Neeyat Lotlikar
Exploring software from the ground up
Portfolio • v1

I like making computers do sensible things

I don’t treat coding as just a job — it’s something I naturally gravitate toward. This site showcases projects I’ve built in my free time, driven by curiosity rather than titles. I work best when I can slow down, understand the problem fully, and build clean solutions. Expect experiments, utilities, and things I found worth building.

Quietly obsessed with how things work Building small tools in Python and experimenting with C

About me

After working professionally as a backend developer, I explored AI during my master’s — and learned that training models isn’t where my interest lies. What stuck was my love for coding itself and understanding systems deeply. I enjoy quiet focus, thoughtful design, and software that earns its complexity.

Current focus:
  • Exploring systems programming concepts and working closer to the OS
  • Re-centering my work around fundamentals, not frameworks
Strengths:
  • Comfortable working independently and exploring unfamiliar territory
  • Writing clean, readable code with long-term maintainability in mind
Outside of work:
  • Learning Japanese through music, lyrics, and language tools
  • Cooking international dishes and experimenting in the kitchen
  • Building side projects purely for fun

Selected projects

Projects I built to explore, learn, and apply real-world software engineering.


RapidPyFetch

Completed

A lightweight Python download manager that integrates with aria2c daemon for reliable, high-performance downloads. Designed for browser extension integration via native messaging.

Tech: Python, HTML, JavaScript, Shell

Minimal C HTTP Server in a Podman Container

Completed

This project is a from-scratch HTTP server written in C that serves static files using non-blocking I/O, packaged into a rootless Podman container.

Tech: C, Linux, Make, Podman

Contact & links

You can contact me through the platforms below or email me directly.