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Assembling the product
281 engineered parts, one idea underneath…
Independent web dev agency · senior engineer @ Stripe

basetwo.dev Web apps for founders.

The car below is what every finished product looks like: hundreds of engineered parts wrapped around one idea. Scroll, and I'll take it apart layer by layer — exactly how I build websites, dashboards and MVPs, with the standards of a senior Stripe engineer.

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The finished product

Every product hides the story of how it was made.

Why a car? Because it's one of the most engineered things around — hundreds of parts working together for a single idea. Your product might process payments or schedule deliveries; the layers are the same. Let's peel them back.

01Ship & operate

Shipping is a habit, not an event.

Products improve in production, not in planning docs. CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, observability — I deploy early, measure everything, and iterate every week.

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02Interface & experience

Design is how it works.

The surface your users touch should feel inevitable. I build fast, accessible frontends — and the design systems and APIs behind them.

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03The build

Code you can bet the company on.

Typed, tested, reviewed — backends and APIs that don't surprise you at 2am, written by someone who ships payment-grade code for a living.

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04Architecture & data

Ideas become systems.

The unglamorous layer that decides everything: data models, pipelines and infra that turn raw events into product momentum — at any scale.

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00 · The idea

Strip everything away, and a product is just one stubborn idea, glowing.

Every build starts here — a sketch, a hunch, a problem that won't leave you alone. Bring me that. I'll engineer the other 280 parts.

Reassembly

From idea to launch, in record time.

Idea → architecture → build → design → ship. You've seen the layers. Now imagine them assembled around your idea.

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Behind basetwo

basetwo.dev is my independent web dev agency. I'm Akhil, a senior software engineer at Stripe, where software moves money and "mostly works" is not a phrase. I bring that same engineering standard to your product — without the headcount.

TypeScriptJavaScript ReactNode.js RubyPython GoPostgres Apache SparkTrino PinotAirflow HadoopTemporal Workflows CI/CD & DevOpsAWS Payments & Stripe APIsLLM integrations LLM classifiersAgent supervisors Agentic workflowsAgentic support RAG pipelinesLLM evalsTool use & MCP
Got an idea?

Let's build your next
web product.

One new project slot opens each month. Grab a time below and let's talk — or tell me what you're building and I'll reply within 24 hours.

Prefer email? akhil@basetwo.dev