Aryan S Rao

• Architected responsive web applications using React and Node.js, reducing page load time by 40%
• Designed UI/UX in Figma and translated to production code, achieving 98% design-to-code fidelity
• Delivered 15+ features across 3 major product releases in agile sprints

• Optimized website achieving 95+ Lighthouse scores with load time under 2 seconds

A desktop browser built from scratch: Rust + Chromium Embedded Framework, with on-device AI phishing detection (ONNX, no cloud), Tor integration, fingerprint resistance, an encrypted vault, and a built-in torrent and media downloader. Privacy is the default, not a toggle. Currently in development.

Self-hostable collaborative whiteboard — live drawing, cursors and chat over WebSockets. Rust (Axum) backend with Tokio broadcast channels, vanilla-JS canvas frontend, deploys as a single binary.

A hobby OS kernel written from scratch in Rust for x86_64: custom filesystem (CottonFS), graphical desktop with window management, preemptive scheduler, TCP/IP stack, and a built-in web browser that loads real sites over HTTPS with in-kernel TLS 1.3.

Serverless random video chat over WebRTC — video, audio and text travel directly between browsers. Matchmaking without a matchmaking server, via a fixed-slot PeerJS lobby. The whole app is one HTML file.

Unofficial VS Code extension putting DeepSeek in your editor — fully local inference via Ollama, so your code never leaves your machine. Thousands of installs on the VS Code Marketplace.