Career Profile

Worked with low level and backend coding languages like Assembly, C as well as frontend web development and web performance measurement and optimization. Learning and been working in User Experience and Interaction Design now. This enables me to understand and solve a problem from different aspects and develop a product from brainstorming to prototyping and design to development and analytics. Currently enrolled in masters program to learn more about new media and design. One of my main interests is to understand human emotions through technology and design.

Experiences

UX Engineer

12/2016 - 04/2017

Collaborating with a team to create an interactive and dynamic web based dashboard for a smart lighting solution. My role is part-time to prototype and test user experience and interface design along with frontend coding using AWS Lambda and S3 to create a server-less architecture. The solution includes features such as energy saving, predictive lighting and more.

Interaction Design Intern

08/2015 - 10/2015

Researched and prototyped a website about sustainability in web design. Interviewed client and wireframed a new project.

Design Intern

03/2015 - 05/2015

Research, wireframing and architecture for Rasta’s website. Worked on web, print design, social media, mobile app prototyping for various clients including Delhi Daredevils and UHG.

Quality Assurance Engineer

07/2013 - 08/2014

Tested web and mobile applications for functional and usability bugs. Wrote code to maintain web performance using PhantomJS and did extensive improvements to Redfin's web application loading performance. Wrote automation scripts using Selenium. Managed application release cycle. Mentored an intern.

Software Development Engineer in Test Intern

05/2012 - 07/2012

Setup the object model for the PowerPoint web app in C# for a new automation framework to enable testing on different browsers across 5 operating systems. Engineered an automation system for basic and feature verification testing of the PowerPoint web app in C#. Performed feature testing on the PowerPoint web app and logged various critical bugs.

IT Intern

06/2011 - 08/2011

Designed and deployed a mobile application on Java ME platform for mobile banking. Implemented the backend system using Java Servlet with XML parsing, integrated with a MySQL database using Hibernate and JDBC. The system was hosted on Apache Tomcat and Oracle Glassfish.

Projects

Spotify Tangible Interface - Interface to physicalize Spotify music listening experience using MYO gesture band and an interface made using pressure sensitive, position tracking material and Arduino.
Stress Monitor Wearable - Prototype to measure stress level using skin conductivity and heart rate, and display it on a digital LED band.
Emotions in Speech - Application made using Pure Data, takes human speech as input, analyze ssound properties and displays detected emotion on graphical output. Implemented using Machine Learning tool.
Be Kind - Ideated, prototyped and did user testing for a social media based iOS app to inspire doing good activities.
Gesture Glove - A glove with copper strips inside it connected with an Arduino microcontroller to recognize hand gestures. Then linked with Spotify API.
Clear Image - Photography app which removes moving objects from the frame. Coded in Processing by taking multiple photos and applying median filtering to them.

Skills & Proficiency

Python, Java, C

Javascript

HTML5 & CSS

Git

Sketch & Photoshop

Arduino & Electronics