A quieter kind of product-minded engineer
Based out of Bengaluru, IndiaEngineering @ MakeMyTrip | Ex-PwC, Zolo

I usually build from curiosity, frustration, or admiration.

Aadarsh Srivastava

I'm a frontend engineer at MakeMyTrip with 5+ years across enterprise, startup, and high-scale consumer products. What keeps me interested is the human side of software: the odd workaround someone has learned to live with, the flow that almost works, or the product that feels so well thought through you want to understand how it was made.

Aadarsh Srivastava

What I care about

Software that respects the real job someone is trying to do, not just the flow we hoped they would follow.

When I am not coding

Usually football, the NBA, rock and metal, design rabbit holes, gadgets, or noticing why one tool becomes part of someone's identity and another does not.

Right now

Trying to make this site feel less like a portfolio and more like a person with a browser tab problem, a product itch, and a few strong opinions about software.

What shaped me

Years ofProduct thinking

Context over chronology

I started at PwC seeing how software shapes the way teams coordinate, decide, and get work done. At Zolo, closer to users and business constraints, I learned that a screen is rarely just a screen — it carries discovery, conversion, operations, and trust at the same time. Now at MakeMyTrip, I build travel experiences at scale across web and mobile. The thread through all of it is simple: understand the real job someone is trying to do, then make the path clearer without taking useful choices away.

  • MakeMyTrip logo

    MakeMyTrip

    1 yr 6 mo
    • Senior Software Engineer IIJan 2025 to Present
  • Zolo logo

    Zolo

    2 yr 6 mo
    • Senior Software Engineer IIApr 2024 to Dec 2024
    • Senior Software Engineer IApr 2023 to Mar 2024
    • Software Development Engineer IIJul 2022 to Mar 2023
  • PwC India logo

    PwC India

    1 yr 10 mo
    • Associate (Full Stack Developer)Sep 2020 to Jun 2022

Built from real motivation

Projects I Keep Returning To

A few projects that stayed with me because the workflow, the product question, or the person behind it kept growing.

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Thinking in public

Notes & Writing

Usually a product hunch, engineering discomfort, or mental model I wanted to make clearer.

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Reach

What I Reach For

The stack changes. The patterns I reach for tend to stay familiar.

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptPython

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTanStack StartReact Native

Backend

Node.jsFastAPIExpressConvexSupabase

UI & Styling

Tailwind CSSshadcn/ui

Tooling

ViteBunWebpackVercelGit

AI

CursorAnti-GravityChatGPTClaude

Objects with opinions

The Station

The tools I use long enough to have opinions about.

MacBook Pro 14"

M4 Max, 24GB RAM

Lenovo ThinkVision D27-30

27-inch

Kreo SwarmX

Huano Red Switches

MX Master 3

Logitech

Sony WH-1000XM4

Noise Cancelling

Diet Coke

Fuel for code