May 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led design & research for Microsoft Teams (250M+ MAU as of 2021) in India.
• Provided leadership to a large multidisciplinary team (28+ people) spanning design managers, user researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, UX writers, and UX engineers.
• Received the 2021 Award for Leadership Excellence (Microsoft India)
• Fostered a culture of innovation: the team filed 5+ patents, won several hackathons, and unlocked new customer scenarios across new user segments and industries.

Mar 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Headed the User Experience Design & Research team (17+ people) at IBM Labs
• Provided leadership to a team of user researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, and UI developers to intertwine user needs, cognitive computing, and business goals
• Architected the user experience of the IBM Services Platform with Watson for GTS and its clients
• Recognised as an Enterprise Design Thinking Coach by IBM Design (Only 12 coaches in all of IBM India as of May 2019)

Sep 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Took a year off to focus on my MBA and traveled to 9+ countries across 6 continents.
• Summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain in the world (5,895 metres above sea level).
• Hiked the Inca trail (26 miles ascending upto 3962 meters) to Machu Picchu.
• Was one of five students to be selected at IIM Bangalore for an exchange program at Yale School of Management, New Haven.

Nov 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Led the design efforts (mobile + desktop) for various projects in AmazonBusiness.in, Amazon.in, and Junglee.com.
• Made significant design contributions in the Product Search & Discovery, Customer Registration, Seller Experience, Seller Analytics, and Monetization areas.
• Represented the Amazon India team at Conflux 2014, Seattle, with a lightning talk on the design challenges in emerging economies.

Jan 2010 – Sep 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Redwood Shores, CA · On-site

• Redesigned the framework and support features for the Internal Support Portal (1.2 million users) from scratch. Defined information architecture, interaction design patterns, and visual design.
• Lead designer for the mobile web & native app that was launched at Oracle OpenWorld ‘11. Defined UI framework and design guidelines.
• Presented the mobile app for Enterprise Manager and Oracle Support at Oracle OpenWorld ‘11.
• Presented design visions to senior staff including key VPs and SVPs.

Feb 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos · Redwood Shores, CA · On-site

• Part of the "Special Projects" team at Oracle that tackled moonshot projects
• Designed, from scratch, a web-based application development platform (XAP: XML Applications Platform).
• Worked with heads of engineering to deeply understand and influence the underlying data model.

May 2007 – Feb 2008 · 9 mos · Pittsburgh, PA · On-site

• Designed, prototyped and evaluated a mobile application (WhisperMobile) for finding, capturing, and sharing social events.
• Co-authored academic paper.

Jan 2007 – Aug 2007 · 7 mos · Pittsburgh, PA · Hybrid

• Designed an innovative desktop based photo application (Pixaura) that helps in triaging and grouping photos for social sharing.
• Led the development and prototyping using Adobe Flex.
• Co-authored academic paper.

Jan 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Advisor: Shekhar Borgaonkar, Affordable Access Devices
• Designed and implemented a novel pen-based handwriting recognition system (Guided Handwriting) for Devanagari script.
• Designed a novel interaction technique that was comparatively faster than the existing pen-based input method environments (IMEs).
• Implemented using C++/Qt.
• Research Intern (January '05 - June '05)
• Researched existing pen-based handwriting input methods.
• Developed segmentation, feature extraction and classification algorithms and ported an existing prototype to a tablet device.