Arkadeep Chakraborty

Associate Founder at Indrav to the end of 2025, and a Cyber Security undergrad. Seven years of design pointed at interfaces.

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Selected work

Quick Spend

Flutter
SQLite
ML Kit OCR
Android

Datelize

An AI date scout that takes a mood rather than a filter. You type a city and a sentence, and it answers with three real places and a line on why each one fits. Built on open map data and a language model that ranks but never invents, so it cannot return a café that does not exist. Runs at zero API cost.

FastAPI
Streamlit
Llama 3.3 70B
OpenStreetMap

Other Works

Design and front-end

NITI

A therapy booking platform for Indrav. Browse therapists, read a profile, book a session; hand-written front end against an Express and MongoDB API, with Google sign-in and a therapist dashboard behind it.

Map the flows before the pixels.

Build the component system once.

Ship it, then watch what breaks.

Arkadeep Chakraborty

Background

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Jun 2018 2026

Editor

Self-employed

Edited scripts, captions, and supporting content to enhance clarity, consistency, and narrative flow.
Collaborated with authors and creators to refine structure and themes.
Worked with the editor-in-chief to shape content direction and special features.
Partnered with graphic, photo, and video teams to produce cohesive releases.
Coordinated with designers to align text, timing, and visuals.
Ensured timely delivery by syncing with publishing and production teams.
Maintained an archive of published materials for quality control and reference.

Mar 2019 2026

Freelance Graphic Designer

Self-employed

Built brand identities through logos, brochures, business cards, and digital assets.
Designed graphics, layouts, and visuals for products, companies, and websites.
Created high-performing social media creatives to boost online presence.
Managed multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
Edited photographs for web banners and social platforms to maximise visual impact.
Presented design concepts and iterated with clients and managers.

Jun 2020 2026

Video Editor / Cinematographer

Self-employed

Captured and edited high-quality footage for film, reels, and video projects.
Collaborated with directors and clients on visual storytelling aligned with project goals.
Built shot lists and storyboards; executed efficient shoots.
Operated camera equipment and managed lighting setups to elevate scene aesthetics.
Edited and assembled raw footage into tight, compelling final cuts.
Owned post-production pipelines to deliver cohesive, on-time outputs.

Jun 2020 2026

Photographer

Self-employed

Delivered high-quality images for events, portraits, and creative projects.
Developed shoot concepts based on client needs and creative direction.
Managed client communication to ensure precise creative alignment.
Conducted on-site shoots in diverse locations and conditions.
Edited photos in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom for optimal presentation.

Nov 2024 Dec 2025

Marketer, then UI/UX Designer, then Associate Founder

Indrav Pvt. Ltd.

Created wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs using industry-standard tools.
Designed intuitive user interfaces for web and mobile applications.
Built interactive prototypes for apps and websites.
Collaborated with developers to implement consistent, usable design solutions.
Developed user personas and journey maps to guide design decisions.
Researched current UI/UX trends, tools, and techniques.

Oct 2025 Mar 2026

Assistant Cinematographer / Video Editor

SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.

Worked with the band HooliGaanism.
Assisted the DOP on set and prepped the camera builds.
Lit and framed performance sequences across studio and location shoots.
Pulled focus and handled camera support and rigging through long shooting days.
Cut the performance footage and the behind-the-scenes.
Finished the sequences.

Apr 2026 Aug 2026

Video Editor / Visual Content Creator

Meerabella, Fizzy Clothing LLP

Joined as a video editor and visual content creator.
Shot stills and video for the brand.
Cut the footage into the finished videos.
Appeared on camera as a creator for the brand.

Toolkit

Editor

VS Code
Antigravity
Claude Code

Build

Flutter
React
Node.js
Three.js

Data

MongoDB
Postman

Languages

HTML
CSS
Python

UI/UX design
Product design
App development
Front-end
Design systems
Graphic design
Brand identity
Cyber security

In numbers

counted, not estimated

3Products3 entries under Selected work
8Disciplineslisted on this track
12Kitbodies, lenses, lights and software named in the toolkit

What this covers

UI/UX design
Product design
App development
Front-end
Design systems
Graphic design
Brand identity
Cyber security

Questions

7 answered

What is delivered on a build?

The interface and the app around it: UI and UX design, product design, and the front-end built in Flutter or React with Node.js and MongoDB behind it. The order is always the same -- map the flows, build the component system once, ship, then watch what breaks.

What does Arkadeep Chakraborty build?

Interfaces and the apps around them: UI and UX design, product design, and app development. Built with Flutter, React, Node.js and Three.js, with MongoDB behind them. Seven years of graphic design pointed at screens rather than at print.

What is his background in design and code?

Associate Founder at Indrav to the end of 2025, and a Cyber Security undergraduate at The Heritage Academy. The design years supplied the grid, the security coursework supplied the threat model, and interfaces are where both stop being theory.

Where is Arkadeep Chakraborty based?

Kolkata, West Bengal, in India. Most of the photography is made within walking distance of home, and the film and design work runs from the same city. Enquiries arrive by email at hello@arkadeepchakraborty.com or through the forms on this site.

