Ray Nirola

Ray Nirola

Engineering leader and product builder

I build crisp software for ambitious products.

VP of Engineering at Roger AiSDR (YC S24). I work across product architecture, infrastructure, and execution systems for teams that need to move quickly without losing operational discipline.

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Current
AI
Users scaled
300K+
Systems
0-1

Focus

I care about the parts of product engineering that compound: clear systems, fast iteration, and teams that can keep shipping without drama.

  • Product-minded engineering leadership
  • Fast, reliable web systems
  • Small teams, high ownership

Selected builds

Systems I have designed and shipped.

QueueScope

Native macOS dashboard for inspecting and operating BullMQ queues, with direct Redis reads and mutations routed through BullMQ's official runtime.

SwiftUI · Redis · BullMQ

Unified Engine

A Manifest V3 Chrome extension foundation with an end-to-end typed application stack.

tRPC · Vite · TypeScript

tRPC Starter

A small monorepo proving end-to-end type safety between an Express API and a Next.js client.

Express · Next.js · tRPC

Experience

Selected work and roles.

Cardlift

Head of Engineering

February 2024 - January 2025

Replayed

Software Engineer

July 2023 - February 2024

Kuberlabs

Software Engineer & Co-Founder

July 2018 - July 2020

Technical notes

Small patterns, kept public.

Typed retry helper API validation with Zod Client-side envelope encryption flow N-gram string matching