Dharmendra Sharma

Dharmendra Sharma

I’m an independent engineer building apps, creative tools, and automated workflows. I’ve spent around 18 years in software, including mobile engineering leadership at Expedia and Urban Ladder. Today, I take on freelance projects, publish my own apps, and build open-source tools that put AI to practical use.

Selected work

Creative SDKs and developer tools.

Zaps video editor with clip thumbnails, audio waveform, and timelineZaps carousel editor with the Frames panel open
CreativeKit in Zaps · Timeline and carousel editing

CreativeKit

Native SDK · Completed freelance work

A native photo and video editing SDK used in Zaps.

Creative automation

India Footnotes thumbnail: Carved Down?! — a rock-cut templeIndia Footnotes thumbnail: Found Alive — an elephant

India Footnotes

Automated storytelling

Short stories from India, with research, scripting, voice, visuals, rendering, and publishing handled by an automated pipeline. Real archival imagery sourced from the web, with a vision model judging every frame. No human in the loop. Some videos use Wan 2.2 for animation on rented GPUs.

YouTube ↗ Instagram ↗

Independent apps

Apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Figfold App Store artwork showing a text prompt and generated imageFigfold App Store artwork showing a generated image and save and share actions

Figfold

iOS · Mac

Create images from text with downloadable local models or Apple’s Image Playground.

In App Review
Nirogyam daily practicesNirogyam illustrated garden

Nirogyam

iOS

Gentle daily practices, with an illustrated garden that grows with your care.

App Store
All independent apps →

Open source & experiments

  • AI Automation Lab ↗

    Local experiments in AI support workflows, with human approval, failure recovery, and outcome verification.

  • AI Trend Radar ↗

    Discover and rank AI and developer topics, with explainable results and research briefs.

  • Agent Fault Lab ↗

    Reproduce AI agent failures and independently evaluate what happened.

Browse all projects →

Writing

All writing →

Work with me

I work with founders and engineering teams on native apps, creative editors, AI features, and workflow automation. Open to freelance projects and remote engineering roles.