Hexbolt is a one-person practice run by Neeraj Garg — 13 years shipping 0 → 1 systems and rebuilding the ones that broke in the way. Founders bring me in when the architecture has to be right the first time.
Get the structural decisions right early. Everything else can be refactored. The data model usually can't.
Algorithmic trading taught me this in capital markets. The same discipline works on roadmaps, hiring, and code review.
Most teams are optimizing the wrong half. The hard work is talking to people, watching them break things, then deleting features.
From wireframe to first paying customer. I architect, build, and ship the production v1 of your product — usually solo, sometimes alongside a designer or your first hire.
For teams who feel something is off but can't name it. Two weeks reading code, one week interviewing the team, then a written plan you can actually execute.
You have a Rails or Django monolith that worked at 10k MAU and is melting at 100k. I rebuild it without freezing the team or your roadmap. Done it twice end-to-end.
For founders who need a senior technical mind in the room — but not a $300k headcount. Hiring, code review, roadmap, vendor calls, fire prevention.
Designed and built a real-time booking platform for car servicing, washes, and roadside breakdowns — Uber-style matching between mechanics and consumers, from a blank repo.
Inherited a Ruby on Rails backend that worked but couldn't scale. Re-architected the whole thing for performance, scalability, and maintainability without freezing the product team.
Long-running embedded engagement. Python + Django + PostgreSQL on AWS for a capital-markets platform. The longest single engagement of my career — and the one that taught me the most about disciplined long-term decisions.
Joined as the first technical hire and took the entire stack over from a third-party agency. Scaled the consumer site, shipped the mobile site, integrated payments — the engagement that hardwired my zero-to-one instincts.
I started in 2011 as a Quality Engineer because shipping software you couldn't trust felt wrong to me. Spent the next 13 years on the other side of that wall — making sure people actually could.
Along the way I was the first tech hire at Dineout, CTO at a marketplace startup, Technical Architect at a health-SaaS, and spent three years embedded at a capital-markets platform. In parallel I built algorithmic trading systems for myself — which turned out to be the best teacher of disciplined, emotion-free decision-making I've had.
Today I'm building a marketing-tech SaaS on the side, and I take one or two outside engagements at a time as Hexbolt.
Always curious. Always building.
Always user-first.
Thirty minutes. No pitch deck, no NDA, no recap email afterward unless you ask for one. We'll figure out if there's a fit. If not, I'll point you at someone better suited.