Product Engineer @ Frappe Lending

Nihantra Patel

Product Engineer building and supporting Frappe Lending, an open source lending product on the Frappe Framework. Before the title, he was already known on the Frappe Forum, years of answering questions for anyone who asked, no obligation required.

Forum

7.4k replies posted

Community

1,100+ solutions marked

Recognition

5 Frappeverse nominations

The turning point

“Puri life yahi karna hai kya? Chalo kuchh naya karte hai. Are you interested in working on lending or other products?”
Rushabh Mehta, the conversation that led to Frappe Lending

Currently

Frappe Lending

Maintaining and developing the product, working on GitHub issues, support, and stability.

A career built one reply at a time

~2019

First replies on the forum

Started answering Frappe and ERPNext questions as a community contributor. No title, no obligation, just problems worth solving in public.

2019-24

Independent Frappe & ERPNext developer

Four-plus years implementing and customizing ERPNext for clients across oil, dye, architecture, pharma, and plastics manufacturing.

2022

ERPNext Awards finalist

First nomination, for Best Forum Contributor. Recognition catching up to years of unpaid forum and GitHub support.

2023

Best Forum Contributor

Won at Frappeverse for the volume and quality of community support. The forum work became official recognition.

Award listing ↗FRAPPEVERSE 2023
Jan 2024

Joined Frappe as an Engineer

Started on the Frappe Forum. Nervous, curious, and two weeks in learned at an offsite just how high the bar at Frappe really is.

2024

Forum, GitHub, then YouTube

The team handed over GitHub Issues alongside the forum. Then came an idea: turn recurring forum questions into videos. The channel took off from there.

Late 2024

The lending conversation

A quarter-end chat with Rushabh opened the door to something new. He introduced Nihantra to the Lending Team, and Frappe Lending became the next chapter.

Jan 2025

One year in

Marked a full year at Frappe. Recent quarters focused on customer support, keeping the lending product stable and smooth.

2025

Best Evangelist and Best Forum Contributor

Two more Frappeverse nominations, this time as a Frappe engineer rather than an outside contributor.

2026

eKYC India integration

Worked on integrating eKYC India into the Frappe Lending stack, adding identity verification to the lending workflow.

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