04  industry experience meets curious tinkering

Hi, I’m Sheraj.

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SHERAJ // build-in-public

I’ve spent close to twenty years in the chemical and coatings industry, working across technical sales, operations, supply chain, and training. I don’t have a computer science background, but I do have a tinkering mind. Over the years, I’ve found myself solving problems wherever they turned up, whether at work or while meddling with some bit of tech at home.

That goes back a long way. I’ve loved computers and gaming since I was a kid, and I’ve pretty much always been in self-taught mode: learning whatever caught my eye, usually by taking it apart and putting it back together. The tinkering started with hardware, building my own machines and getting them to run the way I wanted.

When the pandemic hit and the world slowed down, I leaned in properly. I taught myself to build home servers and fell deep into self-hosting, the kind of rabbit hole that quietly eats your weekends. I also started taking courses in robotic process automation, then AR, VR, and XR development in Unity for the Meta Quest.

From there, it kept spreading: web development with Next.js, React, and Astro, plus a detour into blockchain and Solidity. None of it was for a certificate on the wall. It was curiosity, followed wherever it led.

Lately, that curiosity has gone almost entirely to AI: agents that do real work and hand tasks off to each other instead of sitting around waiting for prompts. I build them on harnesses like Hermes and OpenClaw, and move fast with Claude Code and Codex carrying a lot of the load. Years of managing teams and operations mean I can speak to the business side too, not just the code, which matters more than I expected once you’re deciding what is actually worth building.

I’m not here teaching from a podium, but I genuinely love sharing what I learn. Honestly, half the fun is passing it on. That’s what this site is for: a place to share my journey through tech and whatever I pick up along the way.

The stack I reach for

AI agents Astro React Cloudflare Self-hosting Automation

Positioning line

I connect operational experience with hands-on technology to build things that solve real problems.

Software map

Tools I work with

My toolkit grew through projects rather than a formal curriculum. These are the tools I’ve picked up while building, automating, experimenting, and occasionally disappearing into a weekend project.

Build

Websites, interfaces, and useful tools built by following curiosity.

Astro React TypeScript Tailwind Node.js GitHub

Design

Shape ideas into layouts, assets, and brand systems.

Figma Canva Photoshop Illustrator

Automation

Turn repeatable work into practical, reliable systems.

Notion Zapier Make Airtable Cloudflare

AI + Agents

Build agents that do real work, collaborate, and hand tasks off.

Claude Code Codex Hermes OpenClaw ChatGPT Perplexity

Infrastructure

Home servers, virtualization, and the self-hosted rabbit hole.

Proxmox Unraid Cloudflare

Blockchain + Game Dev

Smart contracts and interactive experiences.

Solidity Ethereum Unity
Astro Tailwind TypeScript JavaScript React Python C# SQL PostgreSQL Supabase Airtable n8n UiPath Photoshop Lightroom Notion GitHub Docker Cloudflare Vercel Tailscale Proxmox Unraid Solidity MQL5 Unity

Working style

How I like to build

01

Learn by building

I understand things best by taking them apart, putting them back together, and making something useful.

02

Start with the problem

Years in operations taught me to ask what is worth building before getting distracted by how to build it.

03

Share what I learn

Half the fun is passing discoveries on, whether through a walkthrough, a project, or a blog post.

Where to go next

See the work behind the words.

The work page has the projects worth a closer look, and the blog is where I think out loud and share what I learn along the way.