Experience
2024 — 2026
2024 — 2026
San Francisco Bay Area
Designing experiences for a personal AI language tutor
Designed the first AI tutoring + roleplay experience, featured in OpenAI’s speech-to-speech demo—enabling learners to roleplay with the tutor and break character to ask questions.
Created the Tutor Lesson format—fully AI-generated and AI-delivered lessons that simulate the guidance of a real tutor, enabling dynamic exploration and scalable content creation.
Launched Made for You and Targeted Lessons, personalized AI lesson types that generate unique content for each learner based on their level, goals, and mistakes—bringing true 1:1 tutoring to the app.
Designed Tutor Threading, an interaction model where users can ask questions anytime and trigger on-demand AI-generated lessons—making the tutor a persistent, intelligent companion.
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Spearheaded design for the Safe Reporting initiative escalation flows, reducing response time on critical safety issues for dashers by 66%, by prioritizing and triaging issues for support agents.
Drove design for Consumer Fraud initiatives: Photo Collections for claims, Signature on Delivery, PIN code. Together leading to expected savings of $19M in profit.
Designed new features for Consumer Chargebacks Fraud: Pause & Review by a support agent (instead of auto-block), and agent-assisted checkout when payment needs verification, together increasing gross order volume by $27M.
For Dasher Fraud: Led Design for Payout Deferrals + Warnings, reducing instances of dasher fraud by 33% YoY. Standardized designs for education, notification, and escalation of dasher contract violations.
Led vision and strategy work, including fraud design principles and hosting workshops for ideation and education.
Pioneered and designed Customer-Dasher Auto Chat Translations (my Hackathon idea), resulting in 7.7-15.6% reduction in Never Delivered Orders when languages are mismatched (7-10% of orders), contributing to a combined annual profit improvement of over $925k.
2020 — 2022
2020 — 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Led design for revenue growth, including features for subscriptions. Helped grow revenue per user by 6.5%.
Designed for global audiences, including regionalized features specifically tailored for Asia.
Led design for Video Chat, including features tailored to dating: time limits and post-chat follow-up.
Added dating preferences for users who identify with different orientations and genders, to promote inclusivity and diversity.
2020 — 2020
2020 — 2020
San Francisco Bay Area
Project lead, Designing UI/UX, creating user journeys and capturing edge
cases while collaborating with engineers to build products.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Bangalore
Design agency that creates digital solutions. I worked as an embedded product designer for the following clients:
Pratham Books (EdTech): Designed translation, offline access, user dashboard for content management, audiobooks, reading list, and review system for StoryWeaver. Helped empower educators, parents, and children to create 16,000+ stories, with 2.8M reads.
Linkstreet (EdTech): Designed online classrooms, quizzes, and growth management dashboard for RapL, a micro-learning tool that’s helped 20,000+ businesses teach employees the skills they need to grow.
Flipkart (e-commerce): Designed product and user experience for 2Gud from the ground up, which 10,000+ people have downloaded to buy verified refurbished electronics.
Paisool (e-commerce): Conceptualized and designed an MVP for local grocery vendors that helps them grow their customer base with features like easy credits, custom subscriptions and scheduled delivery.
Education
California College of the Arts
Master's degree
National Institute of Fashion Technology India