Entrepreneur, software designer & fascinated by space

I’m Kathan Shah — an entrepreneur and software designer who does whatever it takes to turn ideas into reality. I love taking on problems that look too big, winning against the odds, and using what I build to fund the people and causes I care about. One day, that drive is going to take me to space.

Crafting a design system for a multiplanetary future

Most companies try to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to visual design, but for Planetaria we needed to create a brand that would still inspire us 100 years from now when humanity has spread across our entire solar system.

Introducing Animaginary: High performance web animations

When you’re building a website for a company as ambitious as Planetaria, you need to make an impression. I wanted people to visit our website and see animations that looked more realistic than reality itself.

Rewriting the cosmOS kernel in Rust

When we released the first version of cosmOS last year, it was written in Go. Go is a wonderful programming language, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an article on the front page of Hacker News about rewriting some important tool in Go and I see articles on there about rewriting things in Rust every single week.

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Work

  1. Company
    Stocky Pro
    Role
    Founder & MD
    Date
  2. Company
    SPURGE RENTALS
    Role
    Founder & MD
    Date
  3. Company
    Tully
    Role
    Built
    Date
  4. Company
    Cat Technologies
    Role
    Founder
    Date
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