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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Amplified company growth from 2 clients to 500+ clients, achieving zero to $1 million ARR within 1.8 years.• Led the 0-1 product design process for the ’MES: Manufacturing & Execution System’ a product from scratch within 2.5 months, for a modular furniture factories, targeting multiple personas, including desktop & mobile app design. Currently Generating 40% of the total revenue.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Spearheaded the design of a cloud-based SaaS B2B platform for architecture & interior design, serving 500+clients, within a fast paced agile startup environment.• Advocate for design thinking and innovation within the organization. Developing and maintaining thedesign system, reusable component system and enforcing design standards and best practices.• Revamped the entire product from a developer-made UI within the initial 3 months to initiate sales.• Designed and led 6 complex products including the Admin, Design, Investment, Billing Portals, ComponentEditor, 360 Viewer & VR Viewer. Managing parallel design projects across different platforms.• Conducted user research, interviews and competitive analysis to gather user requirements. Createdwireframes, flows, prototypes and full mockups. Led usability testing and design QAs.• Fostered cross-functional collaboration, guiding in designs during daily scrums and ensuring smoothalignment of designs and engineering, leading to a 30% reduction in implementation issues.• Collaborated with CEO, CTO, in product strategies & feature planning, contributing to $1M ARR growth.• Undertook some product manager roles along with the CTO during the first 6months in the absence of PMs.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Assisting in courses and projects of Prof. Jayesh Pillai in IDC, IIT Bombay,• Building Virtual space for IHCI 2021 virtual conference for posters and demos session.• Taking part in assisting VR Design course• Assistance in Prof's project and senior's project who are under prof Jatyesh.• Part of Immersive media experience design Labs in IITB.Publication:• PaperPublishedInIndiaHCI2022,India: Touchting,Aproducttosendtouchesoverlongdistance. Feb 2022 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3506469.3506478• Paper Published In Interactive space & surface 2022, Poland: Touch and explore, A Game in POV of visually challenged.Nov 2021 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3506469.3506478• Paper Published in IEEE-Virtual Reality 2021, Lisbon: Lowcost arm based motion restriction device.May 2021 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3506469.3506478

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Collaborated with Aromal Ram at Nutanix, Inc. to enhance the first-time user experience for "Flow Security Central" SaaS product.• Redesigned onboarding process, leading to a 30% reduction in client tickets for cloud resource setup.• Established a standardized onboarding framework for all Nutanix applications.

Chennai Area, India

• Published a full-fledged game with 80 levels in the Play Store, with monetization strategies. Designed & developed individually within 3 months from scratch. It has 1K+ downloads and a 4.9 rating, & generating revenue• Freelanced several UX and interaction design projects.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Facilitated the UI overhaul of a fintech product, called TRAFACS a reinsurance claims software, transforminglegacy system into a web app achieving a 78% CSAT score.• Analyzed business to create FR & Design Documents, and performed design QAs. Reduced errors 20%.

Chennai Area, India

• Headed production support for insurance products, reducing job failure by 85% on daily basis. Directlycoordinating with client in the US to collaborate and develop, 2 reinsurance products.

Masters In Design, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 8.4

Master Diploma In Product Design And Analysis, Industrial And Product Design

Learnt Autodesk Autod CAD for drafting, Parametrics Creo, Dassault Systèmes Solidworks, for part modeling and assembly. and Ansys work.

High School Diploma, Computer Science, 95.5%