About
About
Who builds and maintains akshara.dev — background, focus areas, and how this site is put together.
Akshara Hegde
I'm Akshara Hegde, a full-stack engineer and open-source contributor. I build products, developer tools, and AI-powered apps, mostly in public so the bugs have witnesses. Outside of shipping code, I write short stories and essays about systems, productivity, and why the thing that should've taken an hour took a week.
This site, akshara.dev, is my personal portfolio, blog, and changelog. It's also a free, open-source Nuxt template — anyone can fork it and run their own content-driven portfolio on top of Nuxt Content, Nuxt Studio, and Nuxt UI.
What I work on
- Developer tools — CLIs, scrapers, and utilities like Crawlboy and ThreatPkg, built to solve problems I ran into myself.
- Open source — maintaining and contributing to projects across the Nuxt, Vue, and Python ecosystems. See Projects for the full list.
- Writing — implementation notes, retrospectives, and essays on the blog, syndicated to Ink.
- AI-native workflows — Claude Skills, MCP, and agent tooling, documented on the Resources page.
How this site is built
The stack is Nuxt 4, Nuxt Content, Nuxt UI, and Tailwind CSS, deployed as a static/edge-rendered site. Design tokens and UI guidelines are published as a machine-readable DESIGN.md, and the site exposes an llms.txt so AI agents can understand what it is and when to use it without scraping the whole thing.
Get in touch
The fastest way to reach me is listed on the Contact page — email, a booking link, and social profiles. I'm generally open to collaborating on open-source projects, technical writing, and interesting engineering problems.