I'm a fullstack software engineer who works across AI and distributed systems. These days I build AI products and agents, in public, one small release at a time.
Building now: Quietkey. AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex keep a full transcript of every session on your disk: every command they ran, every file they read. Any API key that passes through ends up in there in plain text, often dozens of times. When I scanned my own Mac I found 236 of them. Most were never pasted by me; the agent read a .env or ran a command and saved what it saw.
Quietkey is a calm, open-source macOS app and CLI that finds those secrets, shows how each one got there, and cleans up the safe parts for you. Nothing leaves your Mac. Coming soon; follow along on X.
Things I care about
- AI agents that do real work, not demos
- Dev tools that stay out of your way
- Local-first software that respects your data
Recent log
2026-11 started Quietkey
2026-04 browser agents: a healthcare extension demo on browser-use
2026-03 benchmarked Unix sockets vs TCP loopback for a CI runner agent
2026-03 Playwright scraper with retries and per-site configs
2026-02 video inpainting with optical flow (Farneback, RAFT) in the browser
2020 a Babel plugin to see how JSX really works (still my most-starred repo. humbling.)
Work with me. I take on a few freelance builds at a time: agent workflows, browser automation, scrapers, internal tools. Message me on X.
Building in public at @pulkitnagpal9. Come say hi.