Certified Usability Analyst ™

Discovery

Top 30% Python Coder

Storytelling

“Influencing Others” by John Ullmen

Top 50% TensorFlow Coder

Certified Usability Analyst

Certificate of Membership

Unity Game Development Build 2D & 3D Games

Professional Member

President

Speaker

1 of the Local Leaders for the IxDA Bangalore Chapter, building a community of designers across all forms of interaction.

Local Leader

Sharing learnings based on my experiences and helping young designers adapt to the ever shifting career paths and trends in the design and UX domain.

Design Mentor

As part of the UX/UI Course at Springboard, I am helping students go through the curriculum with best practices, guidance and tips on UX and Design Thinking.

Certified Usability Analyst™

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)

High School ICSE

Lending a helping hand in building an awesome design/prototype tool called Adobe XD, based on the real needs of designers!
Enabling designers with best practices on Design, UX & UI using Adobe XD and ensuring smooth production/design workflows for our Enterprise partners.

Design Evangelist/Strategic Development Manager

Leading a team of awesome UX designers on a journey of building the next gen e-commerce platform.

Design Head : E-commerce

Senior Web Designer

UI Design Manager

Turning threat detection into a user-friendly breeze—no vulnerabilities, just smooth sailing!

Vice President Product UX

Setup UX and Usability Practice within the organisation while successfully delivering complex enterprise projects.

Manager UI/UX

Setup design team and mentor them towards delivering world class UI for a customized Android OS and K-12 learning system.

User Experience Design Manager

Setup the UX practice and delivered successful enterprise projects while building a mature design team.

Director-UX & Creative Design

Multimedia Developer

Usability & UX Practice Manager

Faculty of Multimedia Studies

Leading a team of UX designers for a commercial Banking project in South Africa.

User Experience Consultant

Studio Head

At Airbase, now part of Paylocity, I lead the User Experience function - shaping product vision, scaling design practices, and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive, high-impact solutions for spend management. My focus spans product strategy, team leadership, and fostering a design culture that balances user needs with business outcomes. We’re building tools that don’t just work - they empower.

Director of Product Design - Airbase

Building empowering software with Trust and Empathy!

Director of Product Design

Affordance Design Studio is where UX strategy, persistence, and AI innovation come together to build products with purpose.

Currently focusing on solving two pressing problems in today’s digital landscape:
	•	Inefficient workflows → through AI microservices that simplify, automate, and enhance everyday tasks.
	•	A broken hiring experience → through an AI-driven recruitment platform (on a seed fund path) that makes job seeking and talent discovery more human-centered.

Born from decades of design leadership at companies like Adobe, Citrix, Wipro, and Reliance, the studio is a space for re-learning, experimenting, and creating products that are not born from comfort, but from courage.

Affordance Design Studio: persistence as process, design as impact.

Founder

From designing in pixels to building with AI - i now run an AI first UX Design Studio.

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