Shardul Chauhan

Design engineer and product designer. I design the thing, then I build it — interface, motion, front end, deployment.

Gurugram, India Open to remote chauhanpsydul@gmail.com khalpatinc.com linkedin.com/in/shardulogy
Summary

Trained in textile design at NIFT, then taught myself to code so I could prototype in a browser instead of handing work off. Over six months I took fifteen working prototypes from empty file to live URL — all public, all interactive.

The domain knowledge is the point. I know what a loom will refuse to weave, so I build tools that refuse it too.

Experience

Design Engineer

Khalpat Inc., Gurugram — independent studio Dec 2025 — present
  • Designed and shipped fifteen live web products in six months, covering research, interface design, front end, 3D and deployment.
  • Built khalpatinc.com as three navigable worlds rather than a project list. Next.js 15, React 19, React Three Fiber, custom GLSL, GSAP, Matter.js.
  • Published the studio design system alongside it as an operable twelve-section document with four reading layers.
  • Delivered brand identity and art direction for musician Akash Raturi as a client engagement — mark through release artwork, working to his brief, his feedback and his release dates.
  • Treat load weight as a design decision: cut one product from 87 KB to 24 KB of CSS, another from 447 KB to 337 KB gzipped.

Textile & Menswear Designer

Place The Dot — graduation project, NIFT
  • Designed print, surface technique and material direction across two menswear collections that reached production.

AI Evaluation Specialist

Alignerr and Mindrift — contract 2025 — present
  • Subject matter expert reviewing and correcting model output on design, front-end and reasoning tasks against written rubrics.
Selected work

Weave Compiler

Browser-based textile CAD
React 19, Vite, Three.js, GLSL — no backend
  • Compiles a pattern image into a manufacturing-ready weaving draft using boolean matrix algebra, and reverse-compiles a painted drawdown back into threading and lifting plans.
  • Exports WIF 1.1 and PDF tech packs, handles matrices from 2×2 to 512×512, ships under 400 KB gzipped with no server.

Loom OS

Fashion and textile design system for the browser
Five modules, static hosting, no API keys
  • The product thesis is the validation layer: a seam integrity checker, a mirror tile fixer, and a cover factor gate that refuses to generate a fabric past the jamming limit. The software says no, which is what a factory would do.

Blazon

Jacquard design study, eleven-section interactive case study
  • My response to a live brief from a Delhi fashion label: motifs, composition studies, jacquard weave structures and loom specifications across four production methods.
  • Published as a specification with point paper dimensions and thread counts, not a moodboard.

Vandal.exe

First-person graffiti engine
Vanilla JavaScript, Three.js, single HTML file, no build step
  • Real-time decal projection onto arbitrary geometry, procedural spray dispersion and drip simulation, pointer-lock movement.
Capabilities
Design

Interface and interaction design, design systems, typography, art direction, brand identity, motion design, information architecture, user flows, prototyping in code, case study writing.

Engineering

React 19, Next.js 15 App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind, Three.js and React Three Fiber, custom GLSL shaders, WebGPU and TSL compute, GSAP, Lenis, Zustand, Web Audio API, Matter.js, Vercel, Cloudflare R2, Upstash Redis.

Domain

Woven and jacquard structure, point paper and loom specification, WIF export, pattern making and grading, fabric GSM and anisotropy, tech packs, print and surface design.

Practice

Solo zero-to-one delivery, AI-assisted development verified with test harnesses rather than trusted, performance budgeting.

Education
B.Des Textile Design National Institute of Fashion Technology
Certified Multidisciplinary Design Engineer micro1