Where it all began
Growing up I had two very different ambitions — one was to study an MBA and build something in business, the other was to dive deep into technology. I wasn't sure how to reconcile the two, until one afternoon in 7th standard I opened a text editor and typed my first <html> tag.
The inspiration? Pottermore — the official Harry Potter website (now Wizarding World). It was the most magical thing I had ever seen on the internet. Dark atmospheric backgrounds, golden fonts, interactive quizzes that sorted you into Hogwarts houses, animated elements that felt alive. I wanted to build something like that.
The obsession begins
What I loved most about Pottermore wasn't just the Harry Potter content — it was how the website felt. Every hover, every transition, every page load had personality. You could take the Sorting Hat Quiz, discover your Patronus, get sorted into a Hogwarts house.
I thought: if a website can feel this alive, I want to learn how to do that. So I started building my own HTML/CSS pages — first static, then with JavaScript hover effects. No tutorials, just View Source and trial and error.
From fan sites to full-stack
After that first site, I never stopped building. Every new technology became a new spell to learn. Over the years I went from:
- Static HTML/CSS pages → React & Next.js SPAs
- Copy-pasted JavaScript → TypeScript, Node.js, Express
- Hobbyist projects → research internships at IIT & IIIT
- Competitive programming as a hobby → Specialist on Codeforces, Guardian on LeetCode
The MBA dream never fully left either — I still think about the intersection of technology and business every single day. But that afternoon in 7th standard made one thing clear: I was going to build things, not just study about them.
This portfolio site
This portfolio is the latest iteration of that same impulse — make it functional, but make it feel like something. The dual-mode design (3D view + 2D view) is a nod to the Pottermore philosophy of turning a website into an experience.
If you want to see what's under the hood, the source is on GitHub. And if you haven't visited Wizarding World recently, it's still just as magical as it was back then.
What's next
I'm currently working on Graph RAG pipelines, NLP corpora for low-resource Indian languages, and edge AI for cardiac monitoring. Each project is another <html> tag — a blank page that becomes something real.
If something here resonates, feel free to reach out. Always up for a good conversation about what we're building next.