If you’re a company or an agency that cares about creating great user experiences and are looking for someone to help you build a fast, accessible and standards-compliant product or solution, I can help.

Among other things..

I’m a Design Led Solution Architect & a Network Engineer at Cisco Systems from Mumbai, with an undergrad in Electronics & Communication Engineering from VIT University, Vellore, India.

I’m currently developing Splic - a platform to create, edit, discover and play music. I also work at MutoTech as Creative Director & as Chief Developer at Chelsea FC India.

Fun Fact:

After working with every process there is, I no longer really have one.

While I started as just a designer, today I pretty much do everything. As I gained more experience and felt both the joy and heartbreak that comes with succeeding or failing in the creation of something you've poured your heart into, I cared less about being 'a designer', and more about being whatever it took to actually create the things I aspired to. I've done it all and I do it all, because I see myself simply as someone who creates things. It doesn't mean I need to take over every role in a project, just that I've done so before and I understand the complete process, allowing me to work with teams even more effectively.

Web front-end
UI/UX Development
Branding
visioning
storyboarding

HTML5 HTML5 HTML5 HTML5 CSS3 CSS3 CSS3 CSS3 CSS3 SASS JavaScript JavaScript WordPress Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator

Building fast, clean, stable, accessible and responsive user interfaces and interactions. Provide at least a basic experience for all users using older technologies by pursuing a progressive enhancement approach. Building with standards, ensuring the content is accessible to and operable by as many users as possible. Improving performance for an overall better user experience regardless of context.

Solution Architect
HCI Researcher
Startup Mentor
Writer/Analyst
Musician

Muto Technologies Computer Society of India Creation Labs Stanford HCI Crowd Research Collective Stanford Scholar OOTB

Designing solutions that make a difference - ones that fit right into your routine and make things faster, smoother and just how you have always wanted them to be. Working with teams worldwide to research and build mass platforms with emphasis on human factors. Making research more accessible and developable. Helping startups take the right decisions and the right people. Analysing The Beautiful Game down to a blade of grass.

Current Status: Partially Available

This usually means I am working on 2-3 projects or 1 big project currently and could at best accomodate a side project. I almost always have something at hand that I need to finish up before I start a new project. There is typically at least a 2 week window between the time you contact me and the time I can start working on your project.

In the interest of saving us all some time, here are some good reasons to get in touch with me in this period:

‐  You have a startup or a startup idea and want me to consult/partner. Great choice!
‐  You want to work with me on one of my projects. Even ones that only exist in my head.
‐  You have a massive idea with gaps you'd like me to fill (help with ideation). I am a good listener.
‐  You want to fund one of my projects  

For a quick overview, the following timeline calendar shows my current and future (2017) availability for work inquiries.
  • October
  • November
  • December
  • January '17
  • February '17
  • March '17
  • April '17
  • May '17
If you're confused or if you're working with future deadlines, feel free to reach out - I won't bite (I may choose not to reply immediately either).
For all other cases, please seek full availability.

Badges

A large part of my knowledge and growth has emerged out of hackathons. This TED Talk had a lot to do with that, back in 2015. In totality, I have been to and organized 50+ hackathons all over India. I take immense pride in preaching the concept of hackathons - not just to student organizations/startups but also to large scale corporate groups (old-school, but in a nice way) wanting to drive innovation within their company.

More importantly..

One third of my wardrobe consists of hackathon t-shirts and all of my devices are covered with hackathon stickers. It only seemed fitting to put some of my favorite ones on here.