Journey
👨👩👧👦 2001 - 2017
Born and brought up in the beautiful city of Pune, India to the most loving parents and a doting elder brother. Went to school here and learnt a little bit of everything.
👩🏽💻 2017-2018
Was introduced to a few basic programming languages like C++ and HTML and ended up hard coding a very messy non-functional landing page UI. In the following year, was introduced to UX design as a career path by my brother and ended up reading hundreds of articles about it.
👩🏽🎓 2019 - 2023
Bachelors in UX design from MIT World Peace University, Pune
Ended up pursuing a Bachelor's in design from MIT WPU. Met and collaborated with some of the most amazing and supportive professors and friends.
💼 April 2021 - July 2021
UX/UI intern at Copia Consultancy Services
Got a chance to do my first internship at a start-up based in Mumbai. Worked along with another designer and 2 developers on re-designing a visitor management application.
💼 May 2023 - Jan 2025
Experience designer at Hexagon (Manufacturing Intelligence division)
Joined Hexagon as an intern and continued working as an Experience designer. Learnt a lot from my mentor and crafted experiences for complex digital simulation tools within the manufacturing domain.
💼 Jan 2025 - Present
UX designer at IBM
Currently working at IBM iX studio as a UX designer for a client within the energy & utilities sector. Designing internal communication management and broadcasting tool used for notifying about 13 million people about electricity outages, estimated restoration time, agents services, etc
💼 April 2025 - Present
Research intern, Empathic Computing Lab, University of Auckland
Working with Andreia Valente under the supervision of Prof. Mark Billinghurst on co-designing with experts and developing a balance toolkit which works seamlessly with low-cost balance boards like Wii Balance board, making balance data retrieval easy and cost-efficient.