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A village boy

I belong to a tiny village – Mishriwala in Punjab, India – where I was born and raised in a simple farming family. At a young age, I used to do fabric painting and draw brand logos to perfection. My creativity and curiosity comes from my mother.

Self-taught

In 2001, I designed my first website using Microsoft FrontPage. While getting started in design in 2007, I contacted a Yahoo designer who referred books and designers to learn from. I read more books in six months after college than during my whole school years.

Engineer turned designer

After completing my B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, I started learning design on my own. Instead of joining Wipro technologies where I got placed during college, I opted for a freelance design career and never looked back.

And then a unicorn

As a freelancer, I designed almost everything: apps, websites, blogs, logos, brochures, business cards, pitch decks, posters, calendars, ads, and stickers. Later, I built a design system, developed a front-end architecture, created style guides and onboarding videos.

Bedroom startup gets acquired

After leading design at PopSurvey, CitizenLocal, and Pixoto and doing projects with Intel, Zomato, and Grasshopper, I joined Unmetric full-time in 2013. Prior to that, I was working on contract basis with Unmetric from day one, when our CEO was operating from his house in Chennai.

From 2010 till 2020, I led the design at Unmetric, did hands-on work to design three core products, website, blog, collateral, front-end architecture, and design system. Cision/Falcon acquired Unmetric in October 2019.

The story continues

There is so much more to learn and do. I’m blessed and I have so much to be grateful for. My goal in life is to learn, share, care, and become a better person than I was yesterday.