about

A designer who sees the world through the user's eye.

I dance, I travel for the food, and I design for a living. I grew up in Bangalore, then moved to Boston for my master's at Northeastern University. Now I'm a designer at alliant, where over the past two years I've built a design practice across enterprise, SaaS, B2B, and AI products. The throughline across all of it is the same: take a dense, manual workflow and turn it into something clear enough to use without help.

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✦ Open to product design roles ✦ Dancer ✦ Obsessed with escape rooms ✦ Open to relocation ✦ Explorer ✦ Open to work ✦ Foodie ✦ Open to product design roles ✦ Dancer ✦ Obsessed with escape rooms ✦ Open to relocation ✦ Explorer ✦ Open to work ✦ Foodie

How I work

I find where the experience breaks

I audit the product against real usage data, not opinions, so the work starts on what is hurting people most.

AmeriGas: ranked every gap against a year of support-call volume.

I turn dense workflows into clear flows

I take multi-system, manual processes and shape them into screens people can move through without a manual.

CM Wealth: four systems and a spreadsheet chain became one workspace.

I validate with real users early

I test concepts and flows before they are built, so teams decide from evidence instead of assumptions.

AmeriGas role management shipped two views because research showed both were real.

I build systems that scale with the product

I design the patterns and components that keep products consistent as they grow.

alliant's design system went v1 to v2, now behind every product.
01 Favorite Quote

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.”

Dr Ralf Speth, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover
02 Tool Deck
Figma
Azure DevOps
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03 Connect

Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or send me an email. I read everything; I reply to most things.

04 Must Read
Laws of UX, Jon Yablonski
User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
Articulating Design Decisions, Tom Greever
Design for How People Think, John Whalen

Education

2022 to 2023

M.S. in Information Systems

Specialization in User Experience · Northeastern University, Boston MA

2016 to 2020

B.E in Information Science & Engineering

Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore INDIA

Experience

Aug 2024 to Present

Product Designer · alliant

I lead design end to end across alliant's products: a self-service SaaS platform used by 1.5M customers, the client portal, an enterprise agentic AI platform with a no-code bot builder, a wealth-management dashboard, and a field inventory app live on iOS and Android. I also built the company's first design system and brand, and I own delivery with engineering through sprints, specs, and design QA.

May 2024 to Aug 2024

UX Designer · FounderWay

Designed FounderWay's core report flow, turning a founder's prompt into editable pitch decks and GTM plans, now used by 1,000+ founders. Ran research across 15 pain points and rebuilt the design system with 15+ reusable components.

Jan 2023 to Dec 2023

User Experience Assistant · Northeastern University

Built a QR-code submission system that cut document submission to 60 seconds, and ran 100+ surveys to surface the top five pain points across student systems.

2019 to 2020

UX Designer · Freelance

Lifted small-business website conversions by about 35% across industries through redesigns and A/B testing in Figma and Sketch.