Resume
10+ years of experience in designing and managing digital products which have touched 100m+ people.
Worked in multiple sectors like Public health (Wadhwani AI & Vihara), Fintech (TradeX Markets), livelihood (Enable India & Azad foundation) & Mental Health (Pagal Hai kya).
I have been working with organisations that work for social impact since I believe people can change the world together.
I don't want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.
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Frank Costello, The Departed
Work Experience
As part of a technology company developing AI solutions for Indian government in multiple areas, I worked on 2 products in the Public Health space.
​1. Outbreak Monitoring tool using media news
An AI powered disease surveillance tool collecting data from millions of
news sources and giving real time nationwide early warning signals to prevent Disease Outbreaks Product
2. Smart form for Patient health data collection
A chatbot (in future) to help Community workers collect Patient Health information in a structured manner which is used by medical doctors to suggest diagnosis remotely.
A young mental health community led by Indian youth with lived experiences of mental health challenges.
TradeX is a YC company, designed as stock exchange to bet on outcome of future events like number of covid cases, inflation rate or the next president.
I joined TradeX as the 1st designer and helped them ship & iterate mobile app, used by more than 100k users doing $5m+ monthly trading volume.
Conducted User and Market research for LookOut App. An intelligent assistant for blind people to navigating the world
Researched and designed voice based Q/A platform service for rural Indian youth
Developed a course curriculum for a workshop to teach Post Graduate Design students about applying Systems Thinking to the work that they would do, as Service designers in India.
Conducted Feasibility market study for Azad foundation to explore Home painting as a business vertical for women for lower socio economic background in Delhi and nearby region.
Duration
Mar’22-May’24
Team Size
7 members
Role
Product owner,
Designer & Researcher
Company
Wadhwani AI
Client
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, India
Duration
Nov ’20-Mar’22
Team Size
5 members
Role
Action based Researcher
Company
Pagal Hai Kya
Duration
Feb’21-Sep’21
Team Size
4 members
Role
User researcher
Company
Enable India
Client
Duration
Feb’20-Feb’20
Team Size: 1
Role
Systems Design Workshop - Visiting Faculty
Company
Srishti Institute of Art, Design
& Technology
Duration
Sep ’19-Jan’20
Team Size
4 members
Role
Service Designer
Company
Azad Foundation
Duration
May ’19-Oct’19
Team Size
4 members
Role
Design Researcher
Company
Vihara Innovation Studio
Client
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Designed a service around Livelihood opportunities for Employees with disability and Employers that helped secure 3 cr INR funding from Accenture.
Designed App & website that allowed pet adoption and subscription service for your pet’s needs
Created a service model and tools for field workers to help young adolescent girls identify their aspirations
Created modern furniture designs and developed the branding and other visual communication materials.
An independent project to create Robotics for children. As a freelance product consultant on the project, I have been involved in researching, conceptualising and prototyping robotic devices based on simple electronic concepts; story and character generation around the robot; and content creation for session based learning.
Duration
Jun’10- Oct’12
Role
Product Consultant
Company
NetIIT
Created tools for differentiated care for Community health workers using research, developed prototypes and conducted product testing before handing it to CARE India for implementation under after client approval.
Education
2015 - 2017
Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology | Master’s Products, system & Service design
This course focussed on teaching us how to build business models centred around user needs. All our projects were catered towards end to end service as an outcome.
2008 - 2012
NIFT, New Delhi | Bachelor's Degree in Lifestyle product design
Introduction to the world of design and the foundations of a good product design. Form, function and the way you tell the story.