K. Mangalam Engineer, Designer India

Halftone, Monochrome, Vernacular.

Hi, I’m Mangalam. A designer with expertise in Illustration, Hyperrealism and Brutalist Typography. On the side I also do Photography, web development and motion animation.

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Disciplines
08
Series
26
Client sites
02
Creating since
2017

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Three things I get hired for. Pick the one that sounds like your problem.

01

Identity & Brand

A mark is where it starts, not where it ends. You leave with the system behind it — type, colour, layout rules — so everything printed after this still looks like you.

See brand work → 02

Websites & Products

Designed and built by the same person, so nothing is lost in handoff — and shipped with an admin panel, so you are not paying a developer to change a notice.

See live sites → 03

Editorial & Print

Posters, covers and layouts set for a real press — bleed, trim and ink accounted for — in English and Devanagari both.

See print work →

Recent clients

  • U.M.V. Adla
  • Sharda Palace
  • SP Services

01. Services

01 DESIGN
Identity systems, brand strategy, editorial and print. I work from the core idea outward, so the visual language still holds up three years later.
02 MOTION
Kinetic typography, title sequences and interface motion. Animation that carries meaning rather than decorating a static frame.
03 BUILD
Web Design & Development. From a bilingual school site to a twelve-module hotel CRM — designed and built by the same pair of hands, so nothing gets lost in handoff.

02. Selected Work

03 — Resume Patna, India

Currently working in

Photography

01 / 08 Street / Portrait / B&W

From engineering
to design, without
leaving the code.

A project doesn’t stop at a handoff file. I draw the idea, set the type, build the pages and ship them — so the thing that goes live is the thing that was designed, not an approximation of it.

Experience

  1. 2023 — 2024 Assistant Manager Jindal Steel & Power Control room, Steel Melting Shop. Commissioned JSPL’s first twin-strand slab caster; led 20+ engineers across shift operations.
  2. 2022 Summer Intern SAIL & EIL Locomotive maintenance at Rourkela Steel Plant, then pump process data sheets in EIL’s Rotating Equipment Division.
  3. 2017 — Now Independent Practice Design & Build Identity, editorial and poster work, photography and shipped websites for clients across India.
Design
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Lightroom
  • Figma
Motion
  • After Effects
  • Premiere Pro
  • Blender
Build
  • HTML & CSS
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • GSAP
  • Python
  • Git
AI & Tooling
  • Gemini API
  • FastAPI
  • Claude Code
  • VS Code
Practice
  • Brand identity
  • Editorial & poster
  • Photography
  • Web design & build

Available for work — 2026

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04 Software / Automation / AI 5 projects

Engineering

Before the design work there was a control room. I still build the technical side — extraction pipelines, dashboards, automation and AI tooling — and it’s the reason the web work doesn’t stop at a mockup.

2024–Now · AI Engineering

FinTabula

Financial-statement table extractor. Rebuilds multi-page balance sheets, P&Ls and cash-flow tables from PDFs into styled Excel workbooks, using pdfplumber locally or Gemini 1.5 Flash when the layout defeats it. FastAPI · pdfplumber · Gemini 2024–Now · Generative AI

WhatsApp Command Center

An AI chief of staff sitting on top of WhatsApp. Reads a live message database and turns unstructured group chatter into summaries, priority matrices and deadlines. Baileys · SQLite · Gemini 2024–Now · Logistics

SCM Mission Control

Real-time supply-chain dashboard: end-to-end route visibility, live traffic speed against free-flow, predictive delay forecasting and multi-API weather along the corridor. TomTom Traffic API · Weather APIs 2024–Now · Workflow Tools

Tools 101 Suite

A monorepo of automation built to kill repetitive work — bulk WhatsApp community management, a desktop automation widget, and file-sync utilities. Python · Node · Shell 2024 · Python & API

Telegram → Drive Sync

An asynchronous bridge between a Telegram channel and Google Drive. Concurrent downloads with smart filtering, so PDFs archive themselves without anyone touching it. Telethon · asyncio · Drive API
All engineering work →

05. Process

Four steps, one person, a date agreed at the start and held to. A brand identity runs three to four weeks; a full site, six to ten.

01 Brief Fixed scope We write down what is in and what is out before anything starts. The number I quote is the number you pay.
02 Design Designed, then built Directions, then one chosen route taken all the way. You see real layouts with your own content, not filler.
03 Build One point of contact The person who drew it is the person who builds it. No handoff, no translation loss, no third party to chase.
04 Handover Yours to run Source files, fonts and an admin panel where the content actually changes — so routine updates never come back to me.

06. FAQ

Most work is quoted as a fixed price against a defined scope, so you know the number before anything starts. A marketing site and a twelve-module internal tool are different orders of magnitude — tell me what you need and I’ll come back with a figure, not a range.
A marketing site runs 4–8 weeks. Internal tools and CRMs run 10–12, depending on how many modules are in scope. Brand identity and print work are usually 2–4.
Both, and that’s the point. There’s no handoff file and no second party interpreting it — the thing that goes live is the thing that was designed.
Yes. U.M.V. Adla ships with an admin panel for notices, images and page content, so day-to-day changes never touch the code. I build that in wherever the content actually changes.

Open for commissions — identity, editorial, web

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