Engineer. Writer. Conversationalist.

I'm Aditya - a frontend engineer by profession, a writer by heart and a conversationalist by nature.

Projects

Giftwise

A gift recommendation app built with GPT-3 and launched during Valentine's week for personalised gifting recommendations that generated 100s of recommendations within hours.

Intersection Counter

A library to track the count of elements yet to enter the viewport and be used to build features like unread count of unread messages.

Google Keep Clone

A Google Keep Clone that to replicate their grid UI with animations and dark mode including state management using redux-toolkit.

Styling and Interactions

An ever-growing set of components that are a result of my experiments with micro-interactions. It currently utilizes the best of Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion but I will be adding some 3D ones soon too.

Blogs

Lessons from my first software engineering job.

My name is Aditya and I am a College dropout currently building the future of commerce at Plaza with some really smart and driven people. I got my first job amidst the pandemic in 2020. Link to my full story. Now moving on, I will share some rules t...

Developer Journey of a Failure Student

In 2018, when I passed out of high school, I did what most Indian high school grads from the science stream do. I took a year off to prepare for the JEE exam that can get me into an IIT. But something strange happened in that one year. Along with pre...

Uploading images the right way

Images are an important part of any web application so writing a clean upload logic is very important. In this article, we will try to create a custom react hook to handle that logic which can later be extended to support video uploads easily as well.