Hello! I’m a 31-year-old product designer based out of Bangalore, India with over 7 years of professional experience designing software for early & mid-stage high-growth startups.
I love making and enjoying well-designed things. I strive to make technology better and easier to use through good visual & product design. I have found that my passion lies in designing new software products from scratch or on iterations and ideating on how the product could evolve. Currently, looking for a full-time product design role in a ‘product first’ team solving problems within areas - B2B, blockchain, and consumer social.
Background
In my current role, I am leading design at Questbook where we are building tools to eliminate all barriers between the web3 work-workforce-capital. I lead product design & strategy for an on-chain dApp to run community-led grant programs designed to fund developers in web3 ecosystems. I have also explored concepts and designs for 0>1 products to disrupt digital identity space using Reclaim protocol - a protocol that offers an interoperable, verifiable, and private way to port personal data from any web server—even without APIs. Previously, I worked at Airmeet where we enable enterprises to conduct virtual events in a post-pandemic world. I led the growth design team and shipped critical features to improve customer top-of-the-funnel activation, improved retention, and monetization - metered pricing, self-serve billing, subscription management, and landing page optimization, & product growth loops to improve premium conversions.
Before that, I worked at an early-stage startup HaikuJam where we designed a search engine for inspiration — Inspo. Before HaikuJam, I was enrolled in Y-Combinator Startup School 2019 program where I, along with my technical co-founder/hacker, designed, launched, and grew MegaX - a peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading application on Telegram. We graduated from Y-CombinatorStartup School in 2019 with this product and learned a ton during this phase.
Starting off my career, I worked in the product and research division at Quess Corp - one of the largest employers in India. Had a chance to work on a variety of internal tools in the HRMS and office management software space. Was responsible for end-to-end product design work and learned hands-on how to do everything as a UX designer - from user research, ideation, and end-to-end prototyping. You can see some of my work here.
I wasawarded the ‘Best Employee’ title for my work during the year 2017-2018.
“Ownership in anything you do, for the care you show for the products you design and overall for being a great asset for us here.”
I majored in Chemical & Material Sciences Engineering at college, but, found myself more into technology, design, and startups. I’ve slowly come to realize that my passion (read obsession) lies in building, and thinking about software products and designing interfaces.
Tools know-how:
Sketch and Figma for interface design & collaboration
Figma, Invision, and Marvel for advanced prototyping and user testing
