· The personal hearth of

Nandeep Mali

Programmer, builder, and curious tinkerer.
Wandering the realms where code, circuits, and imagination meet.

I make sturdy software, explore strange ideas, and help good people bring their projects to life. Pull up a chair — there is always something brewing.

Available for thoughtful collaborations
Pixel-art portrait of Nandeep Mali in his kitchen
Keeper of the craftcode · curiosity · community
SCIENCE FICTION · FANTASY · RPGS · VIDEO GAMES · BOARD GAMES · READING · TOYS · ROAD TRIPS · D&D ·

· The adventurer’s kit

A few of my favourite tools

I

Path of the maker

Programming

JavaScript

Dashboards, web interfaces, and the interactive side of software.

Data & APIs

Pandas, Django, Flask, Redis, PostgreSQL, and useful data flows.

II

Path of the keeper

Infrastructure

Docker

Packaging applications and services so they can travel cleanly.

Kubernetes

Running services across the homelab and production environments.

III

Path of the curious

Craft & curiosity

Big data

Spark, PySpark, and distributed processing for making large datasets useful.

Local AI

Experimenting with self-hosted models using llama.cpp and capable hardware.

Electronics

Hardware, sensors, Arduino, and interactive work at the physical edge.

Teaching

Making programming fundamentals and complex systems easier to approach.

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· A little lore

Years of making things
with good people.

From hardware shops and interactive art to telephony, data platforms, and production infrastructure — I’ve always liked learning how the whole machine works. These days, I’m especially interested in tools that make complex things feel human.

Read my full work history
18+years building
curious projects

· From the journal

Notes from the road

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Welcome to the hearth

A small introduction to this new corner of the internet, and the kinds of things I hope to leave here.

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