Product Designer · Chennai
Accessibility and AI Product Designer
I designed AI tools for disability employment at Our Ability, then built them in Python and TypeScript.
Before Our Ability I was the designer and engineer on a QR menu product for restaurants. MS Information Systems, Syracuse University.
Selected work
- 01 · 2026
Product EngineerOur Ability
Two projects for a job platform built for people with disabilities. One rebuilds broken PDFs so screen readers can actually read them. The other helps candidates search jobs and figure out how to talk about a disability during a job search.
Jan 2026 – Jul 2026 - 02 · 2026
Product DesignerPlatePost: Designing a video-first menu platform for restaurants
One template, six restaurants, and one usability fix that changed all of them
6Restaurant VideoMenus designed21Months as sole designer5,798QR scans in a 4-week pilot
Apr 2024 to Jan 2026 - 03 · 2022
Lead UI/UX DesignerRedesigning a disability job platform that was hard to use if you had a disability
Cutting a four-feature redesign down to two, because our users can't absorb change the way most people can.
8.08:1Contrast on body text4 → 2Features in scopeAAWCAG 2.1 across all screens
12 weeks - 04 · 2022
UI/UX DesignerOrangeWork Hub: replacing paper shift scheduling for Syracuse student workers
A mobile app for student shift scheduling, built solo after I lived the paper process myself
8/8shift swap, first try<30 secto schedule a shift, was 30+ min on paper16 weekssolo, research to final design
16 weeks, Fall 2022 - 05 · 2024
Product Designer, SoloKnowt: Designing a streak system that makes students come back every day
Design a streak and rewards system that gives students a daily reason to return, without leaning on guilt the way Duolingo does.
8Screens designed4 daysSprint lengthKaiExisting product integrated
4 Days
About
I grew up in Palani, a small town in Tamil Nadu. The plan was to become a doctor. That didn't work out, and I ended up in computer science, which honestly wasn't my first choice. For a long time, coding felt like something I was stuck with.
I did my master's at Syracuse University and found UI/UX there. First time something in tech actually made sense to me. I volunteered, took unpaid work, did a co-op, built up experience the slow way.
Startups pulled me back into engineering. When there are only three people on the team, you do what needs doing. I kept picking up technical work until I got good at it. Now I can take something from idea to working product without handing it off, and that part I genuinely enjoy.
Outside work I've been getting into Formula 1. Lewis Hamilton is my driver. What I like about him isn't the titles, it's what he does when things aren't going his way.