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California, United States

San Francisco, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Spearheading Design and Community Experience

Remote, Usa, Us

Client : Ruminate (https://letsruminate.org), a nonprofit innovation hub operating out of Grand Rapids, MI who provide consulting, testing, and service design services for entities that are contributing to a sustainable food system.-- Leading the Design & Research team comprising of 4 designers and researchers.-- Collaborating closely with clients to refine the product vision by integrating user needs and optimal UX practices.-- Steering the strategic course for conceptualizing and shaping the user experience of the product throughout the project lifecycle.-- Capitalizing on existing research outcomes to craft UX artifacts rooted in research findings.-- Crafting assorted project-specific artifacts, encompassing Storyboards, Journey maps, User flow Diagrams and Customer Experience Representations, Personas, Initial low-fidelity prototypes, Advanced high-fidelity prototypes-- Providing constructive feedback and mentorship to junior team members in all project endeavors.-- Facilitating and moderating UX-focused workshops involving the project group and the client's team.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

-- Tutoring and Mentoring 60 students through an intensive 24-week boot camp on UX/UI Design at UC Berkeley Extension.-- Supporting student’s mastery of human-centered design principles, design thinking processes, and visual design principles.-- Review of students' projects and portfolios and provide critical feedback for their development.-- Conducting regular check-ins to keep students motivated, answering questions and providing support as needed, encouraging them to overcome challenges and achieve their learning goals.-- Helping students build their portfolios and create product deliverables like personas, journey maps, and prototypes.

-- Collaborated with clients to understand their needs and worked on elevating the user experience. -- Brought a holistic approach to Design that incorporates both technical expertise and user-centered design principles.-- Designed and maintained various website and mobile apps that are both effective and technically feasible.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Adobe Advertising Cloud Worked on Java-8, Microservices, OAuth-2.0, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring, Dropwizard, JUnit, Mockito, Robot Framework, Prometheus, Grafana, Bazel and Maven build systems.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Product: Adobe Primetime - TVSDK Adobe Primetime helps programmers and operators reach viewers on any IP-connected screen, strengthening brand affinity for content owners and creating more value for pay-TV service. With a unified, highly secure workflow for live, linear and video-on-demand (VOD) programming, Adobe Primetime delivers an engaging, personalized viewing experience on every device and desktopWorked on: MongoDB, ExpressJS, NodeJS, D3jsRole: Involved with the Automation framework development team.Product:Adobe Flash Runtime DRM, allows customer to deliver protected content across different platforms using Primetime AAXS DRM tools and services. Role : Contributed to the design and development of the Automation of the nightly runs for flash player builds & managed the Automation across multiple platforms and browsers.• Integral Components: STAF, CodexListener, MySQl Database, ReportServer.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Worked on a research project at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to develop a test-bed for SDN (Software-Defined Networking)

Certification, Ux/Ui

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Science