From sketch to certification.

I'm an industrial designer and co-founder with ten years of design practice and six years inside a startup.

My work runs along one line: transit hardware at Ridlr, where QR ticketing had to disappear into fare gates never built for it; a gold-loan kiosk at Rupeek, where the interaction had to be legible to someone who had never used one; and Navya at Astro Motors — an electric cargo three-wheeler taken from a local fabricator's shed to ICAT certification.

At Astro Motors I wore many hats: testing, vendor sourcing, frugal innovation, raising capital, vehicle certification, manufacturing, QC SOPs, service guides, and building the teams that do all of it. I hold a patent on a multi-gear manual transmission for EV and spoke at the Drive Electric Expo in 2022.