# nahtnam Manthan Mallikarjun (@nahtnam) is a Principal Software Engineer at Mercury working on applied AI, product systems, and developer infrastructure. This personal site includes work history, writing, travel stats, a Golf R build ledger, and small public tools. ## Key pages - Home: https://www.nahtnam.com/ - Experience: https://www.nahtnam.com/experience - Blog: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog - Contact: https://www.nahtnam.com/contact - Travel: https://www.nahtnam.com/travel - Golf R Build: https://www.nahtnam.com/golf-r - Pomodoro Flip Clock: https://www.nahtnam.com/pomodoro - Text Me: https://www.nahtnam.com/text-me ## Writing - What Mattered While Building Mercury Command: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog/what-mattered-while-building-mercury-command - Announcing Next.js Route Jumper: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog/announcing-nextjs-route-jumper - Announcing TanStack Route Jumper: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog/announcing-tanstack-route-jumper - Claude Bought Me a Car: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog/claude-bought-me-a-car - How I Set Up a New Mac: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog/how-i-set-up-a-new-mac - YNAB for the Middle Class: https://www.nahtnam.com/blog/ynab-for-the-middle-class ## Entity facts - Person: Manthan Mallikarjun - Handle: @nahtnam - Role: Principal Software Engineer at Mercury - Topics: applied AI, product engineering, developer infrastructure, TypeScript, startups, personal finance, travel, cars, productivity - GitHub: https://github.com/nahtnam - X: https://x.com/nahtnam ## Access notes Public pages are intended to be crawlable and citable. Admin, sign-in, API, and password-gated private pages are not part of the public knowledge surface.