Nishant Arora — Software & other things

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Work experience

Stripe
Software Engineer
Mar 2026 – Present
I was a user of Stripe at Olvy, and loved the product so much I decided to join and learn how the company operates.
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Rippling
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2025 – Feb 2026
Having worked only at startups before, I wanted to explore how large companies actually worked. Rippling was a great intro to operating at scale.
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Olvy
Co-Founder & CTO
Sep 2021 – Jan 2025
Co-founded the company, raised capital, built a team, built a product, got customers, did customer support, research, sales, product, and everything else. Didn't get to PMF, decided to sell
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Atlan
Founding Engineer → Principal Engineer
Apr 2018 – Jun 2021
Started as the first engineering hire on an internal project, saw that project get to series-A, got a front row seat to the whole journey. This was the most fun I've had at work
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Projects

Matterwiki
Team knowledge
A home for what your team knows.
A simple wiki for teams to collect documentation and share knowledge. Built around making information easy to write, organize, and find, so it doesn’t get lost in chat threads or scattered documents.
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GuidedReview.dev
Developer tools
Make sense of AI-generated code.
A CLI and Chrome extension that organize code changes into a guided walkthrough. Follow related changes across files, inspect the real diff, and leave feedback before shipping, whether you’re working locally or reviewing a GitHub pull request.
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OrbitGraphQL
API infrastructure
A cache that understands GraphQL.
A caching proxy written in Go that sits in front of your GraphQL API. It serves cached queries and automatically invalidates the cache when mutations change the underlying data, with support for in-memory and Redis storage.
GitHub
DipperPDF
Native macOS app
Everyday PDF tools. Everything stays on your Mac.
A native Mac app for merging, compressing, splitting, and editing PDFs. All document processing happens offline, with no uploads or accounts. Built with Swift and SwiftUI, it saves results as separate files to preserve your originals.
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Nishant Arora.

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Frameworks Should Be In Code, Not Config

Most Things Are Simple

Best Practices for Running an AI app in Production

Safety by Discipline and Safety by API Design

On Software Rewrites

How I Learned To Code

Every Company Needs a Knowledge Manager

The Joy Of Shipping Software

Overwhelming Codebases

Education Doesn't Need A Revolution

Stripe

Rippling

Olvy

Atlan

Matterwiki

GuidedReview.dev

OrbitGraphQL

DipperPDF

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Frameworks Should Be In Code, Not Config↗

Most Things Are Simple↗

Best Practices for Running an AI app in Production↗

Safety by Discipline and Safety by API Design↗

On Software Rewrites↗

How I Learned To Code↗

Every Company Needs a Knowledge Manager↗

The Joy Of Shipping Software↗

Overwhelming Codebases↗

Education Doesn't Need A Revolution↗

Posts

Frameworks Should Be In Code, Not Config

Most Things Are Simple

Best Practices for Running an AI app in Production

Safety by Discipline and Safety by API Design

On Software Rewrites

How I Learned To Code

Every Company Needs a Knowledge Manager

The Joy Of Shipping Software

Overwhelming Codebases

Education Doesn't Need A Revolution