Samnan Rahee

Engineering ■ Design ■ UX

Me?

I'm a Design Engineer bridging the gap between beautiful interfaces and robust systems. I craft experiences that are visually compelling and performant backed by infrastructure that powers them.

Currently on a break, diving deep into systems & low-level engineering with Zig, while also flying high honing my design skills even further. Previously, I've worked with seed-stage founders at Universal Machine (a Silicon Valley venture studio) to ship MVPs fast, and helped YC-backed startups like Replo and Osmind build their products.

I've led full-stack teams, built data tooling for AI agents, engineered highly-interactive frontend apps, and architected video infrastructure on Cloudflare. As a Founder & CTO at Void Studio, I mentored teams, defined technical architectures, and maintained multiple products while ensuring seamless deliveries.

What I'm About

  • Tinkering: Constantly experimenting with new technologies—from LiveViewJs and reactivity patterns to serverless architectures and functional programming paradigms.

  • Building: Making cool but performant webapps, crafting UI/UX designs, and contributing to open-source. I love the entire stack—from pixel-perfect interfaces to database migrations and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Mentoring: Helping teams ship faster, giving talks on FP and state management, and sharing knowledge from working with multiple startups. I've helped teams increase their shipping speed by 1.5x.

Current Focus

Exploring startup ideas, diving into serverless architectures, and getting deeper into the engineering ecosystem with a focus on devops/mlops. Always learning, always building.

Beyond Code

I love to talk about DX, music, mechanical keyboards, or startup ideas. Always happy to connect and collaborate.