Hello, world — and welcome to akrathee.dev

This is the first post on the new site, which means it's also the canonical place to explain what this project is and why it exists.

who I am

I'm Arvind Rathee — Frontend Developer II at Daffodil Software, based in Gurugram. The last 4.5 years have been mostly React + TypeScript: hospital systems, intercity-transport fintech, and now a childcare SaaS platform where I'm running an LLM-assisted JSP → React migration using Claude Code. (Yes, that's a real thing I do at work. It's as fun as it sounds.)

why a new site

The honest answer: I wanted a place that looks like the kind of work I want to do.

A boring static resume page doesn't do justice to the story I want to tell. An interactive, terminal-themed site that boots up in front of you — and where you can run git checkout to navigate — does.

The site itself is part of the portfolio.

what's here

• An IDE-style shell with a sidebar, tabs, and a terminal drawer.
• A blog (this) where I'll log what I'm learning, especially as I push deeper into the full-stack side via .NET.
• Project case studies — Vimo, Chalo, HIMS Agroha. Real systems, real numbers.
• A /bucket-list for the longer-term wishlist (engineering + personal).

what's next

The site is shipping in phases (you can read each one in the build log). Next up: deploy to akrathee.dev for real. After that, the cadence I want to hold is 5+ posts a month — mostly about migrations, performance, and small engineering wins.

Pull up a chair. git status says there's plenty to commit.