ASP.NET, SQL & Python by day at Fibre2Fashion — exploring agentic AI alongside it. By night, freelance modern full-stack — Next.js, Supabase, Resend.
I split my week between enterprise reliability and startup velocity — discipline of one, speed of the other.
Day job · Fibre2Fashion, Ahmedabad
At Fibre2Fashion: ASP.NET Core + SQL Server is my day-to-day foundation. Added Python for data pipelines and large-scale scraping (requests, Playwright, Selenium). More recently started exploring agentic AI — LangChain, RAG, tool-using agents — and shipped a first production AI chatbot.
Nights & weekends · Independent
I ship modern web products with the trending stack — Next.js 15, Supabase for DB and auth, Resend for email, Razorpay/Stripe for payments, Cloudinary for media. I explore every new free tool and pick the best fit per project. Idea to live URL in weeks.
Real users, real revenue. Tap any card for the full case study.
A direct-to-consumer storefront with product catalog, cart, checkout, inventory, and an admin panel the owner actually uses.
A customizable salon-booking template — each owner gets a branded deployment with their own services, stylists, slots, payments, and SMS confirmations.
An autonomous Python research agent — give it any topic and it plans sub-questions, searches the web, fetches + extracts content, scores sources with Claude, and synthesizes a structured report with citations. Live progress streamed over SSE.
Clear scopes. Fixed prices. AI baked in where it actually moves the needle — not as decoration.
Next.js 15 + Supabase auth + Resend + Razorpay/Stripe. The trending stack picked deliberately. Idea to launch in weeks.
GPT chatbots, RAG over your docs, tool-using agents. Practical AI baked into the product where it actually helps, not as decoration.
Razorpay/Stripe checkout, subscriptions, webhooks. Plus OTP, transactional email, media, anything your product needs.
Core Web Vitals in the green, schema-marked content, structured data. Rank on the queries that move revenue.
You talk to me, you get builds from me. The same person from kickoff to handoff.
30 min. We map the goal, the must-haves, and the boring parts. You get a written brief either way.
Within 48 hours: scope, milestones, price, timeline. No ‘+ taxes’, no surprises.
You see real progress every Friday. Tweak direction without paying change-order fees.
Production deploy, docs, Loom walkthroughs, and 2 weeks of free post-launch support.
The short version — for anyone Googling the name.
Manuj Rai is a Full-Stack & AI Engineer based in Ahmedabad, India. By day at Fibre2Fashion he builds internal web systems on ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, and Python — including production AI features with RAG and LangChain on the company's first agentic rollout. By night he ships modern web products as a freelance developer with Next.js 15, Supabase, Resend, and Razorpay / Stripe.
Recent freelance work includes the Trendverse D2C ecommerce build and the Hair Crezz salon booking template. Manuj works remotely with clients worldwide from Ahmedabad, India (IST), with same-day overlap for Indian teams and comfortable hours for US / EU.
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