Nauman Tariq · Sydney

What I'm building

I lead engineering teams and build the systems behind software products — from architecture and deployment infrastructure to AI-connected tools and production applications. I still write code and operate what I build.

Head of Engineering at StockLive in Sydney. Twenty years in, mostly on hard B2B problems — Uber Car Share, Ideagen, Fujitsu, Honeywell, West.

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Live

Shipped, running, and used by people who aren't me.

Kuickrlivemcp Publish a page, a doc or a playable game from your terminal or straight from an AI assistant, and it's hosted a second later. kuickr.co InventListlivemcpcollaboration A free home for indie makers to list what they've shipped and be found for it — plus a growing set of free tools for builders. inventlist.com Nodepadlivemcp One box to capture a thought, and a system that files it where it belongs instead of leaving you to sort it out later. nodepad.tools BuiltOnRailslivemcpcollaboration An MCP server that tells your coding agent what a Rails project is actually built on — the stack, the versions, the conventions — so it can work in an unfamiliar codebase instead of guessing at it. builtonrails.com PlatePoselivecollaboration Restaurant food photography generated from a handful of real photos of your own dishes. WiseHerdslive Compliance and herd intelligence for Australian dairy farms. The treatment and movement records a farm is already forced to keep become a one-click audit pack — and, on the way, an honest per-cow P&L. Built at Intellecta. wiseherds.com Conductorlivemcp The control plane for self-hosted Rails — deploys, routing, Postgres, backups and server maintenance across Kamal, Docker or native Puma, on servers you already own. The whole surface is exposed over MCP, so an agent can drive it and pick up where it left off. Early alpha, already running in production. conductor.pavelabs.io Ruby on Rails Linklivecommunityopen source I founded it and I still host it — a Slack community of 23,000+ Rails developers across 42 channels, from beginners and mentors to job postings and OSS. The app behind it is open source and runs on my own infrastructure, deployed through Conductor; a team of admins keeps the place moderated. rubyonrails.link Shorttagslive One dashboard for every side project — signups, revenue and custom metrics from all of them in one place, instead of five browser tabs. shorttags.com

Open source

Five gems and two libraries under MIT, plus one source-available app you can host yourself.

localvaultopen sourcemcp1.12.1 Secrets that stay encrypted on your own machine, with an MCP server so agents can use them without ever seeing them. ~11.6k downloads rails-markupopen sourcemcp1.4.6 Point at something in your own Rails app in the browser, leave a note, and let the coding agent read it and fix it. ~7.4k downloads jazariopen source0.6.0 A procedure you can actually run, instead of a document you hope someone reads. Every run leaves evidence, so "did that finish last night?" becomes a query. ~7.1k downloads inkpenopen source0.9.2 A rich text editor for Rails that doesn't fight you — TipTap and ProseMirror underneath, Stimulus on top. ~2.6k downloads firehose-rbopen source0.2.1 Ruby client for the Firehose API — taps, rules, and streaming that reconnects and picks up where it left off. ~900 downloads permissifyopen sourceruby Activity-based authorization for Ruby. One explicit question, a structured answer, and nothing allowed by omission. github predicateopen sourceruby Business rules defined once and shared by controllers, models, jobs and the front end, instead of copied into all four. github rails-conductorsource availablerails 8 The code behind Conductor. Clone it and run the whole control plane on infrastructure you own — no per-app pricing, no lock-in. Source-available under the Elastic License. github

Tools I built for myself

Command-line things I reach for daily. The binaries are public; the source stays private.

baarilive0.1.0 One view of what you owe a reply to across every repo on your machine, and what you're waiting on others for. Runs entirely locally, and reads your repo's conventions rather than its code — so it behaves the same in Rails, Go, Node or plain docs. Baari is Urdu for turn. brew install nauman/tap/baari Nodepad CLIlive Bind a pad to the directory you're working in, then np where tells you what you were thinking — last thought, open decisions, what's parked — without leaving the shell. brew install nodepad-tools/tap/nodepad Kuickr CLIlive Bind a local folder to a hosted space and push it — attach, status, push — so docs and pages publish the way code deploys. InventList CLIlive Ship from the terminal — products, ships, roadmaps, series and stories, without opening the site. dev-docslive The documentation skeleton I clone into every new project, so the decisions get written down while they're still fresh.

In progress

Real code behind each one, and no audience yet.

calm.pagein progress Somewhere quiet to write and publish. No feed, no metrics shouting at you. calm.page Starrrsin progress Save and organise the things you find on the web, from a browser extension rather than yet another app. starrrs.com Halqain progress A place to study Arabic properly — drills, and a recorder for working through iʿrāb line by line. Kuickboxearly Email infrastructure for people who run things, built around the senders you actually care about. Minimalnarrowearly A curated directory of minimal, narrow-width websites — the ones that get out of the reader's way. Collecting submissions ahead of launch. minimalnarrow.com nauman.onein progress This page. A single place that points at everything else, instead of a link in a bio.

Built for other people

A studio, the client work that runs through it, and a couple of things built for one family.

Intellectalivestudio My software studio in Sydney — Rails, cloud apps and custom platforms built for other people's businesses. Most of the client work below runs through it. intellecta.co AgPagesin progress A marketplace putting farmers and agricultural contractors in touch without a middleman taking a cut. Little Helpers on the Runearly A small CRM for a small business — the ten things they need, and nothing else. Silsilaearly A family tree that behaves like a graph, because real families never fit in a table. HealthCompoundsearly Medical evidence laid out as a timeline, so you can see when the guidance changed and what changed it.

Games

Built to play with my kids. Free, in the browser, nothing to install.

TOMATO FURY runner EMBERBOUND fighter NITRO CLASH racing Perihelion 3d racing PROWL survival Windward flying GIBBON climber KINGS checkers ONO cards Linkline board Firefly Meadow co-op MUSTER co-op Imposter Station party Ember arena Courier Dash runner Page Dash runner Dune Dash arcade Snake Chase arcade Gem Collector arcade Clock Clicker idle A Wood Full of Small Things story Catch the Little Car cozy Riding a Photon science False Meadow webgl

Made to learn something

Not products. Just me working out how something behaves.

GameKitlive The multiplayer runtime the games above are built on — sprites, netcode, and a strict size budget. Physics simulations Chaos, orbits, wave interference, fire, magnetism, gravitational lensing — all of it interactive. Hero & shader studies Event Horizon, Liquid Light, Black Ice, Fluid Glass — what a landing page can do when it stops being a screenshot. Interaction experiments Eighteen short studies in motion, weight and feel. Some worked. Some became real interfaces.

For the kids

Made for mine, but anyone's are welcome to them.

Young Writers Clublive How a child can take a story they wrote and turn it into a real, published book. Birdy Buddieslive Learning birds by playing with them. The Web Builder's Journey How websites actually get built, explained for someone who's ten.

How I think about design

The judgement underneath all of the above.

Design principles What I look for before I call an interface finished, and why. Spacing, hierarchy, colour and motion are decisions, not defaults. How I think about design The longer version — how I read a problem before opening a design tool, and how I pressure-test a solution afterwards. Writing Notes on building, on Rails, and on doing a lot with very little. Conceptsearly Products I've designed but not built. Some never will be — the thinking was the point.

Get in touch

If something here is close to a problem you have.

Working on something in this territory?

Rails, developer tooling, agent workflows, or a product that needs someone who'll own it end to end — I'd like to hear about it.

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