Arindam Kashyap

Full-Stack Developer | UI/UX Thinker · Building products that work and look like they mean it · React · Node.js · Figma · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

I'm a full-stack developer with a design eye — someone who lives at the intersection of engineering and experience, and finds that's exactly where the most interesting problems are. Most people pick a side. I never could. Not because I couldn't commit, but because I kept noticing that the real issues — the ones that actually frustrated users, slowed teams down, or made a product feel off — were almost always sitting in the gap between the two. That's the through-line in my work. Not a fixed role, but a way of operating — I adapt to what the problem needs. Sometimes that's writing a FastAPI backend. Sometimes it's rethinking a user flow from scratch in Figma before a single component is built. Sometimes it's asking the question nobody else in the room thought to ask. I've shipped across the full stack — MERN, Next.js, FastAPI, RAG-based AI pipelines — and spent equal time on the design side, thinking through information architecture, interaction patterns, and why a button placed two centimeters lower changes whether someone clicks it. My projects didn't start with "what should I build." They started with "what's actually broken here, and what's the leanest way to fix it." That mindset got me to the Smart India Hackathon finals. It's what made me useful as a Hackathon Evaluator — I could see both the technical gaps and the experience gaps in a product, simultaneously. I'm currently finishing my B.Tech in Computer Science at Lovely Professional University, and I'm looking for environments where the problems are real, the work is cross-functional, and adapting quickly is considered a strength — not a liability. If you're building something that sits at the edge of design and engineering, I'd like to be in that conversation.