“He built our press's website and then taught us how to update it without calling him. That second part mattered more.”
Origami Aurum · a portfolio folded from paper & light
Gilded systems, hand-finished interfaces
- 200+ monogram lockups generated
- 3.1× inquiry lift for artisan brands
- 61% gem-build completion rate
- 5 boutique hotel sites
- 44% direct bookings rise
- 9,800+ GitHub stars collected
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About
fold openI'm Garvit Pandia — a design engineer and creative technologist from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. I finished my B.Des in Creative Technology (with a CS minor) at Northern Arc Institute of Design & Technology, 2021 – 2025, with a GPA of 3.6/4.0 and type-design coursework that grew into a toolchain. I build gilded, hand-finished things: boutique-brand sites, identity systems, tokens with a gold standard, and the quiet tools that hold them together. Everything here is folded from shipped work — 200+ monogram lockups, 3.1× inquiry lift, 5 boutique hotel sites, 2 regional design honors.
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand
- B.Des Creative Technology
- Northern Arc Institute of Design & Technology
- 2021 – 2025
- GPA 3.6/4.0
- Typography contest Top 10
“He learned our clients' taste faster than any contractor we've had. The hotel sites he shipped feel like the buildings themselves.”
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Selected projects
six sheetsGilded
“Boutique-brand sites that convert quietly — eight flagship builds, each an argument for the good thing.”
- 8 flagship sites shipped
- 3.1× median inquiry lift
- 2 regional design honors
Monogram
“Identity systems folded from a single seed mark — 200+ lockups ranked by a taste model.”
- 200+ lockups per seed
- 1,900 brand seeds generated
- 340 stars; used by a letterpress studio
Gilt
“An e-commerce shell for artisan goods — checkout in three steps, never more.”
- 2.8% checkout abandonment
- 9 maker shops launched
- 4.9☆ merchant satisfaction
Vermeil
“Design tokens with a gold standard — every value carries its audit trail to the build.”
- 3 contrast regressions caught
- 260 stars
- 2 design systems migrated
Auberge
“Hospitality websites that feel like check-in — serene, sunlit, unhurried.”
- 5 boutique-hotel sites
- 1.9 min median booking
- 44% direct bookings rise
Carat
“A 3D gem configurator for a jewelry house — 24 cut styles, 60 fps on mid-range phones.”
- 24 cut styles rendered
- 61% complete a build
- 2,100 configs in 3 months
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Achievements
eleven stamps
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Top 10 — National Typography Poster Contest
2023 · national contest
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2 regional design honors
Gilded client sites, 2025
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Workshop lead — Design Systems India
contrast math for designers, 2025
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GitHub Star of the Week
featured project, Sep 2025
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176 OSS PRs merged
31 first-time contributors mentored
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Paper — Interfaces: Design Systems Review
generative layout prototyping, 2024
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GitHub Trending featured 3×
across 2024
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4 npm packages published
~320k combined weekly downloads
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2 maintained crates
~1.1M downloads on crates.io
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9,800+ combined GitHub stars
across 12 repos, 2026
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Featured — FOSS India top contributors
2025
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Experience & skills
five stripsSenior Design Engineer
Garnet & Glass (luxury brand digital)
“Led the Vermeil token rollout — contrast regressions now fail the build; handed the motion system over with a 60-page playbook.”
Design Lead
Kite & Crane Studio (own studio)
“Set the studio's motion language and WCAG AA bar audited in CI; mentored the studio's first 2 junior engineers.”
Design Engineer
Garnet & Glass (contract)
“Shipped 5 boutique-hotel sites and the Carat gem configurator — 61% of users complete a build.”
Freelance Web Engineer
Quarry & Quill (design studio)
“Delivered 6 client sites end-to-end, each with a written performance budget — 5 of 6 held it.”
Open Source Maintainer
Independent
“Maintains 12 repos — flagships Inkstone and Vellum; 176 community PRs merged, 31 mentees to merge.”
Languages
TypeScript94
Python93
C++72
Rust84
Go78
SQL88
AI / ML
PyTorch86
ONNX Runtime84
evaluation harnesses90
retrieval systems88
LLM orchestration85
edge inference84
Web / Creative
React93
Next.js88
Canvas 2D90
Three.js85
WebGL80
CSS motion94
Systems / Cloud
Docker86
Kubernetes78
PostgreSQL90
Redis84
AWS82
Linux88
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Ratings
gold foil
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Contributions
open source- 176 PRs merged across 12 repos
- 4 npm packages — ~320k weekly downloads
- 2 maintained crates — 1.1M downloads
- 31 contributors mentored to first merged PR
- 46 projects shipped end-to-end
- 21 client products delivered
OSS footprints: GitHub · crates.io · npm (4 published packages, ~320k weekly downloads)
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Contact
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