At my core, I love helping people — and that instinct is what pulled me into product design. I want to build things that make a real difference in someone's life, not just things that technically work. I believe good design is functional, sustainable, and visually considered, and I care deeply about making products that are inclusive and accessible to everyone.
I'm a mechanical engineer by training, but a designer at heart. I grew up in Chennai, India, and made my way to Berkeley for my MEng — a move that's given me the chance to work on everything from AI-driven assistive robots to pneumatic baby blankets. The thread running through all of it is people: I love having conversations with every person in a product's ecosystem, not just the end customer, but the clinicians, the manufacturers, the people building it alongside me.
I'm a hands-on worker who thrives on the scrappiness of early-stage prototyping — the kind where you learn the most from the things that don't go right. I've welded metal, written Python games, run FEA simulations, and been in factories watching how things actually get made. I think that breadth is what makes me useful.
Outside of work, I love crafting, cooking new dishes, and travelling. My evenings are incomplete without a cup of tea, and I have a general love for Kerala cuisine. There's nothing that grounds me like being with the people I care about — I'm deeply inspired by the people around me, and I think that shows up in how I approach design too.
I'm currently looking for full-time product design engineering roles — especially in medical devices, assistive technology, consumer hardware, or anything at the intersection of engineering and human experience. If that's you, I'd love to connect.