Work Experience
Haast
2023 - Present
Sydney, Australia - Remote
Joined as the first frontend engineer at Pre-Seed; built and owned the majority of the frontend for the core platform automating marketing and legal compliance with AI. Scaled through Seed (Airtree $6M) and into Series A, now used by Fortune 500s.
- Built core product systems from scratch (workflows, reviews, asset management, rule pipelines) and document workflows (PDF comparison, annotations, commenting)
- Led frontend foundation: Tailwind + DaisyUI, Rollup → Vite (fast HMR), Svelte v3 → v4 (+ v5 reactivity)
- Improved reliability and scalability of complex state-heavy systems; established standards (TypeScript, linting, CI) and contributed to in-house design system and frontend scalability
Realm Labs
2022 - 2023
New York, United States - Remote
Built AI comic creation platform from scratch, covering authentication to drag-and-drop editor, AI scene and character generation, character chat, and integrated merch + payments. Worked closely with the founder and a team including creators of top open-source AI models.
Projects
Windows 11 Web
2021 - 2022
Built win11-svelte and win11-react reaching over 7.3M users, 18M views and earning 11.1K GitHub Stars.
- Hacker News, #1 on News Y Combinator (archive)
- JSNation open-source Awards, nominated for 'Fun Side Project of the Year'
- Endorsed by Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel), Eric Simons (CEO Bolt.new), Rich Harris (Creator Svelte) and JavaScript Weekly
Tech Stack
Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript · Svelte/Kit · React · Tailwind · shadcn/ui · Chart.js · PSPDFKit · Adobe PDF API
Backend / Database: FastAPI · Flask · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Prisma · Drizzle ORM · SQLAlchemy
Platform / Tooling: GitHub Actions · GCP · Stripe · Auth.js · LangChain · ESLint · Vitest · Storybook
Testimonials
Love your work! Especially your dedication to building with craft and creative exploration.
~ Julie Zhuo, Co-Founder Sundial | ex-VP Design Facebook
Well played https://win11-svelte.vercel.app
~ Guillermo Rauch, CEO Vercel | Creator Next.js
Also: modern web browsers are engineering marvels
Great work on this @yashash_pugalia!,
~ Eric Simons, CEO Bolt.new
One idea I had - you could even power the file system and standalone terminal app using the http://webcontainers.io api 👀
i love the 'build a pretend OS in svelte' trend — kudos @yashash_pugalia
~ Rich Harris, Creator Svelte
I want to say you're one of the most talented young engineers I've met, you make some engineers and even founders I've worked with look like amateurs. I highly encourage you to take risks, and do big things with your life. I'm always here to support you. Let's win together.
~ Will Yoo, Co-Founder Unto Labs, Thru
Love your work! Especially your dedication to building with craft and creative exploration.
~ Julie Zhuo, Co-Founder Sundial | ex-VP Design Facebook
Well played https://win11-svelte.vercel.app
~ Guillermo Rauch, CEO Vercel | Creator Next.js
Also: modern web browsers are engineering marvels
Great work on this @yashash_pugalia!,
~ Eric Simons, CEO Bolt.new
One idea I had - you could even power the file system and standalone terminal app using the http://webcontainers.io api 👀
i love the 'build a pretend OS in svelte' trend — kudos @yashash_pugalia
~ Rich Harris, Creator Svelte
I want to say you're one of the most talented young engineers I've met, you make some engineers and even founders I've worked with look like amateurs. I highly encourage you to take risks, and do big things with your life. I'm always here to support you. Let's win together.
~ Will Yoo, Co-Founder Unto Labs, Thru
Love your work! Especially your dedication to building with craft and creative exploration.
~ Julie Zhuo, Co-Founder Sundial | ex-VP Design Facebook
Well played https://win11-svelte.vercel.app
~ Guillermo Rauch, CEO Vercel | Creator Next.js
Also: modern web browsers are engineering marvels
Great work on this @yashash_pugalia!,
~ Eric Simons, CEO Bolt.new
One idea I had - you could even power the file system and standalone terminal app using the http://webcontainers.io api 👀
i love the 'build a pretend OS in svelte' trend — kudos @yashash_pugalia
~ Rich Harris, Creator Svelte
I want to say you're one of the most talented young engineers I've met, you make some engineers and even founders I've worked with look like amateurs. I highly encourage you to take risks, and do big things with your life. I'm always here to support you. Let's win together.
~ Will Yoo, Co-Founder Unto Labs, Thru
Education
Bennett University
Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech, Computer Science
