UX Researcher and Designer, Pine Labs  (Credit+) Nov 2025 – Present

• Contributing to UX design for issuing tools, including the Fraud Risk Management (FRM) console powered by a Business Rules Engine (BRE) to configure and automate risk/fraud decisions, within a platform serving 988K merchants and 177 financial institutions.

• Partnering cross-functionally with engineering and leadership (sole designer) to translate requirements into flows, wireframes, prototypes, and build-ready specs, improving usability and operational clarity. Also building reusable design system components for a nascent to improve consistency and speed up design-to-dev delivery across issuing tools.

• Leading product strategy for a bank-facing insights dashboard within Credit+ to surface customer spend behavior (merchant/category patterns) and connect insights to issuance and credit decisioning actions; across a network processing 1.9B transactions across South Asia.

• Conducting research on card management systems (CMS) and bank workflows; writing user stories and acceptance criteria for Credit+ capabilities including Credit Line on UPI enablement.

Project Trainee, Tavant Technologies (UI Team) Sep 2025 – Nov 2025

• Contributed to user research, journey mapping, wireframing, and usability testing to support the design of enterprise-scale solutions in the lending, retail, and media domains. Partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver user-centered product experiences.

• Conducted audits and heuristic evaluations for existing tools, implemented conditional logic and variables to create reusable components for the Design System using the output of the audits. Additionally, set up variables to aid development for whitelabeling purposes for multiple enterprise level B2B tools.

• Explored using AI tools for rapid prototyping, conducted sessions to help teams understand how to prompt and implement AI tools, improving turn around time for designs by 60%.

UI/UX Designer (Contract) ,Tvara Aug 2025 – Sept 2025

• Built the foundational design system and AI workflow interfaces, ensuring consistent and scalable UX. Conducted usability testing, user flow analysis, and journey mapping, improving product consistency and adoption.

• Partnered with founders to define product roadmaps, aligning insights from market research and user data with organizational objectives. Used Figma AI and Framer to accelerate prototyping, collaboration, and content creation.

UI/UX Designer, Wolters Kluwer Sep 2024 – June 2025

• Redesigned operational tools by synthesizing user and stakeholder insights streamlining workflows across licensing, ownership, and compliance platforms introducing AI capabilities to compliance legacy tools. 

• Prototyped an AI Insurance Assistant, integrating 50K+ legal citations into a query-based research tool currently in preview with 5 insurance platforms; conducted usability testing and insight visualization using Power BI.

• Delivered usability feedback that improved layout, navigation, and task flows for the WK Business Licensing Tool.

• Researched and contributed to the company’s foundational AI-integrated design system, driving scalable UI standards and produced developer-ready features with redlines and annotations for handoff and stakeholder alignment during cross-functional reviews.

Director of Product Design, Google Developer Student Club, UC Davis. Sep 2023 - Jun 2024

• Conducted UX research for investor and customer facing web pages and created website prototypes for TerraAI, a series B start-up working on creating AI detection tools for the mining industry, ensured wireframe alignment for users.

• Collaborated with 20+ student developer teams on cohort projects, providing design expertise and guidance that contributed to the successful completion of 20 impactful initiatives across edtech, finance and productivity sectors.

President, Cognitive Science Student Association @ UC Davis May 2023 - Jun 2024

• Led a 12-person executive board while engaging a community of 500+ members and transformed team productivity by implementing a comprehensive Notion and Slack workflow system, increasing funding outcomes by 83%. 

• Inaugurated the annual Cognitive Science Conference at UC Davis—invited 14 speakers, managed 200+ attendees, hosted a poster symposium showcasing novel student research, and achieved 12% growth in attendance the following year.

• Organized 50+ career development and professional events, received program recognition for bridging communication gaps between students and faculty, by introducing quarterly student-faculty discussions.

Design Fellowship, Design Interactive Apr 2022 - Sep 2023

• Redesigned Hinge, Instagram, and Canvas (learning platform) apps in collaboration with 4 other designers to enhance usability, engagement and accessibility using human-centered design principles over six weeks cohort sessions. 

• Conducted user research and testing to identify pain points and propose data-driven solutions; won ‘Most Innovative Design’ at Spring '22 Fellowship against 30+ teams for Hinge redesign, validated by Match Group professional.

Research Assistant, University of California, Davis Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

• Parsed social media content on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok and their underlying recommender algorithms.

• Collected data and measured significant emotional information transfer from users to algorithms across 365 videos.

• Quantified how joy contributes to polarization while sadness/fear promote emotional convergence using transfer entropy.

• Applied computational-experimental methods with 73 participants to analyze human-algorithm emotional exchanges.

Cashier, University of California, Davis Jan 2023 - May 2023

• Worked as a cashier at UC Davis Coffee House, a primarily student-run food and beverage location serving the UC Davis community since 1968.

Conference Coordinator, Cognitive Science Student Association @ UC Davis Sep 2022 - May 2023

• Spearheaded the organization for the 1st yearly UC Davis Cognitive Science Conference.

• Managed fundraising efforts.

• Curated the design and marketing guide for the conference.

• Planned and curated social media posts.

• Managed outreach to speakers from various fields and organized activities for speakers and 200 attendees.

Orientation Leader, University of California, Davis Sep 2021 - Sep 2021

• Guided and supported incoming students during their transition to university life.

• Facilitated orientation sessions and activities to ensure a smooth and positive introduction to the UC Davis community.

• Built strong connections and friendships among new students, fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment.

Front Desk/HR Intern, Hilton Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

• Interned as a front desk/HR intern with Hilton Doha.