# Fardin Iqbal > Full-stack engineer who solo-built a 6-product healthcare SaaS ecosystem replacing $61K/yr in enterprise software. 200+ users in production. Based in New York. ## About Fardin Iqbal is a software engineer in New York, finishing B.S. Computer Science at Stony Brook University (May 2026). First-generation college student selected for the Bottom Line Scholars program. Sole developer behind a multi-product healthcare SaaS ecosystem for Big Minds Tiny Hands, a pediatric therapy staffing agency. BJJ coach and competitor. ## Featured Projects - [Tiny Thoughts](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-thoughts): Clinical data collection for ABA therapists — the people who teach children with autism through structured repetition. (Users: 37, Trials Recorded: 22,940+, Children Managed: 79, LOC: 86K) - [Tiny Steps CMS](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-steps): Practice management for four home health agencies in New York. (Users: 42, Patients: 205, Invoiced: $45K+, LOC: 99K) - [Tiny Time Keeper](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-time-keeper): Time tracking built in two days because the agency needed it yesterday. (Hours Tracked: 5,692, Employees: 33, Tests: 537, Deploy Success: 97%) - [AI Email Scraper](https://github.com/FardinIqbal/BigMindsTinyHandsEmailScraper): Every five minutes, this system reads the agency’s inbox, understands the referral buried inside each email, and writes structured data to a spreadsheet. (Referrals/mo: ~150, Time Saved: 20+ hrs/mo, Infra Cost: $0/mo) - [TinyToes Auditor](https://fardiniqbal.com): A clinical document validator that runs a 3. ## Case Studies - [Tiny Thoughts](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-thoughts): ABA Clinical Data Collection Platform. 22,940+ discrete trials recorded in 9 weeks. - [Tiny Steps CMS](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-steps): HIPAA-Compliant Practice Management. $45K+ invoiced through the system. - [Tiny Time Keeper](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-time-keeper): Multi-Tenant Employee Time Tracking. 2 days from zero to production. ## Blog - [The Correspondence: On Truth, Untruth, and Whether It Matters](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/the-correspondence): Two friends write letters to each other about God, reason, and whether a conversation is possible when one of them prefers untruth to truth. - [The Cost of Looking Closely](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/the-cost-of-looking-closely): There is a room I keep returning to in my memory, and every time I enter it, someone has already ruined it by mentioning the future. - [Systems Are Lossy Compression](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/systems-are-lossy-compression): Every system you adopt is a compression algorithm applied to reality. Compression always loses data. The question is what you are willing to lose. - [An Attempt to Find the Axioms of Jiu-Jitsu](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/axioms-of-jiu-jitsu): What if grappling has first principles the way mathematics does? Not techniques, but axioms. The irreducible truths from which everything else follows. - [From Email Chaos to AI-Powered Automation](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/from-email-chaos-to-ai-automation): Someone was spending four hours a day typing emails into a spreadsheet. I built the system that made that job disappear. - [Building Prometheus: Notes on Personal AI Infrastructure](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/building-prometheus): What happens when you stop using AI as a tool and start building it as infrastructure — persistent memory, specialized skills, and a system that genuinely improves with use. - [Why Love Needs No Reason](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog/why-love-needs-no-reason): Why the deepest commitments in life — to people, to craft, to ideas — resist justification. And why that’s not a flaw. ## Experience - [Software Engineer, Big Minds Tiny Hands / Tiny Platforms](https://fardiniqbal.com/about): Dec 2025 - Present - [Cyber Security Intern, New York City Housing Authority](https://fardiniqbal.com/about): Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 - [Design & Construction Technology Intern, Beyer Blinder Belle](https://fardiniqbal.com/about): Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 - [Marketing Intern, The Hardy Group](https://fardiniqbal.com/about): Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 - [Web Developer / Team Lead, International Socioeconomics Laboratory](https://fardiniqbal.com/about): Sep 2021 - Aug 2022 ## Education - Stony Brook University, B.S. Computer Science (Aug 2022 - May 2026) - The Bronx High School of Science ## Contact - Email: iqbal11219@gmail.com - GitHub: [FardinIqbal](https://github.com/FardinIqbal) - LinkedIn: [fardin-iqbal](https://linkedin.com/in/fardin-iqbal) - Site: https://fardiniqbal.com ## Recent Activity - **2026-05-02** — [Killed the CRT vocabulary, switched to Fraunces and warm paper](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-05-02-editorial-pivot-fraunces-warm-paper) _(reconsidered)_: Sitewide pivot from the retro-terminal aesthetic to an editorial one. Dropped VT323, Anonymous Pro, scan lines, film grain, and boot flicker. Body type is now Fraunces at 18px on a hue-55 paper background. - **2026-05-02** — [Switched off Glick, started Gordon Ryan's Foundation of Offense](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-05-02-foundation-of-offense-v01) _(reconsidered)_: Brian Glick's Only Way Out wasn't granular enough to embody. Moved to Gordon Ryan's Foundation of Offense V01 — added a verbatim transcript, a new principle, and a new skill to the Mat. - **2026-04-26** — [Wired Volume 02 into the Mat](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-04-26-wired-volume-02-into-the-mat) _(shipped)_: Brian Glick's Only Way Out Volume 02 transcribed verbatim, plus the first 12 moves wired into the graph as edges across 6 positions and a new principle. - **2026-04-23** — [Graceful fallback on /api/chat when the Gateway is down](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-04-23-chat-fallback-envelope) _(shipped)_: When the AI Gateway is down or the request is malformed, /api/chat now returns a 503 JSON envelope pointing agents to /llms-full.txt, /api/mcp, and /.well-known/mcp.json instead of a bare 500. - **2026-04-23** — [Deleted the eight legacy top-level routes; 308s now guarded by a spec](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-04-23-deleted-legacy-route-folders) _(removed)_: Deleted the eight pre-Fardin-Docs top-level routes — about, work, blog, contact, uses, failures, for-ai, interview — 2,298 lines gone. The 308 redirects in next.config.ts cover every legacy URL, and a Playwright spec asserts they still land on the right /docs/* target. ## Site Structure - [Home](https://fardiniqbal.com/): Stats, featured projects, experience, writing - [Work](https://fardiniqbal.com/work): All projects with category filtering - [Tiny Thoughts Case Study](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-thoughts): ABA Clinical Data Collection Platform - [Tiny Steps CMS Case Study](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-steps): HIPAA-Compliant Practice Management - [Tiny Time Keeper Case Study](https://fardiniqbal.com/work/tiny-time-keeper): Multi-Tenant Employee Time Tracking - [About](https://fardiniqbal.com/about): Bio, experience timeline, education, skills - [Blog](https://fardiniqbal.com/blog): Long-form writing - [Body](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body): Physical practice — lifting, jiu-jitsu, nutrition, metrics - [Mat](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body/mat): BJJ moves, positions, principles, skills - [Lifts](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body/lifts): Lifting sessions, logs, programs - [Nutrition](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body/nutrition): Food, supplements, protocols - [Metrics](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body/metrics): Weight, sleep, HRV, cheap-Android health tracking - [Garden](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/garden): Essays, stories, journal - [Essays](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/garden/essays): Long-form essays - [Stories](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/garden/stories): Short fiction and parables - [Journal](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/garden/journal): Dated notebook entries - [Vault](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/vault): Tools, stack, references - [Stack](https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/vault/stack): Everything that survived production - [Uses](https://fardiniqbal.com/uses): Tools and stack - [Contact](https://fardiniqbal.com/contact): Email, GitHub, LinkedIn - [Resume (JSON)](https://fardiniqbal.com/resume.json): Machine-readable resume - [Full Content for LLMs](https://fardiniqbal.com/llms-full.txt): Complete site content in one document - [Profile Summary](https://fardiniqbal.com/profile.md): Curated identity document ## Universal .md convention Every docs page is also served as raw Markdown with YAML frontmatter at the same URL with `.md` appended. For example, `https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body/lifts/2026-04-20` also resolves at `https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/body/lifts/2026-04-20.md` with `Content-Type: text/markdown`. Agents can fetch any page's raw Markdown this way — the single-page equivalent of /llms-full.txt.