Industrial Design Engineer (Contractor) - Intuitive Surgical
(2025-02 - 2026-03)
ION Endoluminal System — robotic bronchoscopy
- Leadership: Directed concept development for next-generation surgical hardware within a multidisciplinary R&D organization — setting design direction, prioritizing prototyping investments, and building consensus across engineering, product management, and human factors without formal management authority.
- Problem Solving: Built and tested proof-of-concept prototypes to systematically evaluate reach envelopes, workflow integration, form factors, and user interaction patterns prior to CAD commitment — de-risking engineering investment and enabling evidence-based design decisions in a regulated development environment.
- Teamwork: Operated as the embedded design voice in a predominantly engineering-driven R&D team; facilitated structured design reviews and translated ergonomic and usability requirements into shared engineering constraints across disciplines.
- Communication: Authored structured design rationale and product requirement documentation; translated clinical insights and human factors findings into hardware constraints legible to engineering stakeholders, accelerating alignment across design iterations.
Industrial Design Intern - Frontier Bio
(2019-01 - 2020-12)
- Leadership: Owned the entire industrial design program for the company's first bioprinter — from concept generation and form-factor development to product visualization — operating as the sole designer on a novel deep-tech platform with no established precedent.
- Creativity: Established the product's design language and visual identity from scratch, defining how a category-creating technology would be perceived by investors, partners, and prospective customers before any product existed in the market.
- Communication: Created product concepts and visual assets that directly supported Frontier Bio's initial financing activities, contributing to the company's first funding round — demonstrating the role of design communication in early-stage business development.
- Problem Solving: Navigated first-principles hardware constraints for a novel bioprinting platform with no existing product precedent, no established visual language, and no vendor ecosystem — developing form and function simultaneously under deep technical ambiguity.
Industrial Design Consultant - Circuit Launch - Oakland, CA
(2020-01 - 2020-12)
- Leadership: Led UX strategy for Circuit Launch's Monty robotic barista platform; facilitated design-thinking workshops for the hardware incubator's engineering-driven community, introducing human-centered design practice to cross-disciplinary hardware teams at the organizational level.
- Problem Solving + Creativity: Designed the industrial design vision and market positioning for Root Applied Sciences' early-stage pathogen detection device — establishing product form, visual language, and brand narrative for an emerging biotech platform pre-launch.
- Teamwork: Collaborated across two simultaneous engagements — a robotics startup and a biotech diagnostics company — integrating into engineering-first teams and building shared design frameworks where none existed.
Industrial Design Intern - Lenart Studio
(2024-01 - 2024-12)
- Problem Solving + Teamwork: Developed next-generation scanner concepts for Datalogic's Magellan product line, balancing high-volume retail ergonomics, optical system constraints, and commercial aesthetics alongside the principal designer; one resulting concept, the Magellan 3600VSi, entered commercial production in 2024.
- Communication: Produced detailed visualizations, renderings, and concept illustrations for client-facing design reviews, supporting design decisions and stakeholder alignment across the client relationship.
Industrial Design Intern - Bevi
(2023-01 - 2023-12)
- Communication + Teamwork: Conducted user and stakeholder research, synthesizing findings into journey maps, storyboards, and design concepts used across cross-functional teams to communicate product opportunities and support decision-making.
- Problem Solving: Performed competitive benchmarking and concept exploration to evaluate future product directions, identifying usability challenges and framing design opportunities for the product and engineering roadmap.
CAD Sculptor - Tata Elxsi - Bangalore, India
(2014-01 - 2015-12)
3D Artist - Foley Design - Bangalore, India
(2015-01 - 2016-12)
