The signs were always there. I started calligraphy in 8th standard, not because anyone asked me to. I grew up watching MAD on Pogo and pausing to recreate the techniques on paper. Sketchbooks, greeting cards, craft projects: none of it was assigned.
I went on to study Telecom Engineering at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. Useful. But somewhere between writing code at Accenture and watching design decisions get made in meetings, I realised I cared more about how things felt than how they worked under the hood.
The shift was not a single moment. It was a slow accumulation of choices, each one pulling toward design. I retrained, joined Deloitte as a UX Designer, then came to Ireland for a postgraduate degree in Design Innovation at Maynooth University.
Now I work as Design Lead at IVI, taking ideas from a brief to a prototype across health, tech, AI, fintech, and beyond. The engineering background stayed. It just changed what questions I ask first.
Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Humming along, listening on repeat, growing up on Rafi, Kishore Kumar, SPB, Rajkumar. Songs that don't date. Six months ago I started learning Hindustani classical, which turns out to be a very different thing from loving music. I'm nowhere near performing. The form demands a depth of knowledge that takes years, and I'm very much at the start of it. For now, I hum.
Mostly the food I grew up eating. I try to match my mom's cooking — her recipes are what I reach for first, and I'm still not quite there. I also try recipes from YouTube and they usually do come out right. This past year it's gotten more deliberate: down 8kg since June, building high-protein versions of things I already liked and logging them in MyFitnessPal. The best part is still when someone finishes the plate.
Over a decade of practice. Doing it live, at Porsche and Ray-Ban events with people standing and watching, is a different thing from practicing alone at a desk. You write someone's name while they wait for it. When you hand it over, the appreciation on their face is immediate. I don't think anything else I do gives feedback quite that quickly. See the work at @radiantstrokes.
Live brand events for Porsche and Ray-Ban. See more at @radiantstrokes.
Figma
FigJam
Claude
Notion
Miro
Dovetail
YouTube Music
☕Coffee