Headline

Design Leader | AI Interfaces & Intelligent Systems | Founder-led 0→1 Products

About

I started in architecture, designing buildings and townships shaped by human behavior, movement, and real-world constraints. That’s where I learned to think in systems. Over the last decade in tech, I’ve worked as a founder and product builder across design, strategy, GTM, and execution. I’ve never been interested in design as surface alone. What drives me is making products more usable, more valuable, and easier for people to act through. I’m most drawn to products that help people think clearly, make better decisions, and move toward meaningful action – not products built to trap attention. I care less about tools as identity and more about the principles underneath them: usability, clarity, behavior, and truth. That mindset has shaped how I work across startups, no-code, and now AI-enabled workflows. I’m especially interested in AI-native products, intelligent interfaces, and systems that help people think, explore, and build better.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

midjourney

openai

Work experience

Member of Design Staff at Emergent, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Bengaluru

Principal Product Designer at Nagent AI, Apr 2025 - Jun 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Founding Role | Designed a no-code visual AI agent builder from first principles, focusing on low cognitive load, workflow-based creation, and copilot-assisted UX for non-technical users.

Independent Product Building Engagements at Freelance, Apr 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Helped early-stage founders design AI-native MVPs; multiple products shipped, some raised funding.

Head of Design at Palo, Feb 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Led design of an AI-powered SEL platform, including a distress detection system used across 12+ US school districts, reducing counselor review time by ~60%.

Lead Product Designer at Talentnook, Feb 2020 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, India, Scaled discovery and learning workflows for a live tutoring platform supporting 500+ weekly sessions across 150+ US cities

Founder at TaccoMacco, May 2016 - Jan 2020 · 3 y 8 mo, New Delhi

Education

Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Public links

kumarishere.com: https://www.kumarishere.com/