Welcome, stranger :vulcan_salute:

I'm Na'aman Hirschfeld, a Berlin-based startup founder and coder specializing in distributed systems, AI systems, and developer tooling.

In my day job I'm a freelance software engineer, but my hobby is OSS. Yes... I code for fun too.

Open Source

API Frameworks

• Spikard: High performance polyglot web framework written in Rust. Docs at https://spikard.dev
• Litestar: "mid-stack" Python API framework. Docs at https://litestar.dev

Dev Tooling

• AI Rulez: A CLI tool for managing and generating AI coding rules documentation from YAML configurations.
• Uncomment: Blazingly fast CLI to remove comments from code using tree-sitter grammars.
• GitFluff: The ultimate commit linter.

Testing Libraries

• Interface Forge: A powerful TypeScript library for creating strongly typed mock data factories using types and zod schemas.
• Polyfactory: A modern mock data generation library that uses python typing to generate values.

Utility Libraries

• Type Predicates: A comprehensive collection of type-guards, type assertions and related utils.
• Go Utils: Simple and performant utilities using Go generics inspired by JavaScript and Python.

AI & Data Processing Libraries

• HTML to Markdown: High performance Rust HTML to Markdown converter with bindings for Python, TypeScript, Ruby and PHP.
• Kreuzberg: High performance document intelligence framework. Docs at https://kreuzberg.dev
• Tree Sitter Language Pack: A Tree Sitter-powered language pack that simplifies parsing and analyzing programming languages.
• Prompt Template: Flexible and lightweight library for creating prompt templates.

Startups

• GrantFlow.AI: Currently co-founder and main developer of grantflow.ai - a product aiming to streamline STEM grant applications.

Broken Dreams (failed startups and products)

• Devlingo: an AI-powered design system.
• ProductHound: a WhatsApp-based product AI recommendation chatbot.
• BaseMind.AI: a high performance LLM gateway and clients generated using gRPC.
• Grantflow.AI: a sophisticated grant application writing platform.

💬 Let's Connect!

• You can find me on the Kreuzberg Discord Server.
• Visit my LinkedIn profile.
• Follow me on BlueSky.
• You can email me at nhirschfeld [at] gmail [dot] com.