Hello, I’m Akash.

Founding engineer. Deep in the frontend, opinionated about architecture.

I build products end to end. The frontend is where I am deepest and the architecture is where I am most useful, which in practice means being the person who owns the whole thing, from the first component down to the deploy and whatever breaks after it.

the honest version, not the LinkedIn one

I have been doing this for five years now, the last four of them at NymbleUp here in Nagpur. Vue 3, Pinia, design systems, and the architecture calls that quietly decide whether a codebase is still pleasant to work in two years later.

Somewhere in between I started shipping my own products at night, which is where the founding engineer habits came from: pick the stack, draw the boundaries, write the thing, ship it, then answer the support emails. One of them, an open source React PDF library called PDFx, is sitting at 1,142 stars, which still surprises me a little every time I look.

These days a good deal of the typing is done by Claude Code and Cursor. They are fast, tireless, and confidently wrong just often enough to keep me in a job. I still own the architecture, the taste, and every bug that makes it to production, so the arrangement feels fair.

Right nowGetting PDFx steady enough to call it 1.0, and rewriting this page you are reading.

my pair programmer never gets tired and never gets it quite right

Things I’ve built

Three of them are alive and being used by people who are not me.

PDFx

Open source, 1,142 stars

A React PDF component library you copy into your project instead of installing a runtime you cannot see into. Twenty odd fully typed components, a theme system that controls type, spacing and page setup, and a CLI on npm that wires it all into an existing project.

React, TypeScript, react-pdf, Zod, Turborepo

started as a weekend fix for a problem at work

PDFx Builder

Live product

Draw a document on a canvas, or just describe it, and get back real react-pdf TSX that belongs to you. The preview runs the actual renderer inside a Web Worker, so what you are looking at is exactly what exports. No headless browser anywhere.

Next.js, React, TypeScript, Vercel

featured on Product Hunt

QuickSnap

Live product

A screenshot and feedback tool for Google Workspace. The bytes go from your browser straight into your own Google Drive and never touch my servers. Annotate, blur out anything private, and leave Figma style pins for the rest of your team.

Nuxt, Vue, Chrome Extension APIs, Google Drive API

rated 5.0 on the Chrome Web Store

Where I’ve been

  1. Senior Frontend Developer, NymbleUp Solutions

    2022 to now (still here)

    Led the frontend for three major product features, moved forty odd components off Vue 2 onto Vue 3 with Pinia, and built the design system of thirty components the whole team now builds on. Lazy loading, code splitting and virtual scrolling took forty percent off the dashboard load time.

  2. Frontend Developer, Brainstorm Force

    2021 to 2022

    Customer facing Vue applications, Vuex holding together long multi step flows, reusable component libraries, and a good deal of Google API integration.

  3. Web Developer, VB Innovative

    2020 to 2021

    Where I learned to make things responsive, quick, and willing to work in whatever browser somebody handed me.

five years, three companies, one very long list of edge cases

What I reach for

Every day
TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue 3, React, Next.js, Nuxt
Architecture
design systems, monorepos, state strategy, API design, performance budgets
State
Pinia, Vuex, Zustand
Around it
Node, Express, REST APIs, serverless, MongoDB
Tools
Vite, Turborepo, pnpm, Vitest, Git, Vercel
Lately
Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI API, MCP, Chrome Extension APIs