Uses
An honest inventory of the tools behind the work on this site. No affiliate links, no aspirational gear. This is my current set, checked September 2026.
Thinking & shipping
Notion
PRDs, research notes, personal wiki
Linear
Issue tracking when working with a team
Figma
Wireframes, flows, quick mocks
Mermaid + Excalidraw
Architecture diagrams in-repo and whiteboards
The analytical stack
Python (Pandas, scikit-learn)
Cohort analysis, feature engineering, notebooks
Power BI + Excel
Dashboards and scenario models
SQL (Postgres, SQL Server)
Every project starts with a query
Gemini + a web research API
Multimodal and research-augmented LLM work on Aarchid (co-built)
Writing code
VS Code + GitHub Copilot
Agent mode for scaffolding; inline for refactors
Claude + ChatGPT
Longer reasoning loops and architectural sparring
JetBrains Mono
Editor font — ligatures on
Night Owl and Vercel themes
Editor colour themes, rotated
What I build on
Work laptop
Day-to-day work machine
Lenovo ThinkPad (personal)
Side-project machine — Linux for experiments
Samsung 27" 1440p
Primary external monitor; VS Code + browser split
Logitech MX Master 3S
Scroll wheel worth every rupee
This portfolio runs on
Next.js 16 (App Router)
React 19 · Turbopack · MDX for long-form content
TypeScript strict
noUncheckedIndexedAccess for safety
Framer Motion + Three.js
Scroll reveals, and the wireframe scene on the Lab page and some case-study headers
Vercel
Hosting, analytics, edge OG generation
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