AI & Full-Stack Engineer — I build the hard parts of products.
By day I'm a software engineer at Codifinary (CodeXray), working on a production observability platform. The rest of the time I ship AI and product work for startups across the 🇬🇧 UK, 🇺🇸 US, and 🇦🇺 Australia.
I like problems with real stakes — where correctness, latency, and money are on the line.
- 📊 Telemetry & dashboards at CodeXray —
Go·ClickHouse·React - 🤖 An AI bot that reviews PRs and writes tests —
Claude Code+MCP - 🔎 Retrieval over real-world data —
Qdrant·LiteLLM·Langfuse - 💳 Payment & marketplace flows — escrow, automated payouts, disputes
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| AgentHub | Real-time collaborative AI dashboard — CRDT sync (Yjs), offline-first, Groq-backed model proxy |
| interceptor-engine | Published npm package for real-time API & LLM observability — patches fetch to capture latency, cost & prompts |
| Explain Code Simply | Published VS Code extension — AI-powered code explanations, right in the editor |
- 💼 Software Developer @ Codifinary (CodeXray)
- 📦 Published an npm package + a VS Code extension
- 👩💻 Ex GDSC Core · Ex IEEE Student Chapter Chair
- 🔬 Contributor to a patent-backed project
- 🧩 250+ LeetCode · CodeChef 3★
💬 Open to freelance projects, collaborations, and genuinely hard problems.
📫 payalm.lenka@gmail.com 🔗 Portfolio: payallenka.vercel.app · Studio: Lenkara ✍️ DEV · Medium · Substack · 💼 LinkedIn · 🧩 LeetCode
I'd rather ship one real thing than a hundred demos.