PORTFOLIO — 2026

GARVIT
PANDIA

Design engineer building interfaces that stay legible through the glass. Design systems with contrast math built in; handoff tools that end the guessing.

01 / About

Legible at every layer of glass

Design systems, accessibility, and interfaces that keep their promises.

I'm Garvit — a design engineer who builds interfaces that stay legible at every layer of glass. My work sits where design systems meet accessibility: tokenized blur and depth, contrast math that holds WCAG AA by construction, and handoff tools that end the guessing. I go end-to-end — from Figma tokens to shipped TypeScript — and every audit I write traces an issue to a root cause, not a symptom.

Open to design-engineering and design-systems work where the bar is legibility and the deliverable ships.

DegreeB.Des Creative Technology · GPA 3.6/4.0
LocationDehradun, Uttarakhand · India
Emailgarvit9829@gmail.com
FocusDesign systems · Accessibility · Handoff
AvailableContracts & full-time — 2026

02 / Projects

Shipped, not staged

Two design-engineering builds — one system that holds AA, one handoff tool that settles.

Glass surface tokens on a dark screen — Refraction design system

2025 · Design Systems

Refraction — legible glass

  • Tokenized blur and depth with contrast math built in — every surface passes WCAG AA by construction.
  • 60+ components documented with dark, light, and translucent states.
  • Adopted by 3 product teams; accessibility audit findings on surfaces dropped 71%.
TypeScriptCSSFigmaWCAG AADesign Systems
view on github →
Design specs pinned to a canvas — Harbor handoff tool

2024 · Design Tooling

Harbor — no more guessing

  • Live component specs pinned to a design canvas — engineers open one URL instead of six tools.
  • 41% faster average handoff cycle across 12 studio projects.
  • 720 stars; used by 4 agencies and 2 in-house teams.
TypeScriptReactWebSocketFigmaDesign Handoff
view on github →

03 / Skills

The stack I build with

The languages, frameworks and platforms behind legible, shippable interfaces.

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonRustGoSQLHTML/CSS

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsThree.jsWebGLCanvas 2DCSS MotionFigmaDesign Systems

Tools & Platforms

PostgreSQLDockerKubernetesRedisAWSTerraformNixgRPCLinuxD3PandasObservabilityETL

Soft Skills

Technical WritingMentoringProject ScopingPublic SpeakingIncident Response

04 / Education

The path so far

Aug 2021 — May 2025 DONE

B.Des in Creative Technology (CS minor)

Northern Arc Institute of Design & Technology · Dehradun · GPA 3.6/4.0

Jun 2022 — Dec 2024

Freelance Web Engineer — Quarry & Quill

6 client sites shipped end-to-end, each with a written performance budget

Feb 2025 — Nov 2025

Design Engineer — Garnet & Glass

5 boutique-hotel sites; booking completion 1.9 min median

Jan 2025 — present

Design Lead — Kite & Crane Studio

WCAG AA bar across all client work, audited in CI

05 / Proof

Certificates & achievements

Certificates

AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS
2024
Meta Front-End Developer
Meta
2021
Adobe Certified Professional — Visual Design
Adobe
2023
MongoDB Associate Developer
MongoDB
2023
DeepLearning.AI — Machine Learning Specialization
DeepLearning.AI
2021

Achievements

★★★★

Peer-reviewed paper — layout for screen readers

Interfaces: Design Systems Review · 2024

★★★★

2 regional design honors

Gilded client sites · 2025

06 / Contact

Let's build something

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