Shray Shrotriya

One company, every surface

Quaza Inc. is my commerce company: I started it, I run it, and it was profitable in its first half. It is also the clearest way to show what I can build, because everything it runs on is mine, and the best parts are running live further down this page.

The store

quazacollect.com

A storefront I rebuilt section by section until every surface was mine to change. Pushing a branch is the deploy, and nothing ships without a review pass that is paid to disagree with me.

The app

Native iOS, written alone

Four releases in the first 24 days, and a design language that is the store's own, not a template's. Hand-written networking, no vendor SDKs, nothing between the customer and the shelf.

One truth

The app and the site cannot disagree

Both read the same backend I wrote. A price in the app is the price on the site, always, because there is exactly one place a number can come from. That was a constraint I set on day one, and it has held through every release.

one backend · one price

The machine

It works while I sleep

Behind the shop runs a machine I assembled: agents working under written rules, a gate that decides what ships, and a local model trained on the store's own writing. Twelve scheduled jobs fire whether I am at the keyboard or not.

The studio, in its own voice

My design practice, and the site I built to carry it: a single long page under a hand-written WebGL globe, with a sustained metaphor carried through every line of the copy. No component library and no template. Every element on the page was drawn for it.

It is the cool counterpart to the warm work: where the church site below welcomes, this one performs. Holding two design languages at once without letting either leak is most of what design work is.

Open the site

The studio speaks in orbit lines. The sky is a habit by now.

The turnaround

Before Quaza there was ATR Sports, a sports-card retailer whose online sales had been flat for three years. I rebuilt the store from scratch and ran the online side alone, part-time, while employed full-time.

The number I am proudest of in that year is not the 515%. It is the month it took to get a yes. I recommended moving the store onto a much more expensive platform, and the resistance was not technical: it was cost, and underneath the cost it was timing. The owner did not disagree that the platform was better. They did not know when it would be worth paying for.

So I showed them the month. Above a certain volume the transaction-fee saving offsets the subscription, and that turns the question from whether to upgrade into which month the crossover falls in. The recommendation arrived from someone who had already done the work, and they went live the following month. The year closed with online sales up 515% and company sales up 82%, from the store's own dashboards.

Everything else on this page is something I made. This is the other half of the job: getting a decision made by somebody whose money it was.

Between the big ones

Built at no charge

reachcommunitychurch.ca

A site for a church I attend, warm where the rest of my work runs cool, because the audience is a congregation and the design brief follows the reader.

Open the site

Open source

readonly-agent

The agent guard from the machine above, published as a standalone project. Deny by default, 61 tests, and you can run all of them with no API key.

{ "tool": "Write",
  "input": { "file_path": "/home/notes.md" } }

DENIED
rule: write tools are not on the list

github.com/shraygh

The craft, checked

This page audits its own colours

The table below is not typed out. It reads this page's stylesheet in your browser, right now, and measures every ink against the lightest surface it is painted on.

Contrast audit, measured in this browser

Ink	Token	Used for	Measured on	Ratio	WCAG AA
Not measured yet. Every value in this table is read out of this page in the browser, so there is nothing to print before it loads.

The audit runs in the browser, because it reads the computed value of every token out of this page for itself.

Eight shapes, one form

The form travels with you. It names where you are, its bezel fills as you move, and it moves through eight shapes I actually spend time on. Point at one.

• 01 Aperture, wide open A DSLR, and a drone when the shot needs altitude. Photography taught me the thing I use most at work: change one variable, measure the result.
• 02 Saturn, edge on The first thing I pointed a telescope at. Once you have seen the rings with your own eyes, second-hand wonder stops being enough.
• 03 Crown I open watches. On one build I replaced the plastic case with machined metal, because the movement deserved better than the shell it shipped in.
• 04 Saucer UFOs, unironically. Not as belief but as a question about evidence: what would actually count, and who gets to decide.
• 05 Arch, Rome I have stood under them. Roman and Renaissance history is the longest record of people solving hard problems with worse tools than ours.
• 06 Cross Faith, and a church I go to and built a website for. It is in the builds above because it is real work.
• 07 Candlestick Markets. Same discipline as reading my own numbers: separate the signal from the story people tell about it.
• 08 Star, through the eyepiece A telescope, and the reason space travel holds my attention. Light that left long ago and arrives calibrated.