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Principal product designer and design engineer, AI-native enterprise platforms.

Bangalore, India18 years

Principal product designer and design engineer with 18 years of experience across enterprise SaaS, banking and fintech, analytics and AI products. I design AI-native products end to end: human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability and trust patterns, and agentic interfaces.

I write the spec, build the design system and ship the front end, using an AI-assisted design-to-delivery pipeline built around a typed intent model. I lead design teams through direction, review and mentoring.

Feb 2025 – Present

Principal Product Designer

DBiz.ai / Bangalore, India
  • Lead design across client and internal AI products with a team of 5 designers, alongside the Head of Design, CTO and engineering directors. Mentored 3 senior designers and helped hire 2.
  • Created the intent model method: a typed model of actors, entities, journeys and rules that produces API schemas, validation, screens and prompts. It reduced 20 open questions to 1 in a 90-minute stakeholder session, and platform engineering is now building it into a company platform.
  • Built the Intent Model Canvas, a collaborative app for reviewing requirements with multi-reviewer consensus and AI editing, and presented the method to about 120 people in a company-wide talk.
  • Pioneered an AI-assisted method for building enterprise SaaS components in code without drift or revision rot, with commit-time checks across requirements, design system and code.
  • Built a registry-first design system on shadcn used across a logistics product, an agent platform and internal tools, where one token file rethemes a product without code changes.

Factweavers, an AI analytics platform

  • Owned UX direction, information architecture and the design system. In pilots a first dashboard took 24 minutes, 3.5x faster than PowerBI and Tableau Pulse.
  • Defined human-in-the-loop, explainability and trust patterns for AI-assisted metric and dashboard creation. 80% of pilot users trusted a metric that showed its working.

Native mobile mail app for a US software company

  • Lead designer against a baseline of 957 requirements. Delivered 759 screens across five design milestones, designed in code with no Figma and the React Native repository as the design source of truth.
Dec 2022 – Mar 2025

Principal Product Design Consultant

HFA Research / Remote
  • Led product and experience design for a DeFi research platform with 5,000+ free users and about 500 paid subscribers, designing data-dense dashboards and money-flow visualisations across blockchain ecosystems.
  • Directed a team of 2 designers and 4 engineers, and built the production front end in Angular.
Mar 2023 – Oct 2023

Lead UX Designer

Kloudspot / Bangalore, India
  • Led design for the digital-twin practice, directing 3 senior designers, 2 junior designers and 2 3D designers across hardware, 3D modelling, Unity and front-end teams.
  • Created a design process, modular design system and twin UI kit that cut twin build time from 16 weeks to 6, contributing to a 110% rise in new project signings across 8+ enterprise deployments.
Jul 2021 – Oct 2022

Principal Consultant, Product Design

Metro Bank / London, United Kingdom
  • Led research-driven design for Metro Bank's commercial banking platform, running interview rounds with relationship managers and cash managers and mapping workflows from setup to monitoring.
  • Research-led information-architecture changes cut support calls 17%, and a redesigned onboarding and identity verification flow improved the decline rate by 21%.
2019 – 2021

Principal Architect, Product Design

ila Bank, Bank ABC Group / Manama, Bahrain
  • Built the UX, UI and design system for ila Bank's mobile banking app from scratch, leading a design team of 8.
  • Ran six weeks of user interviews across Bahrain and designed Hassala, a goal-based savings product that took $6M in its first 10 days.
  • The app won the Red Dot Award, Gartner Eye on Innovation and Transform MEA recognition, and held a 4.7 out of 5 rating with 60,000+ customers.

ntentntent.app

A setup for building B2B SaaS with an AI coding agent. The agent installs tiered plans from the site, writes down what was agreed, and a commit hook checks every commit against it, so the product stays correct as it grows.

TypeStaxtypestax.com

A typography tool in an analog-hardware interface. It builds type scales from real font metrics, offers 63 curated heading and body pairings, previews them on a full page, and exports to CSS, Tailwind and Figma tokens.

CortexPanelcortexpanel.com

A panel of experts you can question. Each answer is grounded in that expert's own indexed content, not the open web, with citations, confidence tiers and a moderator synthesis, held to a 56-question accuracy audit.

4bars4bars.app

A daily music guessing game for the web. Five questions a day: hear a clip, name the genre, then drop a pin on a map where it began. It draws on a corpus of 400 genres with origin cities.

Loadoutloadoutmac.com

An open-source macOS menu bar app that controls what Claude Code loads into context. It switches skills, plugins and MCP servers on or off from one panel, and lists local dev servers.

TrustedGyntrustedgyn.com

A public directory of 319 trauma-informed gynaecologists in India, with natural-language search and 9 languages.

2018 – 2019

UX Architect

DH Anticounterfeit

Designed the UX, design system and insights engine for CaseMate, a brand-protection case management platform. Website take-downs rose 40% and marketplace listing removals 34%.

2016 – 2018

Product Designer (contract)

Consulting

Redesigned ICICI Bank's banking app at ScreenRoot, where the app-store rating rose from 4.1 to 4.6 within 3 months of launch, and HDFC Bank car loans, cutting abandonment by 16%.

2014 – 2016

Lead UI/UX Designer

BigBinary

Designed the UX and UI and built a responsive front-end framework for Healthicity, AAPC's compliance manager with 10 tools, and built UI and front end for UL's Markshub, UL Go and UL Verify.

2010 – 2014

Front-End / UI Designer

Bang the Table (now Granicus)

Designed and built the front end and UI for EngagementHQ, a civic-engagement platform used by Australian governments, and led the accessibility work that earned AA certification from Vision Australia. Built a theming framework that cut theme turnaround from 8 weeks to 2.

2008 – 2010

Staff UI Designer / Front-End Engineer

Beehively

Designed and built front ends for school-management software used at 100+ US schools.

Product design

Product design, UX strategy, information architecture, interaction design, user research and interviews, usability testing, data visualisation

AI product design

AI-native interaction design, human-in-the-loop and explainability patterns, agentic interfaces, intent modelling and spec-driven design, AI-assisted design and development

Design systems and front end

Design tokens and theming, accessibility (WCAG), prototyping in code, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, React Native, Figma, Claude Code

Leadership

Design leadership, mentoring and design review, stakeholder and client workshops

B.Tech programme, Computer Science & Engineering

Government Engineering College, Thrissur