Vishal Rana / builder's field notes
Architecture is a promise: the product should still feel effortless when the edge cases arrive.
For more than nine years, I've designed backend platforms, cloud systems, data layers, developer standards, and the teams around them.
Today I'm a Principal Engineer and the founder of Chela—a voice-first external memory system built from a belief that software should remove cognitive work, not create more of it.
Production work, drawn as evidence.
Build notes / selected details
Founder · Product architect · Engineer
A voice-first external memory system that turns ordinary speech into notes, reminders, habits, tasks, and searchable personal context.
The question behind it: what if capturing your life took less effort than forgetting it?
Visit Chela ↗Tech lead · Platform engineering
Scalable backend and frontend systems for UAE property discovery, listings, and management—including a Python image pipeline that made GB-scale 360° property views practical on the web.
Compress enormous immersive imagery without losing the experience that helps people understand a property.
Visit Skyloov ↗Tech lead · Backend & smart contracts
A working NFT marketplace for listing and trading digital assets. I led primarily on the backend and contributed to the smart-contract layer behind marketplace transactions.
Off-chain product behavior and on-chain settlement designed as one coherent marketplace.
Visit Jungle ↗Tech lead · Full-stack platform
A scalable community platform designed around local interaction—bringing people, conversations, and businesses together through a location-aware experience.
Give distributed local communities a digital place that still feels geographically relevant.
Visit Asian Junction ↗Product contributor · Web3
A Web3 product and another chapter in building production systems for decentralized markets.
Original creator · Open-source developer tooling
A CLI that automates assembling release branches from tagged GitHub or GitLab work—ordering and cherry-picking the relevant changes so release PRs are faster and less error-prone.
I built it to remove the repetitive work between tagged changes and a release-ready PR.
Responsibility, compounded over time.
Principal Engineer
Technical Lead
Senior Software Engineer → Tech Lead
Backend Developer
The ideas under continuous construction.
Designing for failure, asynchronous boundaries, idempotency, and the realities that appear after the happy path.
Serverless systems, queues, observability, deployment safety, and infrastructure that earns its complexity.
How unstructured voice becomes useful context, action, recall, and a quieter relationship with information.
Finding leverage in data access, caching, service boundaries, payloads, and the measurements that matter.
Standards, review culture, mentoring, and decision systems that help teams ship without accumulating chaos.
Turning personal friction into software—from first-principles problem framing to a product people can actually use.
Notes from inside the engine room.
Medium / ideas made inspectable
05 / Materials & methods
Also: microservices, REST APIs, system design, scalability, design patterns, CI/CD, Hasura, Moralis, Truffle, Express.js, and the judgment to know when not to use them.