Lost in the Graph
Finding your way through a knowledge graph
- Knowledge Graphs
- Wayfinding
- Intent-based UX
- AI-assisted Search
- Claude
- Figma Make
- Camera
- Pen and paper
- My brain
Head first. Hands on.
From question to shipped product.
Selected work
Through the Cone
Mission control for booking satellite passes
- Space UX
- Mission Operations
- Scheduling
- Figma Make
- Claude
- Pen and paper
- My brain
Fill the Gaps
Reviewing AI tags on broadcast media
- AI-Assisted QC
- Media Operations
- Scheduling
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Claude
- Pen and paper
- My brain
Shelf to Shelter
Getting relief supplies to disaster shelters
- Product Design
- Prototyping
- Multi-role Flows
- Accessibility
- Claude
- Figma
- Leaflet
- OpenStreetMap
- Pen and paper
- My brain
Play: side projects
About me
The Scholar & Academic
Committed to careful inquiry, and to adding original research to the field.
Published · Research paper
Sunakanandam (A Dog’s Happiness): Experimenting with Hand-drawn Animation in Cinematic Virtual Reality
Read the paper (opens Atlantis Press in a new tab)The Naturalist
Curious about the wild, and happiest capturing it quietly, on its own terms.
The Antiquarian
Drawn to ancient places, classical music, and the ideas that shaped us.
The Skyline Observer
Calm in the city's rhythm, clarity on late-night drives along the lit-up ORR.
The Everyday Guardian
Rooted in family: a father, husband, brother and son.
The journey
Mar 2025 – present
Senior UX Designer
Minfy Technologies
Carried forward into UX: Owning end-to-end UX for cloud products, from research through design-to-code handoff.
Jun 2023 – Oct 2024
UX Designer
Brane Enterprises
Carried forward into UX: Shipped real products alongside engineers and learned the trade-offs of building at scale.
2021 – 2023
M.Des, Interaction Design
IIT Hyderabad
Carried forward into UX: Turned instinct into method: research, systems thinking and interaction design.
2019
Animator & Educator
Maya Digital Studios · Image Creative Education
Carried forward into UX: Animating sharpened my craft; teaching taught me to explain my thinking simply.
2017 – 2018
3D Animation & VFX
Year-long course
Carried forward into UX: Learned how timing, motion and light change the way people feel about a screen.
2014 – 2017
Transaction Risk Investigator
Amazon
Carried forward into UX: Three years of reading risk signals trained my eye for patterns, edge cases and trust.
Class of 2013
B.E., Mechatronics
Manipal Institute of Technology
Carried forward into UX: Engineering taught me to break big problems into systems I can reason about.