About
About Me.
17 years of building the seam between design and systems
I'm a UX Engineer who's spent most of my career living in the seam between interfaces and the systems behind them. Right now I'm at Google's Ads Central UX team in Bengaluru, building agentic AI tooling: data pipelines, multi-step agents on the Agent Development Kit, Gemini for reasoning, and A2A/A2UI for how agents collaborate and talk to people. Before that I led frontend work at Google for AUDI Hub, Duplex for Web, and a handful of Assistant launches; before Google, I shipped a lot of Drupal, scaled engineering teams, and rebuilt large content systems.
Frontend engineer · Full-stack developer
Bengaluru · Working at Google
My Journey
How I got here.
I studied Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology and started building websites before I graduated. The early ones were rough, but they hooked me on the gap between what software can do and what people can actually use. I've been working in that gap ever since.
The 17+ years since have run through a small consultancy, a travel company at scale, enterprise services, five years at Acquia, and Google since 2019. Startups taught me speed, enterprises taught me scale, and both taught me that the hardest problems are usually people problems.
Education
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology (2005-2009)
Career Highlights
UX Engineer
2019-Present
Senior Technical Architect
Acquia
2014-2019
Deputy Manager
MakeMyTrip
2013-2014
Deputy Manager
HCL Technologies
2011-2013
Full-Stack Developer
Directi
2010-2011
Web Developer
Blisstering Solutions
2008-2010
My Philosophy
How I think about the work.
Users before demos
The demo is the easy part. The product is the thousand small defaults underneath it, and each one is a chance to make someone's day slightly better or slightly worse. I sweat those.
Stay a beginner at something
My stack has turned over completely three times: Drupal, then React, now agents. The durable skill is learning the next thing without drama, and I try to keep it in practice.
Teams ship, not individuals
The best code I ever wrote mattered less than the reviews, standards, and trust of the teams around it. I optimise for the group, because that is what actually ships.
My Mission
“Make the complicated thing feel obvious. The pipelines, the agents, the interfaces: all of it exists so the person on the other side can do their work without having to think about mine.”
Capabilities
What I Bring to the Table.
Technical Expertise
Agentic AI
Agent Development Kit (ADK), Gemini API, A2A, A2UI, multi-agent orchestration, retrieval & synthesis pipelines
Frontend Development
React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Next.js, HTML5, CSS3
Backend & Data
Node.js, Python, Drupal, PHP, RESTful APIs, ETL & ingestion pipelines
Cloud & DevOps
Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Docker, Jenkins
Team Leadership
Project Management, Technical Mentoring, Architecture Design
Leadership & Impact
Team Management
Led and mentored teams of 15+ developers across frontend, backend, and QA functions.
Scaling Organizations
Established an offshore engineering center at Acquia and helped scale it from 0 to 200 employees in 4 years.
Revenue Impact
Led platform rebuilds and client projects tied to an estimated $1+ billion USD in revenue.
User Impact
Built applications serving millions of daily users across Google, MakeMyTrip, and other platforms.
Off the clock
Beyond the Code.
Drawing & Painting
Mostly pencil and watercolour. It is the one place in my life without an undo button, which is exactly why I keep at it.
Photography
Street and travel photography, usually chasing the early light around Bengaluru with too many lenses and not enough time.
PC Gaming
A well-built game is still the best interface education I know. Also, it is fun, and that is reason enough.
Open Source
Fifteen years in the Drupal community as a module co-maintainer and occasional core contributor. The habit stuck.
Life in Bengaluru
Bengaluru has the best weather in India and traffic that makes you earn it. When I'm not working you'll find me in the city's galleries and cafes, or at a local tech meetup arguing happily about frameworks.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Get in touch
Let's Connect & Create.
If you want to collaborate on a project, compare notes on technology, or just say hello, I'd like to hear from you.
Professional Collaboration
Projects with a hard problem at the centre, especially where AI meets interface work
Knowledge Sharing
Talks, podcasts, and honest conversations about what actually works in production
Mentoring
Helping engineers grow into senior and leadership roles, the way others once helped me