Headline

I complain a lot and design stuff so I can stop complaining. | Lead Product Designer | AI × Product design

About

I notice when something is broken before I can explain why. That's been the most useful thing about me in every room I've been in. I've spent the last 8 years in product design, mostly at early-stage startups where the brief is vague, the timeline is aggressive, and "we'll figure out the design later" is a sentence someone actually said. Most recently at Truva, I led design across consumer products and internal tools — and in that time the business went from ₹6 Cr to ₹30+ Cr in monthly revenue and from 3 to 15 homes sold every month. I've owned product, brand, and design end-to-end, and acted as a de-facto PM more times than my title suggested. I use AI the way I use Figma — as a thinking tool, not a shortcut. --- Outside of work, I build things too. One of them is Dearest Internet: a single button that sends you somewhere on the web an algorithm would never take you. Small thing. Made with care. --- I work best when the problem is genuinely hard and the people around me give a damn. I set quality bars and hold them. I mentor. I push back when something is wrong and move fast when it's right. If you're building something ambitious and want someone who cares about the details and the direction — let's talk.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

Work experience

Founding Designer at Truva, May 2024 - Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Design lead reporting directly to founders; owned end-to-end product and brand experience across consumer, broker, and internal platforms. Led design for one of India’s most polished real-estate web experiences, spanning discovery, listings, and seamless lead-generation Built a dashboard for sellers using Softr & Airtable [ No - code ] used for early validation, onboarding, and experimentation ahead of full product launches. Winning internal hackathon. Designed and shipped multiple internal-facing products critical to operations and scale: A custom CMS that streamlined property onboarding and reduced operational friction for listing teams. Cut down time by 80% A property valuation tool enabling instant pricing estimates for houses across micro-markets (eg. Powai). Apps for brokers, improving usability, on-ground adoption & reducing bandwidth of internal team. Acted as a de-facto PM on multiple initiatives: defining problem statements, scoping MVPs, and prioritizing roadmap items with founders and engineering. Had convinced stakeholders to drop multiple feature request through reasoning. Managed and mentored a small design team (2 – 4); interviewed and hired junior designers and interns; set quality bars across product and brand.

Mentor - product design / UX / UI design at MyCaptain, Aug 2023 - May 2024 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Started my mentorship journey after years of building products and moving metrics. The first batch is a bunch of super-enthusiastic mentees who I'm looking forward to mentor in their path to design thinking.

Design leadership fellowship at Obvious, Mar 2023 - May 2023 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, During my time at Obvious, I worked with brands like Yulu, Big basket to help them take better design decisions using insights from users, product and business skills of the team.

Co-Founder: Product, Design and creators at Pancake, Jun 2022 - Mar 2023 · 10 mos, Internet, We tried to build a stupid simple website builder focussed on freedom and free-flowing expression. Received some user love. Failed on the way trying to move from the prototype stage. Let's build it again. Someday. www.pancake.page

Design Lead at upGrad Jeet, Jun 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

M.des, Strategic design and brand leadership, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Master of Science - MS, Psychology, Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai