field notes / vol. 1 β€” a life run in parallel

The Neha
Almanac

Eleven years deep in frontend work, and just as many threads pulling at once β€” two business ideas, a five-country travel streak, and chai as the one constant through all of it.

11 yrsbuilding for the web
2ventures being planned in parallel
5countries β€” Japan to Sri Lanka
12core technologies in the stack
πŸ‹οΈβ€β™€οΈ6–7 AMGym β€” Hevy β†—
πŸ’»9–6 PMFrontend β€” LinkedIn β†—
β˜•all dayChai
✍️eveningsWriting β€” Medium β†—
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Career

Lead Frontend Developer Β· Technogise Β· Pune
still torn between Angular and React β€” don’t make me pick

Tech skills

Angular v17–21 Signals NgRx RxJS Nx Monorepo SSR React Node.js AWS Lambda DynamoDB Ruby on Rails MCP / Agentic AI

Side project β€” Save That URL

A Chrome extension she solo-maintains for saving open tabs as named sessions. Rewritten from React/Redux to dependency-free vanilla JS, migrated to Manifest V3, with cross-device sync and a keyboard shortcut added along the way.

Vanilla JS Manifest V3 chrome.storage.sync

Where the 11 years went

Technogise

Oct 2018 – present

Hashmap

Mar – Sep 2018

GS Labs

~2015 – 2018 (est.)

Ventures

Two ideas, both still on the side of a day job
still just a plan β€” ask me again in six months

The cafΓ©

< β‚Ή10L 6-mo window ~10 hrs/wk Break-even: 8–18 mo

Cloud kitchen or kiosk fits the limits best β€” but timelines don't quite match.

idea β†’ modeled β†’ deciding β†’ launched

The decor business

Warm Minimal Bohemian Renter-friendly

Grouped by look, not product type β€” with her sister, an interior designer.

idea β†’ modeled β†’ deciding β†’ launched
Neither has launched yet β€” both still in the planning stage, alongside a full-time lead role.

Travel

Five countries so far, cafΓ©-hopping in between
already plotting where’s next

has a Medium essay β€” click to read no essay yet See all writing β†’

Japan

Temples, and an order to everything. Read the essay ✎

Nepal

Mountains.

Bhutan

Quiet, and altitude. Read the essay ✎

Sri Lanka

Coastline.

Vietnam

Street food.

December birthday trip β€” Himachal Pradesh

Manali, Bir Billing, and Dharamshala with friends. A trip built around a birthday rather than a destination.

The standing habit β€” cafΓ©-hopping

Not one trip but a running one: new cafΓ©s sought out wherever she is, chai the constant order.

Also across India

Rann of Kutch (Gujarat), Mumbai, Delhi, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Sikkim, and Sethan β€” alongside Manali and Bir Billing above.

Writing

medium.com/@nehasaggam Β· 70 followers
half of these started as a 2am note-to-self

A developer, a nature lover, and an imaginary traveller.

Travel essays and engineering notes, side by side β€” the same split as everywhere else on this page.
// built from what's come up across our conversations β€” updates as more does.