What I'm about.
Hey — I'm Safdar. Frontend engineer at Cube (Sequoia-backed), where I own the product UI across a data platform used by data and engineering teams at startups and scale-ups across the US and India. I ship with Next.js, React, and TypeScript — and I document the craft through 70+ tutorials on YouTube, watched by developers across India and beyond.
Outside sprint boards, I'm on a cricket ground, racking up kilometres on two wheels, hunting for the best food in Bengaluru, or somewhere in the hills with a camera in hand. I believe great engineers have full lives — it shows up in the work. If you're building something ambitious — at scale or from scratch — scroll down. I'd love to connect.
ChatGPT for real work from early 2023; from 2024, Claude, Cursor, and v0 are how I prototype and ship every week. In 2026, skipping that stack is the outlier.
70+
YouTube Tutorials
30+
Projects Shipped
4 Yrs
Experience
Where I'm based
I'm in Bengaluru, India — coffee, midnight deploys, and all. I build in public — shipping at Cube during the day, documenting the craft on YouTube after hours. Ping me via the contact page — no scraped bios, just my own feeds. I respond within 24 hours.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Open in Google Maps ↗I create, code & share.
Four years in, I've shipped production UI at a Sequoia-backed startup, built 30+ projects, and kept AI in the loop as a force multiplier — not a crutch. My tutorials break down real engineering problems, not toy examples. My YouTube channel, Safdar Ali Coding, started as notes-to-self — React, Next.js, and TypeScript walkthroughs. Now it helps thousands of developers get unstuck.
Beyond the keyboard.
Cricket, cycling, and slow mornings with strong chai. I move fast at work because I know how to genuinely switch off. You'll find me bowling on weekends, clocking kilometres on the bike, or rallying a group for a late-night barbecue. Small circle, real conversations — same energy I bring to team standups.
Wander often, wonder always.
Travel resets the mental model. Coorg for the mist and silence, the coast for perspective, Bengaluru's own pockets for everyday discoveries. I shoot on my phone, mostly — honest frames, no filters. The best ideas tend to arrive somewhere between a winding road and bad mobile signal.
