I graduated in computer science from Galgotias in 2022, hooked on one thing — watching a few lines of code turn into something you can see and touch on screen. That small magic trick, text becoming interface, never stopped feeling like a superpower.

Engineering taught me the how; design was the why. So I taught myself UX — chasing craft and real impact instead of waiting for the industry to catch up. The more I built, the more I wanted a say in what got built in the first place.

During the pandemic I threw myself into AR design-and-build competitions. A lot of failures, a few wins — including top 50 of 10,000+ at Facebook's School of Innovation — and I was all in. Constraints, deadlines, and a webcam were enough to teach me how to ship.

Today I pair design craft with AI — shipping production-ready frontends with Claude Code and moving products from problem to prod in a fraction of the usual time. The tools changed; the obsession with getting the details right did not.

I now lead UX for platforms used across India's government — including aviation security for the Ministry of Civil Aviation — and build the design systems that keep AI-generated UI on the rails. From a single line of code to systems a country runs on, the throughline has always been the same: make it real, make it work, make it careful.