About / Who runs the studio
A small studio with public proof.
CraftLayer Studio is a founder-led software studio. There is no large team behind this page: the studio is run by its founder, works in the open, and links every claim to evidence you can check.
Founder
Shaswat Raj
Software engineer based in India. Shaswat founded CraftLayer Studio and runs it day to day: scoping projects, designing interfaces and writing the code.
To be transparent: he is also currently a B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering student at BIT Mesra. Studio work is planned around that, and timelines are agreed honestly up front.
- Role
- Founder and engineer
- Based in
- India
- Studies
- B.Tech CSE, BIT Mesra (current)
- sh20raj(opens in new tab)
How the studio works
Small, founder-led and engineering-first
Founder-led
The studio is run by its founder, who scopes, designs and writes the code. You talk to the person doing the work, not an account manager.
Small on purpose
We take on a limited number of projects at a time. When a project needs a specialist skill we do not have, we say so before starting.
Engineering-first
Typed code, automated checks, accessible markup and documented decisions. The same standards as our public repositories.
Open source
Upstream contributions
Merged changes to widely used open-source projects. Each links to the public pull request or commit.
- preactjs/preact #5331 (merged): allow the list attribute on every valid input type(opens in new tab)
- codex-team/editor.js #3040 (merged): hide "Convert to" when there is nothing to convert to(opens in new tab)
- google-gemini/gemini-cli #20778 (merged): thread AbortSignal to chat compression requests(opens in new tab)
Next step
Have an idea worth building?
Tell us what you are working on. You will hear back from the founder directly, usually with questions before a quote.