About
The Person Behind the Pixels
A little more about who I am, what drives me, and why I do what I do.
I'm a pre-final year CSE undergrad at IIIT Nagpur who fell in love with the “why” behind products. My journey started with graphic design at our university's design club, but the moment I sat in a room with 40 restaurant owners during my RapidRasoi internship and heard their real pain points — that's when product thinking clicked.
Since then, I've gone from writing my first PRD to owning product roadmaps at a stealth startup, building AI-powered SaaS tools deployed across 48 instances, and winning hackathons at IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee. I was selected as a Reliance Foundation Scholar from 60,000+ students and represented India at Harvard's HPAIR conference in Boston.
Outside of product work, you'll find me leading DevTalks at GDG IIIT Nagpur, dissecting retention funnels of apps I use daily.
What's next? A PM internship where I can bring my blend of user research, AI building, and strategic thinking to a team that ships products people genuinely need.
{ adventures }
aka touching grass
drag the photos around — they bounce off the edges
sand smiley at nit surathkal beach — the campus's unofficial stress-relief algorithm
the taj in agra, grayscale — some things just don't need color to land
snow-capped peaks in kashmir that make every laptop screen feel very, very small
shikara on dal lake — a floating flower market, the og farmers' market served on water
iit roorkee staircase leading into either class or a quiet existential crisis, tbd
mumbai traffic doing its thing — the city never really pauses for anyone
empty roads near iit hyderabad at an hour when the campus is still asleep
'fearless, the derring-do' — border roads sign in kashmir, featuring one very cold me
Content I Consume
What Shapes My Thinking
YouTube channels I regularly watch to stay sharp on product, AI, and strategy.
The Swag Wala PM
PM fundamentals, interview prep, and career transitions with humor
Aishwarya Srinivasan
AI, data science, LLMs, GenAI, and career advice from an ex-Google data scientist
Varun Mayya
Tech, entrepreneurship, software building, and emerging trends
Exponent
Tech interview prep — PM, engineering, system design mock interviews
TechnoManagers
PM and consulting interview prep from IIM Bangalore & IIT Kanpur alumni
Meta
How I Built This Portfolio
This portfolio is itself a product — designed, built, and iterated on with the same product thinking I apply to everything else.
Stack
Next.js 16
App Router for SSG, API routes, and zero-config deployment
TypeScript
Type safety for data-driven content — catches broken links at build time
Tailwind CSS v4
Design tokens via CSS custom properties, zero runtime overhead
Framer Motion
Declarative animations, scroll-driven effects, layout transitions
Design Tradeoffs
All content in data.ts, no CMS
Fast iteration, type-safe, no API latency. Trade-off: harder for non-developers to update.
No chart library for metrics
SVG + CSS animations keep the bundle under 200KB. Every KB matters for first impressions.
Dark-first design
Matches the developer/PM audience. Light mode is a courtesy, dark mode is the experience.
Boot screen on first visit
Sets the tone immediately. Skippable and session-stored so it never annoys.
What I'd Change Next
- Add MDX for case study content — long-form text in TypeScript objects is not ideal
- Implement real-time analytics dashboard showing portfolio visitor data
- Add internationalization for Japanese (I'm learning it)