Hi. I'm Yash.
Grew up in Jaipur, spent a year obsessing over a JEE rank number, and landed at IIT Bombay to study Civil Engineering. That is not really the part that stuck.
What stuck: a Photoshop habit picked up during COVID, and the design instinct that came with it.
Somewhere in there it clicked that designing something and solving a problem are the same move, just in different materials.
Before the titles
It started with Photoshop.
Photoshop, almost every day. Sometimes twice. Photo manipulations posted on Instagram. No promotion. People noticed anyway.
Code was already there from school: HTML, JavaScript, PHP. I picked design anyway. It asked for a way of seeing that felt harder to fake, and harder to hand off to a machine.
What I'm drawn to
Things that interest me.
Shipping in days what usually takes a team a quarter.
Being the same person who writes the spec and builds the demo.
Watching someone use something I built without needing it explained.
To build something from India that the world finds worth using. Something built here from scratch, not a local coat of paint on someone else's product.
What doesn't interest me
Not my thing.
Meetings that could have been a prototype.
Handoffs where the context evaporates somewhere between the meeting and the Jira ticket.
When I'm not building
Outside the screen.
Up next
I'd rather show you than tell you.
Cool story. Here's the receipts.
