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Dani Akash

Expert vibe coder, agent designer, and AI enthusiast

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Passionate about building high-impact products that solve real problems for real users.

Founding engineer behind BrowserOS, OSlash, and the Pickyourtrail mobile app.

Been architecting and shipping scalable products from scratch — long before AI started writing the code.

Skills

Front-End
React, Next.js, Expo, React Router, shadcn/UI, TanStack libraries, Radix UI
Styling
Tailwind CSS, CSS-in-JS (Linaria, Styled Components)
Build Tools
Webpack, Vite, Rollup, Parcel, Rspack
Mobile
React Native, Expo — cross-platform Android & iOS (100k+ downloads)
State Management
Redux, Zustand, React Query, Signals, XState, Nano Stores
Rendering
SSR, SSG, ISR, Server Components, Streaming SSR, Edge Rendering
Infrastructure
AWS Lambda, Serverless Stack, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Middleware
API Design
REST, GraphQL, Relay, urql, The Guild tooling
Frameworks
Svelte, Solid, Astro, Remix, Qwik
Runtimes
Node.js, Deno, Bun, WinterCG

Work Experience

BrowserOS (YC S24) — Founding Engineer

Nov 2025 — Present

Open-source agentic browser built for the age of AI.

Key Contributions

  • Agentic Layer: Architecting the agentic layer of BrowserOS — the core infrastructure that turns the browser into an autonomous workplace.
  • Agent Runtime: Designing and building the agent runtime that powers autonomous task execution across web pages.
  • Open Source: Shipping the foundations of an open-source AI browser in public.

Clarifai — Senior Frontend Engineer

Oct 2023 — Nov 2025

AI platform that helps users build complex AI workflows by combining various models.

Key Contributions

  • Clarifai Node.js SDK: Created a fully tested, typesafe SDK for integrating Clarifai into Node.js backends with auto-generated API documentation.
  • AI Workflow Builder: Spearheaded the development of a drag-and-drop workflow builder using React Flow and shadcn/UI — one of Clarifai's core features.
  • API Documentation: Set up Swagger-based API documentation for gRPC APIs using grpc-gateway with detailed code snippets for core SDK functionalities.
  • Release Automation: Established automated release process with changelog updates, SEO best practices, and integrated analytics.

Wundergraph — Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2023 — Sep 2023

GraphQL gateway for managing federated GraphQL, positioned as an alternative to Apollo Federation.

Key Contributions

  • Client SDKs: Created client SDKs for Svelte, Relay, and Expo — well-documented, tested, and widely adopted by customers.
  • Open Previews: Built an internal tool similar to Vercel's preview comments feature, later open-sourced.
  • Community: Participated in Show & Tell videos on YouTube and actively engaged with the community on Discord.

OSlash — Lead Frontend Engineer

Dec 2020 — Mar 2023

Started as founding lead engineer for the Chrome extension, promoted to Engineering Manager after successful v1 delivery.

Key Contributions

  • Chrome Extension: Led development of OSlash's Chrome extension from inception to launch.
  • Full-Stack: Used Next.js as full-stack framework for the main dashboard, Astro for performance-critical micro frontends using Islands Architecture.
  • Design System: Developed and maintained a custom design system using Tailwind CSS.
  • GraphQL Federation: Designed a serverless GraphQL federation with edge caching, authorization, rate limiting, and comprehensive error/metrics visibility.

Pickyourtrail — Software Engineer

Oct 2017 — Dec 2020

Digital travel assistant. Key role in building the mobile app and advancing the tech stack.

Key Contributions

  • Mobile App: Built the Pickyourtrail app for Android & iOS using React Native — 5-star rating on Google Play, 100k+ downloads.
  • TypeScript Integration: Led the successful integration of TypeScript into the existing web app.
  • Open Source: Actively contributed by open-sourcing modules created for the app in React Native Toolkit.

Redblacktree — Software Engineer

Nov 2016 — Oct 2017

Key Contributions

  • Cross-Platform Apps: Developed two cross-platform mobile apps using React Native with full offline functionality.
  • Windows App: Built a Windows app for UWP, published on the Windows Store, using a custom React.js-based framework.
  • Research: Assisted teams on Node.js and Vue.js projects while researching JavaScript development improvements.

doodleblue — Web Developer

Feb 2016 — Nov 2016

Key Contributions

  • Full-Stack: Led the development of full-stack applications using Laravel and built APIs for web and mobile apps.
  • Team Leadership: Promoted to team lead for a company-wide initiative to adopt React.js, React Native, Laravel, and Node.js.

Developer Community

Conference & Meetup Speaker

Active speaker at public meetups and conferences since 2017. All talks available on the speaking page.

React Native Docs Contributor

Written updated documentation for many components of the official React Native docs including Animated and PanResponder.

Open Source Projects

Built many projects for the React & React Native community including BetterImage, Rex State, Responsive Dimensions, and more at github.com/daniakash.

Author — JavaScript By Example (2017)

Published by PACKT. A book covering modern JavaScript programming with real web apps.

Education

Jeppiaar Engineering College

BE Computer Science & Engineering — 2012 to 2016, Chennai

Active participant in IEEE student council and Computer Society of India student team, helping with building websites for events and actively organizing contests and symposiums.

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