Growing up, I had a lot of career aspirations: Artist → Astronaut → Architect, but never Engineer. It somehow always felt too generic, even at an age when I didn’t really know what “generic” meant. So I did nothing about careers until college, when reality finally hit, and I had to decide what I wanted to do with my life.

Ironically, as much as I disliked engineering, I ended up pursuing it.

During COVID-19, I started making creatives for stories a friend who was posting on a page on Facebook. Somewhere along the way, I stumbled upon UI/UX Design. It sounded fancy enough to pull me in, and creative enough to make me stay. I learned it and practiced the hell out of it.

Once I had some confidence, I took up internships and eventually landed a full-time role at Inverse Studio. This is where my foundations were built, thanks to Ashutosh and Mandar. I worked with WeWork, Fitqii, Nurturev (now nRev), Monkify, and several others, on responsive websites, SaaS tools, and native iOS & Android apps.

During this time, I also worked with a friend on Sowpeace, a Shopify ecommerce brand, and got a firsthand taste of what it’s like to be a co-founder who’s also the designer.

After nearly two years at Inverse and Sowpeace, I wanted to move into a more product-focused role, one where I could go deep into a single product and take it from 0 → 1. That’s what I did at Dental Stack, where I designed for an entirely new user base. I owned designs, FRDs, and product messaging for order management workflows, ledger like billing & payments, treatment tracking across web and mobile, serving Clinicians, Aligner Companies, Labs, and Patients.

Thanks to Rishang and Ashish at Dental Stack, I pushed myself to work with AI and learned a lot about integrating it meaningfully into my workflow. It was also during this phase that I discovered a growing urge to build something of my own. I’m currently attempting to build an app with the help of AI, that lets users add links with passwords and expiry dates. So far, I’ve managed to run it locally, with zero prior coding experience. Making it public with the right feature set is still a work in progress.

I’m currently working as an Independent Product Designer, open to full-time Product and UX Design opportunities.