The Origin Story

Who Actually Is This Guy?

Developer, Medical Student, Music Composer & Graphic Designer — basically the kind of person who never learned to pick one thing and stick with it. Fortunately, that worked out.

Hey, I'm Shushank

I'm a multi-disciplinary creator based in India. By day I'm a medical student learning the intricacies of the human body. By night I'm a developer shipping privacy-first web tools. Somewhere in between, I'm composing music and designing things.

My core belief: the best digital products respect their users. That means no unnecessary data collection, no dark patterns, no "we value your privacy" while doing the opposite. Just clean, functional, honest software.

I genuinely enjoy the creative friction between disciplines. The systematic thinking I use in medicine makes me a better debugger. The aesthetic sense from design makes everything I build look less like it was assembled by someone who just discovered CSS. And music? Music just keeps me sane.

See My Work Say Hello

The Journey (Abridged)

Some things happened. Here's the summary.

2024 — Present

Independent Music Artist

Released original compositions on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and 150+ platforms globally. Produced, mixed, and mastered independently. The "independently" part is either admirable or concerning — still figuring that out.

2024 — Present

Launched PDF Tools Suite

Built and shipped pdf.shushank.in — a fully client-side PDF utility platform. No uploads, no servers, no privacy nightmares. Just fast, private, and stupidly useful.

2023 — Present

MBBS — Medical Studies

Pursuing a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. Learning what happens inside the human body — turns out it's more complex than a JavaScript runtime error, though debugging both involves similar levels of despair.

2021 — Present

Self-Taught Developer & Designer

Started with "what even is HTML" and ended up building production-grade web tools. The journey involved a lot of Stack Overflow, a few identity crises, and eventually shipping things that actually work.

Earlier

Music & Art — The Beginning

Grew up fascinated by music theory, visual art, and the way design communicates without words. These turned out to be the most useful skills I never formally studied.

Privacy by Default

I build tools where data never leaves the user's device. Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation. (Yes, I practice what I preach.)

Performance Over Bloat

No framework when vanilla works better. Fast load times are a form of respect. Also, nobody wants to stare at a spinner on a portfolio site.

Obsessive Craft

Spacing, typography, motion, color — users feel these things even when they can't articulate them. I notice when they're off, so I fix them. Probably at 1 AM.

Fun Facts (That Are Actually Fun)

I composed music before I wrote my first line of code. The code came out more structured.
I've memorized the brachial plexus. I still forget to commit before making sweeping refactors.
Best code output: midnight–3 AM. Medical studies output: also midnight–3 AM. Sleep is overrated, apparently.
I run Cloudflare WARP and manually audit my own apps for data leaks. Occupational hazard of actually caring about privacy.