whoami
A few notesabout me.
I didn't grow up planning to write CSS for a living. The plan — as far as plans go in a small town in Assam, India — was medicine. Engineering snuck up on me in 2015, and by the time I realized I'd chosen it for real, it already felt like the right wrong turn.
What pulled me toward the frontend specifically was the feedback loop. Backends have their own elegance, but the frontend gave me something immediate — a shape, a color, a transition that either feels right or doesn't. I spent the first few years learning how to make things work. The last few have been about making them feel good.
I work best when I can trace a thread all the way through — from a rough idea, to the interaction that expresses it, to the edge cases nobody asks about until they hit one. I've come to trust boring code that never surprises anyone, and careful restraint over another dependency. Most of the craft, I think, is in what you choose to leave out.
git log --principles
Three quiet principles
- a1f3c82feat(feel)
Make it feel right, not just work.
Working is the floor. A shape, a color, a transition that feels right is what I'm actually aiming at — the frontend's immediate yes-or-no is what keeps me honest.
- 7d94b15refactor(restraint)
The craft is in what you leave out.
Boring code that never surprises anyone beats a clever abstraction, and most dependencies I add come back to haunt me. Fewer moving parts, fewer regrets.
- 3e6f2abchore(threads)
Trace the thread end to end.
From a rough idea, to the interaction that expresses it, to the edge cases nobody asks about until they hit one — I'd rather own the whole thread than hand off half of it.
cat about.json
For the curious
{ "location" : "Assam, India", "timezone" : "Asia/Kolkata — GMT+5:30", "role" : "Senior SWE at GreatFrontEnd", "focus" : "UI systems, motion, performance", "off_the_clock": "Gym, the couch, Netflix with nothing to prove", "uptime" : "5+ yrs shipping" }
~/stack
Daily tools
- Frontend
- ReactNext.jsTailwindBase UIReact Query
- Languages
- TypeScriptJavaScript
- Backend
- tRPCPrismaSupabase
- Tooling
- ZodTurborepo
git log --timeline
How I got here
- 2026
- Role
Senior Software Engineer at GreatFrontEnd
Promoted to Senior and handed the reins on a new consumer product.
- Leading the end-to-end frontend for Socialmon — an AI-powered marketing intelligence platform for discovering, sharing, and saving viral content from LinkedIn, Instagram, and X.
- Sole engineer on the consumer product surface — architecting and building the frontend from zero to launch.
- Establishing the frontend architecture patterns, component abstractions, and API design decisions that will scale with the product.
- Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Base UI, Prisma, Supabase, Zod, tRPC, React Query, Cloudflare, Upstash, Motion
- 2025
- Talk
Spoke at React India
Presented Langnostic — a fast, scalable translation system built at GreatFrontEnd that continuously translates thousands of strings across React components and Markdown docs using AI, now powering all of GFE’s localized content.
- 2024
- Role
Software Engineer at GreatFrontEnd
Joined GreatFrontEnd and spent a couple of years deep in product and platform work.
- Contributed to the revamp of GreatFrontEnd Interviews (1M+ pageviews) — modernizing the UI, restructuring UX flows, and improving accessibility and engagement.
- Built both frontend and backend for GreatFrontEnd Projects — a platform of 50+ curated real-world frontend challenges serving thousands of monthly active users.
- Developed a dynamic, scalable MDX blog system (Next.js + Contentlayer) powering the GFE platform.
- Wrote frontend-focused technical content for marketing pages, contributing to a 15% increase in sign-ups.
- Mentored an engineering intern through day-to-day implementation, code review, and unblocking.
- 2023
- Promotion
Software Engineer III at Auzmor
Promoted to SE III — moved from shipping individual features to broader platform work.
- Led performance optimization across Auzmor Learn, lifting the Lighthouse score from 20 to 70 — meaningfully improving load time and user engagement.
- 2022
- Award
Most Valuable Performer at Auzmor
Recognized for contributions across features, security, and team processes during the year.
- 2021
- Role
Software Engineer I at Auzmor
Started my first real engineering role, shipping features for Auzmor Learn — their LMS.
- Implemented client-facing branding across Auzmor Learn — primary/secondary colors, favicon, logo, login layouts, and banners — adopted by 100% of clients.
- Built email-based OTP and authenticator-app 2FA, strengthening the platform’s security posture.
- Designed and built an in-house real-time forum for Auzmor Learn, enabling peer interaction and knowledge sharing.
- Optimized the sprint lifecycle process, reducing project delivery time by 25% and improving team throughput.
- Open source
First open source contributions
Started contributing to Kubernetes docs. First real taste of collaborating at scale — review culture, versioned releases, and all.
- 2020
- First job
Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant
Joined Cognizant during the pandemic as my first industry role. Got my first taste of how software gets built at scale and learned Java full-stack in the deep end.
- Milestone
Graduated in Computer Science
Finished my degree at Assam Don Bosco University — with a virtual convocation, courtesy of COVID.
- 2016
- Milestone
Moved from Silchar for university
Packed up and left home for the first time to study Computer Science at Assam Don Bosco University.
- 2015
- Choice
Chose engineering over medicine
Thought I’d be a doctor. Turned out engineering was the better fit — and the choice that shaped everything since.
- 2013
- Milestone
Started higher secondary
The two-year stretch that would quietly decide what I’d study for the rest of my twenties.