The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone at dusk, the river running through steep pale cliffs.

Gayatri Sabne

Design engineer. I design the product and ship the code.

Hi there!

I design and ship full-stack products. Seven years as a software engineer, now working as a design engineer: the same person owns the Figma file and the pull request. Two things I built recently, below.

ember.

Every Forest Service cabin on Recreation.gov, checked daily. When one opens up for your dates, you’re the first to know.

Open ember →GitHub →
Role
Timeline
May to September 2026
Team
Just me
Design
Research, Figma system, every screen
Build
App, daily checker, email, deploy
Stack
Framework
Next.js 16 on Vercel
Data
Supabase: Postgres, Google auth, RLS
Email
Resend, DMARC-verified domain
Maps
Mapbox, 519 pins from RIDB
Styling
Tailwind v4, locked type scale
Ember's cabin page for Firemile Butte Lookout in Mt Hood National Forest, showing four nights selected on the availability calendar and a button to set up an alert.

How it works

  1. 01

    WATCH

    Granite Park Chalet

    Glacier National Park

    WATCHING · JUL 12

  2. 02

    OPEN

    Granite Park Chalet

    Glacier National Park

    2 NIGHTS · JUL 12

  3. 03

    BOOKED

    Granite Park Chalet

    Glacier National Park

    2 NIGHTS · JUL 12

Two phones running Sol: the home screen with a week of sunrises and today's pitch-matching lesson, and a completed exercise reading in tune at A3, 220 Hz.

Sol

A calm instrument for your ear. Sing the note and the sun rises to meet it. Real-time pitch detection in the browser, and nothing leaves your device.

GitHub →
Role

July 2026, built in two days

timeline

Just me

team

Figma system first, then the app

design

Pitch detection, the tuner, sing-along

build

Stack

Next.js 16, Tailwind v4

framework

Web Audio API, pitchy for detection

audio

Tone.js with sampled piano

synth

Figma tokens, then code

design

Sing a C, and bring the sun up.

Uses your microphone after you tap. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.

About

Seven years as a software engineer, most of it on frontend at startups, then a deliberate move into product design. I stayed close to the code on purpose: the work I like is the stretch between a Figma frame and a merged pull request, where most of the real decisions get made.

Ember and Sol are both mine end to end: research, design system, the app, the deploy. The case studies are written as decisions and tradeoffs, because that is what I would want to read.

What I’m looking for: a design engineering or product design role on a small team that ships, where owning both halves is an asset rather than a category error.

Off the clock I photograph mountains. The photograph at the top of this page is one of mine.

Say hi

email
gayatrisabne05@gmail.com
github
github.com/gayatrisss

Designed in Figma, built with Next.js 16 and Tailwind v4, deployed on Vercel. Unbounded + Rethink Sans.

© 2026 Gayatri Sabne