Dani Akash
Founding Engineer at BrowserOS (YC S24)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolDani Akash is a founding engineer and frontend-focused full-stack developer with 10 years of experience building user-centric products and developer tooling from Chennai, India. He specializes in modern web and mobile stacks—GraphQL, serverless and edge runtimes, Next.js, Astro, and React Native—and has a track record of shipping open-source SDKs and client libraries to bridge platforms and frameworks. As a founding engineer at multiple startups (including BrowserOS and OSlash) he designed edge-cached GraphQL federations, micro frontends and islands-style architectures to improve performance and developer experience. Dani is an active OSS contributor—his enhancements to a React Native sliding-up panel improve keyboard integration and typing robustness—reflecting a pragmatic focus on polish and DX. He also mentors and teaches, having helped students and peers transition to modern JavaScript stacks and secure reliable production deployments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science and Engineering at Jeppiaar Engineering CollegeRegular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at K.C.Sankaralinga Nadar Hr. Sec. School.
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
react-native10
ui-components10
user-interface10
editor10
prop10
visual-studio10
props10
facebook9
typescript9
typescript-types9
react9
fetch-api9
typescripts9
async-await9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
octopitus/rn-sliding-up-panel
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Draggable sliding up panel implemented in React Native https://octopitus.github.io/rn-sliding-up-panel/
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dani primarily focused on modifying the `SlidingUpPanel` component, a core UI element of the React Native library. Their work included adding and refactoring callbacks for closing the panel, updating type declarations, and integrating the panel's behavior with the keyboard to improve user experience. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the component's functionality and user interaction, as well as maintaining the project's typing standards.
reactreact-nativepanelslidingdraggable
DaniAkash/simple-drag-and-drop
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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