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HTC Vive
- Senior XR Design Technologist | 6/2024 - Present
Prototyping next generation of hardware-software experiences for XR products.
Experimenting and defining UX paradigms for AI-based product offerings.
Leading prompt engineering efforts and integration of design with engineering during product development.
Exploring differentiable hardware-software opportunities for wearables.
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Lumen World
- Co Founder and CTO | 5/2021 - 12/2023
Co founded a company that aims to create shared and human-centered experiences in XR.
Prototyped and built the first AR flashlight for the metaverse.
Heading the hardware and supporting software product development efforts through the lens of interaction design.
User research, customer discovery, fund raising and everthing else needed to push a product into the market.
Senseless World
- Co Founder and Creative Technologist | 1/2019 - 4/2021
Co founded a design and art collective with three other interaction designers.
Experimenting on immersive experiences that augment our senses through playful applications of emerging technologies.
Responsible for blending together design and technology through experience prototyping and functional prototyping.
User research, co creation and testing with stakeholders.
Above Agency
- Creative Technologist | 5/2018 - 5/2021
Creative technologist & interaction designer at one of Sweden's leading design agencies.
Leading multidisciplinary project teams through futurecasting, people-centred research and exploratory prototyping.
Responsible for blending together design and technology through projects, people and culture.
Experimenting with the boundaries between the physical and digital through playful interactions and immersive experiences.
DIY Hacking
(Maker.pro) - Founder | 7/2014 - Present
Partnered with the Kerala Govt to distribute
10,000 Raspberry Pi
kits to school students and hosted workshops accross the state.
Got featured on
Techcrunch
for an open source head mounted display project.
Founded
DIY hacking
, a platform to share open source projects and tutorials - having monthly visitors of 100,000.
Authored:
How to be a Maker!
for students to learn rapid prototyping using open source hardware.
Conducted technical workshops at more than 40 colleges around India.
Authored several project tutorials through
“DIY Hacking”
, to inspire students through tech.
Hosted technical workshops for companies like: Infosys, IBM, Amdocs, etc.
Kerala Government
- Technology Innovation Fellow | 7/2015 - 8/2016
Helped setup a Makerspace in Cochin University and several other institutions.
Assisted in setting up a Fab Lab from MIT in Cochin, Kerala.
Mentoring and guiding several projects by students and start ups.
Trained through MIT's Fab Academy on using rapid prototyping tools and machines.
Conducted tech workshops at several schools and colleges accross the state.
Hosted community meetups for student makers to support them through the Fab Lab.
Fin Robotics
- CTO | 4/2013 - 4/2014
Initial prototyping for “Fin” (a bluetooth enabled smart wearable ring).
Designed the core technology around the wearable.
Presented the prototype at the Techcrunch
Hardware Battlefield
for the Consumer Electronics Show 2014, Las Vegas.
Contributed to raising 200,000$ crowd-funding goal for the product on
Indiegogo
.
ARS Devices
- Founder | 11/2011 - 3/2013
Prototyped and attempted to commercialise
RideSmart
, a car automation application while in undergrad school, 2012.
Partnered with
Blackberry
to showcase RideSmart at global events.
Experimented with wearable technology, home automation, car automation, etc.
Among five selected
student entrepreneurs
from the state to interact with influential companies like: Google, DropBox and Twitter in Silicon Valley.
Featured on Techcrunch, BBC World News, Yahoo News, Deccan Chronicle, etc.