Resume

The one‑page version.
Research, product design and the front end that ships.

The one‑page version.
Research, product design and the front end that ships.

The one‑page version.
Research, product design and the front end that ships.

Product Designer with 5+ years turning complex B2B, payments and e-commerce workflows into shipped products with measurable impact, end to end from research to React code. Co-designed Firefly’s website, whose enquiries drive ~15–17% of annual revenue. At DADO, built group-gifting payments, the ops console and The Edit for a 5,000-invite beta.

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Experience

Five years, three roles

Aug 2026 → Present

Product Designer

DADO Luxury Ventures Inc.

· One of three designers on three launch products, turning ambiguous requirements into flows presented to the founders and shipped React code on a shared Figma design system (154 tokens, variants, email templates, WCAG 2.1 AA).

· Let contributors commit without paying up front: designed and built the One Big Wish payment model, where a pledge by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay is charged only after the wish closes, with consent wording stored on every pledge, a guest pledge path with email verification and age checks, and safeguards for wishes made for children.

· Built the operations console so ops runs pledges, charges, refunds and moderation without engineering, with two-person approval on payouts; automated delivery pricing cut manual admin checks per order from 3 to 2.

· Created The Edit, DADO’s high-craft editorial storefront of gift guides, seasonal calendars and city editions, and set up Airtable as its catalogue source of truth, synced into the admin console so editors publish on their own.

· Shaped Accounts, a lifetime gifting record (connections, occasions, gift history, wishlists), and its three-level privacy model so close connections, not everyone, see sizes and preferences; owned its flows, IA and front end.

· Planned and ran pre-launch QA and usability testing (300+ cases, nine areas, eight testers), triaging 38 failures with engineering and redesigning failing pages: pass rate 81% to 100% before the 5,000-invite beta, with Amplitude and Sentry set up and live at launch.

100%

100%

100%

QA pass rate before the beta, up from 81%

QA pass rate before the beta, up from 81%

Aug 2024 → May 2026

UX Teaching Assistant and UX Research Assistant

Arizona State University

· Coached 325 students in six UX courses through design critique of 120+ projects and accessibility reviews of 115+.

· Led mixed-methods user research on older adults’ adoption of in-home healthcare robots: synthesized 40+ studies into six usability and trust barriers and designed the survey instruments behind two IRB-ready proposals.

· Modeled four end-to-end user flows for human-robot interaction scenarios in Miro and planned the usability and trust evaluation with the faculty research team.

325

325

325

students coached

students coached

Jan 2021 → Jul 2024

UX Designer

Firefly Fire Pumps Pvt. Ltd.

· Co-designed an internal sales tool for ~100 sales and operations users at a pump maker with 10,000+ installations in 40+ countries, moving quotes out of Excel into 6 tracked states from draft to closed; built by MID from Figma specs.

· Structured its information architecture: 8 modules on one flow from inquiry to handoff, a 4-layer product catalogue from sales-rep research, and a 5-state field model so reps could save partly known inquiries; won stakeholder alignment in walkthroughs before build.

· Co-designed the B2B website, turning one dense catalogue into category- and application-led discovery across 3 pump categories (portable, vehicle-mounted, PTO) with 3 enquiry flows; website enquiries now convert into ~15–17% of annual revenue (~$1.9M), per the Director of Sales and Marketing.

· As the only designer for 19 months, took the website through its 2023 launch, owning the shared Figma design guide (foundations, forms, tables, status patterns), developer handoff and design QA with the external development team.

~15–17%

~15–17%

~15–17%

of revenue from web enquiries

of revenue from web enquiries

Skills

What I reach for, grouped by the job

01 UX & Product Design

Personas

Product Design

0-to-1 Product Design

UX/UI Design

Interaction Design

Information Architecture

User Flows

Task Flows

Wireframing

Prototyping

High-Fidelity UI

Visual Design

Branding

Typography

Dashboards

Journey Mapping

Responsive and Mobile-First Design

Edge Cases and Error States

02 Research & Validation

Quantitative Research

User Research

Mixed-Methods Research

User Interviews

Surveys (Qualtrics)

Usability Testing

Heuristic Evaluation

Card Sorting

Competitive Analysis

Research Synthesis

Stakeholder Walkthroughs

03 Design Systems & Accessibility

Design Systems

Component Libraries

Design Tokens

Figma Variables

Auto Layout and Variants

Design QA

Design-to-Dev Handoff

Accessibility (WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA)

04 Product & Collaboration

Product Strategy

PRDs

User Stories

Requirements Gathering

Stakeholder Alignment

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Agile/Scrum

B2B SaaS

Internal Tools

E-commerce

Payments

Marketplaces

05 Engineering & Data

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Supabase

SQL

Product Analytics (Amplitude, GA4)

Sentry

06 AI & Tools

Figma

FigJam

Framer

Miro

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

v0

Prompt Engineering

AI Product Design

Human-in-the-Loop AI

Education and publication

Two degrees and one paper

May 2026

May 2026

Master of Science, User Experience

Arizona State University · GPA 4.00/4.00

June 2024

June 2024

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

Shivaji University · CGPA 8.57/10

2023

2023

QRxPERT, co-author

IJFMR Vol. 5, Issue 6 · medication counselling UX