Hi, I'm Dev
Founder and full-stack developer. I build software people actually use.
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About

I'm Dev, founder of Pixelact Studio, a product engineering studio, and Damn Labs, its experimental software lab. I work across product direction, interface, frontend, backend, and infrastructure. I care more about building useful software that sticks around than chasing quick launches.

Work Experience

Education

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript
React
Next.js
TanStack Start
Astro
Hono
Node.js

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Docker
Postgres

Tooling

Bun
Vite
Figma
My Projects

Check out my latest work

Products, developer tools, platform engineering, and selected design work. Here are a few of my favorites.

Damn Labs About page describing the experimental software lab by Pixelact Studio
Case Study
Live

Damn Labs

Pixelact Studio's experimental software lab for useful tools, prototypes, build logs, and unusual technical work.

Astro
TypeScript
Cloudflare Pages
EnvSift homepage showing six browser-local tools for environment-variable files
Case Study
Live
GitHub

EnvSift

A free, privacy-first toolkit with six browser-local tools for comparing, inspecting, formatting, merging, cleaning, and converting ENV files.

TanStack Start
React
TypeScript
Vitest
Abstract isometric line illustration representing video processing and storage
Case Study
GitHub

VidcastX

A substantial self-initiated video hosting and transcoding platform, currently in development across the app, API, queue, media, and storage layers.

TanStack Start
Elysia/Bun
PostgreSQL
Redis/BullMQ
Photographer Portfolio
Case Study
Dribbble

Photographer Portfolio

An opening-soon page for a portrait photographer pairing a soft editorial layout with a moody contact-sheet grid to tease the full portfolio.

Figma
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Writing

Latest from the blog

Notes on engineering, design, and the boring bits that keep the web fast. Here are the most recent ones.

EnvSift homepage showing six browser-local tools for environment-variable files

Building EnvSift around a privacy constraint

How keeping ENV contents in the browser defined EnvSift's architecture, six-tool scope, and v1.0.0 release.

Engineering
Damn Labs About page describing the experimental software lab by Pixelact Studio

Why I started Damn Labs

A clear boundary between Pixelact Studio's product engineering work and the useful tools, prototypes, and technical experiments that need room to start differently.

Notes
Loving the Boring Parts

Loving the Boring Parts

A love letter to static sites, slow pages, and the joy of pre-rendering everything.

Engineering
View Transitions Without the SPA

View Transitions Without the SPA

How a single line in the layout buys you page-to-page morphs - no client router framework required.

Engineering
Hackathons

I like building things

Only done one hackathon so far, but it stuck with me. A few people, a few cans of caffeine, and 48 hours to drag a half-baked idea into something that somehow worked.

Technothon

Technothon

GCET, Greater Noida

My one and only hackathon, hosted at my college GCET. My team built a computer-vision system for autonomous drones: the drone reads the ground through its camera, finds suitable spots, and drops seeds, aimed at planting trees in remote areas people can't easily reach. We took the idea from concept to a working execution and finished in the top 5 teams.

Contact

Get in Touch

Got a question, an idea, or just want to say hi? Everyone's welcome, anytime. Slide into my DMs on X, or Copied!. I read everything and reply when I can.
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