"Sreyaan sva-dharmo vigunah para-dharmaat su-anushthitaat" Better to walk your own path imperfectly than another's path perfectly. — Bhagavad Gita 3.35

I grew up in Navsari, a small town in southern Gujarat where Parsi fire temples stand next to Hindu mandirs and the chai tastes like monsoon rain. My grandfather would say "darshan karo" every morning — see clearly. That word followed me across three countries and became the name of what I'm building now.

London for studies — Business Computing at Greenwich, Advanced Diploma at Sunderland. Dubai for production — VFX pipelines for Aquaman, The Invisible Man, The Last of Us Part II. Back to India, Ahmedabad, to build companies: GraymatterOnline (2015), Graymatter International (2018), Coeus Digital Media (2020), KnowAI (2024).

Four companies across a decade. Every one hit the same wall: the backend. Three weeks of plumbing before writing a single line of business logic. So I built the tool I always needed.

A self-hosted Backend-as-a-Service built in Rust. Triple-store architecture over PostgreSQL. One binary that gives you a database, real-time sync, authentication, row-level permissions, and an admin dashboard. SDKs for React, Angular, Next.js, PHP, and Python.

graph TB
    subgraph DarshanDB["DarshanDB — Single Rust Binary"]
        API["REST + WebSocket"]
        AUTH["Auth\nArgon2id + JWT"]
        PERM["Permissions\nRow-Level Security"]
        QE["Query Engine\nDarshanQL"]
        TS["Triple Store\nEAV over Postgres"]
        SYNC["Real-Time Sync\nMutation → Diff → Push"]
    end

    subgraph SDKs["Connect from anywhere"]
        React["React"]
        Next["Next.js"]
        Angular["Angular"]
        PHP["PHP"]
        Python["Python"]
    end

    DarshanDB --> SDKs

    style DarshanDB fill:#1a1a2e,stroke:#F59E0B,color:#fff
    style SDKs fill:#0f3460,stroke:#F59E0B,color:#fff

446 Rust tests. 92 TypeScript. 141 Python. 52 PHP. Auth, permissions, queries, and real-time — working end-to-end.

github.com/darshjme/darshandb

Ph.D. Business Computing Science | CCNA | MCSE | CEH

University of Greenwich | University of Sunderland

VFX production: Aquaman | The Invisible Man | The Last of Us Part II

_{Navsari | London | Dubai | Ahmedabad}