I grew up in Bikaner drawing on blank paper, making things out of clay, watching "How Do They Do It" and "Factory Made" obsessively. That nothing-to-something moment has excited me since childhood. I just found my way to doing it through software.

My engineering foundation is formal, six years studying computer applications across BCA and MCA. This means I understand how products are built, not just how they look.

Before industry, I spent four years building the product design curriculum from the ground up at Lovely Professional University. Taught 500+ students and evaluated thousands of projects across inaugural Bachelor and Master of Design cohorts, when formal UX design education in India was still finding its feet.

In April 2019 I joined Bluebash as their first designer. I built the design practice from scratch and delivered end-to-end design across multiple products. The most significant was iTrust, an EHR platform for ophthalmology clinics and patients, designed zero to one, currently active in the US market.

In April 2021 I joined Kongsberg Digital, a company I chose deliberately because the problems were hard and the users were unlike anyone else I'd designed for. The vessel operators with 20+ years at sea, solving problems software had hardly reached. What I found when I arrived was maritime design that was requirement-driven and siloed. Static screens handed to developers with no research, no prototypes, no cross-team involvement. I rebuilt it from the ground up — introducing research strategy, interactive prototyping, design systems discipline, structured handoffs, and direct access to VP-level stakeholders.

"Taking design from the last voice in the room to the first."

The proof of that transformation was Vessel Performance Merchant. The research I led reframed what the product needed to be, shifting it from a compliance reporting tool to a performance monitoring and decision support product, a decision that became the commercial anchor for 650+ vessel onboardings and 450+ active users, reaching global operators including MSC, Hoegh, Frontline, and Terntank.

In May 2025, I presented at the OpenBridge Design System workshop at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design — a session on Triton Design System approach and best practices.

That same instinct follows me outside work too, building from nothing. I cook and bake, same instinct but different kitchen.