Kenil Kanani

I build products that ship.

Full-stack engineer in Surat, India. I take products from an idea to people using them, at startups and on my own.

Now

Software developer at Whattaplace, building space booking and Space Finder, its AI agent.

Work

Surat is a city of looms, so here my work is cloth. Each product is a thread passed across the thirteen layers of the stack, and it comes to the surface wherever I built that layer.

Whattaplace, Software developer, 2025 to now. Layers built: Interface, Admin, Auth, API, Data, Search, AI, Payments, Email, Realtime, Documents.
Shyo, Own product, 2026. Layers built: Interface, Mac app, Auth, API, Data, Payments, Email.
Movefast, Own product, 2026. Layers built: Interface, Admin, Auth, API, Data, Payments, Email.
Frame2PDF, Own product, 2025. Layers built: Interface, Extension, Auth, API, Data, Payments, Documents.
Hezalt, Own product, 2025. Layers built: Interface, Extension, Auth, API, Data, AI, Email.
Salaah Shots, Software engineer intern, 2025. Layers built: Auth, API, Data.
UPPPLY, Frontend developer intern, 2024. Layers built: Interface, Admin, Auth, Search, Documents.

What each layer means →

How I work

I like the early, messy part of a product: working out what to build and how to make it work with what you have. Pick the right tool, ship it, learn from the people using it, and keep the code clean enough to move fast again tomorrow.

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