My Journey
I didn’t enter design with a clear plan. I entered it out of curiosity and stayed because of momentum, feedback, and real-world impact.
Discovering design (by accident)
2021
In my second year of college, during COVID, I came across a UX weekly hackathon run by a designer from Adobe. The prize was just $25, but every submission received detailed feedback. I participated for 3–4 consecutive months, iterating every week and that feedback loop is where I truly learned. At the time, I was pursuing Electrical & Electronics Engineering, a path I wasn’t excited about. Design felt different, practical, creative, and immediately rewarding. I started posting my work on Instagram. The response surprised me. What began as sharing experiments quickly turned into client projects, freelance work, and an internship opportunity. Within a year, the page grew to 10k+ followers. Towards the end of 2021, I interned at Siemens for three months, my first exposure to how design works inside a large organization. I learned a lot about process and structure, but I also realized something important: I didn’t enjoy the slow, hierarchical MNC environment. I wanted speed, ownership, and ambiguity.
Falling in love with building
2022-2023
During my final year of college, I joined Supergigs, an early-stage freelance marketplace startup, as an intern and the only designer. It was my first time building a product from scratch. I worked across flows, features, and iterations with no playbook and I loved it. This phase shaped how I think about design as a system, not just screens. Unfortunately, Supergigs shut down. Around the same time, I became inconsistent on Instagram and slowly lost momentum there, despite having crossed 23k followers. It was a reminder that reach without consistency doesn’t compound.
Real products, real impact
2024
In 2024, I joined HackerRank as an Product Design intern. New city, new environment, YC-backed company, it was a turning point. I worked on legacy products, contributed to live features, and had a real voice in the projects I owned. Seeing my work ship and get used at scale changed how I approached responsibility and quality. I couldn’t convert to a full-time role, but the experience reshaped my confidence. Soon after, I joined Traceable, stepping into a highly technical domain. It was challenging - APIs, security, infrastructure, but also deeply rewarding. With no rigid hierarchy, I worked on critical use cases and learned how design functions inside fast-moving startups.
Refinement and focus
2025
After the Traceable × Harness merger, I now work at Harness, continuing on the Traceable product. Some of the things I built earlier began to compound. Carex, a case study template I originally built in 2022, crossed 160k+ users on the Figma Community in 2025 - a reminder that useful work can grow quietly over time. This year, I also built Hexa, another case study template focused on clarity and structure, continuing my interest in helping designers communicate their work better. Alongside this, I tried building my own product using Lovable and Figma Make - it failed right after MVP. But I loved every bit of the process. This failure taught me more than polished case studies ever could. Recently, I picked up Framer, and became an official Framer Expert, a natural extension of my interest in speed, systems, and execution. I attempted to revive my Instagram presence, but growth felt forced. So I shifted focus to X, writing and sharing more consistently there.
Where I am now
I’m in a place I’m genuinely grateful for. Four years ago, I had no idea what design even was. Today, I work as a designer at a unicorn company, have built a community of 20k+ people on Insta, built a case study template that has 160K+ users, and am an official Framer Expert. None of this was mapped out. There was no master plan, just curiosity, consistency (and inconsistency), a lot of learning, and faith that everything was unfolding according to God’s plan, even when it didn’t make sense at the time. Alhamdulillah! Looking back, it feels like I was guided toward the right problems at the right time. I’m thankful for the opportunities I’ve had, the people I’ve learned from, and the failures that forced me to grow. Right now, I’m focused on working on meaningful problems, building thoughtfully, and using design to make complex things feel simpler and life a little easier for the people who use what I create.