsidian clone for efficient note-taking and knowledge management.