Heya!

I’m Yug.

I've led frontend teams and contributed architecturally at fast‑paced and high-growth AI‑native startups like Atlan, and Medblocks and Neverinstall previously.

I like building complex production‑grade UIs, design systems, and writing about what I learn along the way.

Featured Projects

.mapr

An AI-enabled mind-mapping workspace to organize your creative workflows and manage tasks. Similar to Miro with added AI support, and support for PDFs, audio, video, images, text nodes and such.

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Audiovis

Windows XP inspired Audio visualizer made using Rust+WASM, Canvas and Web Audio API.

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Featured blogs

• Throwing tests into code: Assert your assumptions

  Published:Feb 21, 2025 |  at 03:22 PM

  We were working on a <canvas> based UI feature and had to test interactivity, how did we do that without any DOM representation? We threw our tests directly into the code so our tests run along with our code to enforce correctness... But how!?

• Why must I become a great engineer

  Published:Feb 15, 2025 |  at 03:22 PM

  I don't owe it to anyone... or do I?

• YDKTS: Nominal Types

  Published:Oct 15, 2023 |  at 09:22 AM

  TypeScript gives you a false sense of security in type-safety, by only checking type structures. We fix that with a Nominal type system; allowing each type to have an identity beyond just it's member's types.