Naman Barkiya

Applied AI Engineer

Software engineer working at the intersection of AI, data, and scalable software systems.

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Projects

Showcasing impactful projects and technical achievements.

Portfolio Website (130+ GitHub stars)

Open-source Next.js portfolio template recognized and forked by developers worldwide, optimized for SEO/AEO and performance.

Web Dev

Frontend

UI/UX

Convot

Production-ready AI chatbot platform that crawls, indexes, and embeds knowledge from PDFs/URLs/text to deliver source-grounded answers via a one-line widget.

Full Stack

Backend

Web Dev

Niya SaaS Template (30+ GitHub stars)

Production-ready Next.js 15 template for developers and AI startups. Includes authentication, state management, beautiful UI components, and everything needed to build scalable SaaS applications.

Full Stack

Web Dev

UI/UX

Experience

Professional journey and career timeline.

Software Development Engineer

UBS•Mumbai, India

2024 - Present

Shipped production features within the first month for a trader-facing P&L dashboard used by global stakeholders.

TypescriptReact+3 more

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Founding Engineer

Muze AI•Bengaluru, India

2023 - 2024

Improved LLM function-calling accuracy through structured prompt design and response validation.

FastAPIPython+4 more

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Web Developer Intern

Builtdesign•Nagpur, India

2021 - 2022

Developed websites using React, Angular, and GraphQL.

ReactAngular+5 more

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Contributions

Open-source contributions and community involvement.

minimal-next-portfolio

Open-source Next.js portfolio template. Trusted and forked by developers worldwide (130+ GitHub stars).

namanbarkiya

niya-saas-template

Modern Next.js SaaS template. Production-ready starter for devs and AI startups (30+ GitHub stars).

namanbarkiya

autogen

Improved the gallery component to showcase the community work.

Microsoft

Blogs

Thoughts on AI, software engineering, and building in public.

Next.jsOpen SourceGitHub+2

How I Got 150+ Stars on GitHub for a Next.js Portfolio Template

The story behind minimal-next-portfolio — an open-source Next.js 16 portfolio template that grew from a personal project to 148 stars, 41 forks, and developers worldwide using it to showcase their work.

February 1, 20266 min read

FastAPIPythonSupabase+2

Ship Your Backend in 10 Minutes: The Niya FastAPI Template

A production-ready FastAPI template with Supabase auth, rate limiting, connection pooling, and clean architecture — built so you never waste another week on backend boilerplate.

March 1, 20256 min read

Next.jsSaaSSupabase+2

I Built a Free SaaS Starter Template — Here's Everything Inside

Niya SaaS Template is a production-ready, open-source Next.js 15 starter kit with Supabase auth, Zustand, React Query, Magic UI animations, and clean architecture. Built for developers and AI startups who want to ship fast.

February 20, 20258 min read

Skills

Key skills that define my professional identity.

Next.js

Effortlessly build dynamic apps with routing, layouts, loading UI, and API routes.

React

Craft interactive user interfaces using components, state, props, and virtual DOM.

express.js

Build web applications and APIs quickly using a fast, unopinionated Node.js framework.

Node.js

Run JavaScript on the server side, enabling dynamic and responsive applications.

MongoDB

Store and retrieve data seamlessly with a flexible and scalable NoSQL database.

Typescript

Enhance JavaScript with static types, making code more understandable and reliable.