How much does a project cost?

There is no rate card. Pricing is quoted per project against the scope, because a one-day product shoot and a three-day wedding are not the same job. The freelance form asks for the scope, the dates and an estimated budget, and a quote comes back against those.

How long does a project take?

It is quoted with the price rather than fixed in advance. Send the scope and the dates you need through the freelance form and the reply covers availability, an estimated timeline and pricing together, so you are not agreeing to one before knowing the others.

How do you hire Arkadeep Chakraborty?

Two ways, both on every page. Quick hire opens a message already addressed to hello@arkadeepchakraborty.com, for anyone who has the brief in a document already. Open for work opens a longer form, one for a job offer and one for a freelance gig.

Answers

25 on devops

Can you build a large front-end without a framework?Yes, and the thread was clear about what you take on when you do: reactivity, routing and state become yours to build and to keep working.
Do homepage carousels actually work?Almost every answer said no, from people who had tested them. One explains exactly whose problem a carousel really solves.
Is it worth keeping your code private?A junior developer kept every repository private in case classmates stole the work. The thread included someone it had actually happened to.
If singletons are bad, what should you use?The pattern does two things at once, and you almost always want only one of them. Separating the two is the whole of the answer.
Is a dark theme better for your eyes?Research mostly favours dark text on a light background. The more useful answer in the thread is that it depends on the room you are sitting in.
Learning front-end when it feels over-engineeredSomeone with backend experience found modern front-end overwhelming. The thread's advice was about method rather than tools, which is why it survived.
Handling UX when scrolling to anchors at the bottom of a pageSolutions from a UX discussion on how to handle anchor links near the bottom of a web page that cannot scroll to the top of the viewport.
Should a delete button be red or green?Red for danger or green for yes? The highest-voted answer rejects the question, and a better one exists that removes the dialogue entirely.
Should a toggle show its state or its action?Play/Pause shows what will happen. A shuffle button shows what is happening. The thread found the rule that separates the two.
Should error messages apologise?Most of the thread said yes, with a reason worth keeping. One answer disagreed sharply, and a third argued the message should not have existed.
Should OK come before or after Cancel?There is no universally right order: the platforms settled on different ones. The answer is to follow the platform rather than your instinct.
What actually improves your programming?The highest-voted answers have almost nothing to do with languages or tools, and two of them are about reading rather than writing.
What to do with a codebase you inheritedTwo hundred thousand lines you did not write and cannot read. The first steps are not about the code, and the thread is emphatic about the order.
What to say when asked for an estimateThe classic answer is four words long. The thread also contains the best line anyone has produced for deflecting a corridor estimate.
Where did the one-return rule come from?A rule still taught as style was originally about assembly language and manual cleanup. Both of the problems it solved have since been solved elsewhere.
Why is 80 characters the line limit?The number comes from a punched card format standardised in 1928. It survived the punched card for a reason that has nothing to do with punched cards.
Why designers and developers clash, and what helpsA thread collected the specific friction points between design and engineering, the fixes people had actually seen work, and two who see no tension at all.
Why is global state such a problem?Not style, and not purity. It removes the property that lets you reason about a function from its inputs, and it takes testability with it.
Why interfaces stopped being glossyGradients and reflections gave way to flat surfaces. Partly fashion, but the thread named a functional reason the gloss had stopped doing its job.
Why do payment forms ask for the card type?The card number already says whether it is a Visa. The field survives for reasons that are partly historical and partly still valid.
Why people press Clear more than onceEverybody hits the calculator clear button several times. The thread traced the habit to a genuine interface failure that still shows up today.
Why progress bars animate backwardsThe stripes inside a loading bar move against the direction of travel. It is deliberate, and the thread cites a study on how much faster it feels.
Why do large software projects run late?The best answer says the comparison is wrong: other industries fail too, and the phase we call building is not building at all.
Why is the mouse cursor tilted?The angle is not a style choice. It comes from the pixel budget of the screens it was drawn on, and two other reasons kept it there.
Yes/No or OK/Cancel on a dialogue?The top answer rejects both. Use a verb, because nobody reads the message above the buttons and a verb still makes sense when they do not.

All answers, across the four practices

Education and off-duty

BSc. Cyber Security

The Heritage Academy

2nd year, 3rd semester, in progress

High School Diploma

Nava Nalanda Group Of Schools

Completed July 2024, complete

GuitarAcoustic and electric
SingingAnd the occasional audition
MarketsEquity funds, SIPs, compounding
DogsNon-negotiable

Systemsthat ship

Quick Spend

Datelize

NITI

Editor

Freelance Graphic Designer

Video Editor / Cinematographer

Photographer

Marketer, then UI/UX Designer, then Associate Founder

Assistant Cinematographer / Video Editor

Video Editor / Visual Content Creator

What is delivered on a build?

What does Arkadeep Chakraborty build?

What is his background in design and code?

Where is Arkadeep Chakraborty based?

How much does a project cost?

How long does a project take?

How do you hire Arkadeep Chakraborty?

BSc. Cyber Security

High School Diploma