Hello, I am
Varun Khalate
I contribute to open source
I build creative projects
I document my learnings
I bring professional experience
Featured Writings
Handpicked thoughts and insights from my blog.
Apr 20, 2025
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How I Traded $1,100 in Bounties for a Call with Sahil Lavingia
From contributing to Shortest on GitHub to cold-emailing the founder of Gumroad, and what I learned from the 17-minute conversation that followed
- personal
- career
Sep 23, 2021
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Memoization in React
Learn about memoization and how do we use React.memo(), useMemo() and useCallback() to implement the memoization technique in React
- react
- tutorial
Oct 10, 2025
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Auto-syncing GitHub READMEs to My Portfolio
How I got tired of maintaining documentation in two places and built a solution to automatically fetch GitHub README content for my portfolio projects
- devtools
- tutorial
Featured Projects
Creative solutions and technical implementations.
Oct 10, 2025
Project
Base
A light weight deployment platform from scratch to understand CI/CD, cloud storage, and how code reaches end users.
- react
- deployment
- cloud
- redis
- storage
Nov 15, 2022
Project
Builderman
Builderman is an AI-powered web development agent that allows you to prompt, run and edit full-stack applications directly from your browser—no local setup required.
- Reactjs
- Tailwind
- Nodejs
- ExpressJS
- WebContainer API
Nov 15, 2022
Project
Tabman
A Chrome extension that brings powerful tab management capabilities
- vanilla js
- chrome api