Maker and product designer with over 15 years of experience shaping products and guiding design teams across agencies, startups, and enterprise environments. Long-time contributor to Free and Open Source projects, active in community building and design-led initiatives. Currently leading design at Kaleyra, Tata Communications. I also run the community initiatives Kerala Designers Collabrative, UXFOSS, and Ksha Collectives.
In my career, I’ve worked on communication, content-management, and public-engagement products across early teams, and enterprise environments, designing and building teams that align with business and product priorities while translating goals into clear, usable interfaces and setting direction that delivers business impact. I co-founded Saltmangotree, an early digital marketing studio in India, where I led design and technology until its acquisition in 2013.
My path into design began with my interest in Free and Open Source Software and by volunteering with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing in 2006, where I contributed to efforts to revive the project, created Dyuthi, an ornamental Malayalam Unicode font, and worked on other language computing projects. I also designed Rufscript, a handwritting like Latin display typeface, available under Open Font License.
Alongside this, I participate in community initiatives. I’m active in Kerala Designer Co., which focuses on shared learning. UXFOSS is a recent initiative that promotes design contributions to FOSS projects. Ksha Collectives explores simple, playful tools for language learning.
These days I’m based in Bengaluru and reachable at [email protected].