Akash Hamirwasia

Akash Hamirwasia

Akash is a frontend engineer at ElevenLabs who loves building innovative products on the web with great user experiences. He is currently building his video creation product – Slant it and also maintains various open-source projects like Blaze, Vyaakaran, etc. His recent fascination has been creating highly dynamic user interfaces and WebGL. Akash is always open to talk about engineering, UI design and building great products.
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Summit US 2025React Summit US 2025
Upcoming
Lessons From Adopting React Compiler
React Compiler has been around for a while, but how does it hold up in real-world projects? In this talk, I’ll share my experience adopting React Compiler in my product slantit.app, the practical challenges I ran into, and how I debugged and worked around them. I’ll also walk through the measurable impact it had, and what you should know before using it in your own projects.
Pushing the Limits of Video Encoding in Browsers With WebCodecs
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
25 min
Pushing the Limits of Video Encoding in Browsers With WebCodecs
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High quality video encoding in browsers have traditionally been slow, low-quality and did not allow much customisation. This is because browsers never had a native way to encode videos leveraging hardware acceleration. In this talk, I’ll be going over the secrets of creating high-quality videos in-browsers efficiently with the power of WebCodecs and WebAssembly. From video containers to muxing, audio and beyond, this talk will give you everything you need to render your videos in browsers today!