Hi, I'm Akshay.
I design and engineer modern digital products.
I care about design systems, frontend architecture, accessibility, motion, and AI-powered developer experiences.
Open for freelance work right now
Currently taking on freelance and contract work — design systems, frontend architecture, full product builds — alongside select full-time opportunities.
Start a projectRecent work, in depth
Hoot
A cross-platform desktop music player with offline playback and a custom theme system.
Interior Design Studio Website
A marketing site for an interior design firm, built around visual storytelling and layout clarity.
Astrology Portfolio Website
A branding-led portfolio site for an astrology consultant, built for clarity and conversion.
How I think about building
Good interfaces are mostly restraint — the same token used everywhere instead of five approximations of it, the same interaction pattern instead of a clever new one per screen. I'd rather ship a system that a team can extend without asking me than a flourish that only works because I built it.
Building in the open
The source for this site, and the smaller things built outside client work, live on GitHub.
View GitHubFrom the lab
Scroll-scrubbed motion study
A small set of scroll-driven transforms — pinned sections, scrubbed timelines — built to test where scroll-linked motion helps versus where it just adds noise.
Reduced-motion audit tool
A small in-browser tool that walks a page's animated elements and flags which ones don't respect prefers-reduced-motion.
Three.js particle field
A GPU-instanced particle field reacting to pointer position, as a first real Three.js/React Three Fiber build.
Short notes on engineering
Nothing published yet — the first pieces are in progress.
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