Deepak Mardi
Deepak Mardi is co-founder and a full-stack engineer at Pruning Labs, the Kolkata-based software engineering studio, and a graduate of IIT Kharagpur, working front-end heavy and owning interface architecture across the studio's work: the operator consoles, exception queues, and customer-facing surfaces, along with the accessibility and Core Web Vitals budgets they are held to.
A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, Deepak co-founded Pruning Labs and builds the part of every system people actually touch. In the studio's work that is rarely a marketing page - it is the operator console where an exception queue gets worked, the dashboard a supervising clinician reads, the internal tool that replaces a spreadsheet.
Those interfaces have a harder brief than most front-end work. They are used all day by people who know the domain better than we do, under time pressure, sometimes on bad connections or shop-floor hardware. Density matters more than polish, keyboard paths matter more than animation, and an interface that hides state is worse than one that looks plain.
Deepak also owns the performance budgets. Every content page on this site is server-rendered with effectively no client JavaScript because that line gets held on every review.
What Deepak works on
- Operator consoles and internal tools. Dense, keyboard-navigable interfaces for the people working exceptions all day - the surface that decides whether an automation actually gets used.
- Front-end architecture. Server components by default, client JavaScript only where interaction requires it, and component structure the next engineer can navigate.
- Performance and accessibility budgets. Core Web Vitals enforced in the pipeline rather than fixed in a sprint, and semantic markup that serves screen readers and agentic parsers identically.
Areas of depth
- React and Next.js architecture
- TypeScript
- Server components and rendering strategy
- Design systems and component architecture
- Web accessibility
- Core Web Vitals and INP optimisation
- Operator console and internal tool design
- API integration and client data fetching
Elsewhere
- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Working with the studio starts with a thirty-minute call. The rest of the team is on the team page.