Design Hackathon Award-winning UX Researcher and Designer who spent 5 years building software before realising the most interesting problems were never technical ones.
As a developer, I was always the one questioning design decisions — noticing when a flow felt off, when an interface asked too much of the user, when something technically worked but humanly didn't. I wasn't just building software; I was observing how people struggled with it. That quiet frustration — of seeing pain points and having no formal way to fix them — is what pushed me to stop coding interfaces and start understanding the people using them.
Looking back, every role had a UX dimension to it — I just didn't have the training to act on it then. Now I do.
I'm a UX Researcher and Designer based in Bengaluru. I transitioned from 5+ years of software engineering — not because I wanted to leave tech, but because I realised the most interesting problems were the human ones sitting in front of the interfaces I was building.
My research has covered rural healthcare access in Kerala, AI-powered learning tools for autistic children, and offline-first songwriting apps. What connects them is a consistent research process: understand the context deeply before touching the interface.
I'm particularly drawn to projects where the user population is underserved — rural communities, neurodivergent users, first-time technology adopters. These are the contexts where good UX research makes a measurable difference.
When I'm not in Figma or writing research reports, I'm usually reading, journaling, traveling, making origami, photography and exploring Bengaluru's food scene
Open to UX Researcher, UX/UI Designer, and Research Lead roles in Bengaluru. Also available for freelance research and design projects.