Storyteller. Designer.
Builder. Multiplier.

My first team was three friends and a borrowed camera in South India. We told hard stories: voyeurism, child abuse, female feticide. We told them because no one else would. With zero budget and no film school, we still won twenty-plus awards. Vision and purpose move people, more than money ever will.

A few years later, a violent crime exposed deep cracks in local policing. I built a real-time patrol tracking system and pitched it to state ministers. They said I was too young. The project stalled in bureaucracy. Resilience, and the art of persuasion.

That same energy took me to India's farm belts, where rising suicides had left entire villages grieving. I partnered with NGOs and stitched together low-tech tools for crop advice, insurance literacy, and a mental health helpline. The government never signed on. The farmers did. Design for dignity, not just efficiency.

By 2015, I was deep in hardware. A $100 IoT add-on that turned any refrigerator smart. An Intel global win in Silicon Valley. A startup back home with fourteen people I believed in completely. When investor conflicts shut us down, I spent weeks finding each teammate a new role. Humility, transparency, and care, especially when things fall apart.

I now lead design for AI experiences and enterprise applications at Smartsheet, where 85% of the Fortune 500 manages their most complex work. I shape the multi-year strategy for Smartsheet's evolution into a unified AI-first platform. Design A11y, our AI accessibility tool, earned Fast Company's Innovation by Design and a W³ Award. Empathy travels far, when paired with systems thinking.

And on the side, I am still building stories. Tinyverse is a therapeutic storytelling platform for children with autism. Hyper-personalized narratives with consistent illustration, designed for social-emotional learning. Twenty years after my first film, the medium changed. The mission did not.