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My Journey

Over the past decade, I’ve shaped a wide range of products from the ground up for multiple startups. With over 4+ years focused in design systems, I’ve built flexible foundations that support teams across the globe—balancing creative expression with business needs. At Condé Nast, I played a key role in evolving the Verso Design System to support the diverse needs of iconic brands like Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Condé Nast Traveler.

Ambo

August 2025 - Present

Design Consultant

Consulting with early-stage Employee Advocacy startup Ambo, supporting its 0→1 product journey, UX strategy, and foundational product decisions.

Redesigned the Ambo app to support a broader set of workflows, enabling teams to create, customize, schedule, and distribute content in more flexible ways as the product matured.

Built a foundation for future growth, restructuring navigation, patterns, and components so new functionality could be introduced consistently over time.

Introduced AI-driven experiences into core journeys, defining interaction patterns that made content creation more assistive and contextual while maintaining clarity, trust, and user control.

Advised multiple organisations on building scalable design systems, component architecture, and strong UX foundations

Condé Nast​

Dec 2020 - July 2025

Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

Played a key role in shaping and evolving the Verso Design System, driving foundational improvements that support the diverse needs of 20+ iconic Condé Nast brands including Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Condé Nast Traveler to scale effectively.


Drove significant increases in conversion and engagement by collaborating with 35+ global designers to craft and scale high-performing brand, subscription, and e-commerce experiences. Created 30+ reusable components and patterns, expanding the Verso design system to multiple Condé Nast brands and markets.


Accelerated product feature delivery by 30% - 50% through new token structure, reusable components, clear governance, and improved design dev workflows. Increased design system adoption across product teams by 2× through structured onboarding, documentation, and advocacy programs.


Launched a public-facing design system site as a central hub for designers and developers, significantly improving onboarding time and reducing support requests from Design System users by 60%.


Implemented a new token architecture that enabled sub-brand and component-level color theming, and expanded the system with spacing and motion tokens — adopted by 22 brands across multiple markets to standardise layouts while maintaining flexibility.


Championed best practices in Figma and design systems to drive scalable, reusable design patterns across global teams, while facilitating monthly Design System Advocate sessions to promote adoption and collaboration.


Ensured accessibility and performance standards were integrated from the ground up.

Quintype

April 2018 - Nov 2020

Product Designer

Drove a 60% growth in user base by leading the end-to-end design of Ahead, Quintype’s website builder for publishers, adopted by major brands including Bar & Bench, The New Indian Express, and Outlook Traveller.


Delivered page builder app enabling publishers to create personalized  brand, reducing brand experience creation time from over two weeks to just 2–3 days.


Co-led the redesign of Bold CMS and designed features for Quintype’s subscription and engagement platforms. Developed the Quintype Design System, establishing scalable UI foundations across multiple products.


Designed brand experiences for a range of news publishers such as Fortune India, Kalaignar Seithigal, National Herald, MediaOne, and more. Also provided design consulting for Bloomberg Quint.

Your Story

May 2016 - April 2018

UI/UX Designer

Redesigned YourStory’s Android and iOS apps to align with product vision and evolving user needs.


Worked on multiple early-stage product ideas and internal initiatives including Conversations@YS, YourKit, and Ecosystem by YS.


Designed several marketing websites and microsites for clients such as Amazon Web Services, Shell, Dell, and Wired.

Red Panther

Jan 2015 - Nov 2015

Designer / Developer

Designed user-centered interfaces and translated them into production-ready code using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap 3, and Foundation frameworks.

 

Collaborated with back-end engineers for seamless integration and performance.

Contributed to branding, designing logos, marketing websites, email templates, and print collateral to maintain a cohesive visual identity across platforms.

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