Headline

Shaping Thoughtful Digital Experiences | With Empathy & Clarity

About

Product design professional with 25+ years of experience across enterprise products, AI-native experiences, biometric identity management, and complex digital ecosystems. The journey has moved progressively from designing interfaces and workflows to shaping broader experience direction, product thinking, and the systems that allow good design to scale. Much of the work has involved environments where complexity is unavoidable. Enterprise platforms, identity systems, governance-heavy workflows, and more recently AI-driven products have all required balancing user needs with business priorities, technical constraints, operational realities, and long-term product viability. Recently, designing for agentic and human-AI systems has added a crucial dimension to that thinking. When software acts autonomously on behalf of users, the design mandate moves well beyond usability. Trust, transparency, human-in-the-loop control, and responsible autonomy become foundational to product strategy. A growing part of the work involved connecting experience decisions to broader product outcomes, improving adoption, increasing reuse through shared design patterns, reducing fragmentation across experiences, and helping Product, Design, and Engineering make more aligned decisions. Across very different domains, one theme has stayed constant: the most interesting design problems are rarely about the screen alone. They are about understanding the system around it and shaping better outcomes within it.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

ChatGPT

Figma Make

Work experience

Senior Principal Designer at Contentstack, Aug 2025 - Aug 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru

UI-UX Architect at Unisys Global Services India, Mar 2010 - Aug 2025 · 15 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, India

Lead - User Experience/UI Designer at Unisys, Mar 2010 - Nov 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos, I have strongly advocated integrating usability in the product life cycle. Working with the agile development model, it’s important that the prototyping and UI standards are not compromised. Involvement with the Requirements team for BRD, consultant for custom UI development and quality check throughout the product development overlaps my role of a usability specialist, UI designer, project coordinator and product owner.

Programmer Analyst-UI Designer at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune, Mar 2007 - Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Area of Specialization - Usability and Interaction Design - Graphic Technologies & Animation - 3D computer visualization

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune, 2007 - Mar 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Graphic Designer at Aptara Corporation, Feb 2005 - Feb 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Education

Certified Usability Analyst, Usability, Human Factors International

HCI certification, Human Computer Interaction, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay