Eras
The long version, era by era. Everything since I learned LOGO at school in Raipur: the clients, clubs, and jobs, the things I built at night, the companies I started, and the one I sold.
Era 012010 – 2018
Kid with a computer
Grew up in Raipur, opening up computers from the age of five or six. At school I became the computer teacher's apprentice and helped build the machines for the computer lab. Learned LOGO and BASIC in class, taught myself Python and C# after, and was an early Linux user.
- School:
Radiant Public School · Head Boy
Apr 2008 – Mar 2018 · 10 yrs
Apr 2008 – Mar 2018 · 10 yrs
School in Raipur. Started a weekly school newsletter, and represented the school at debates and quizzes.
- Newsletter
- Debate
- Built:
Manen
2010 – 2012
2010 – 2012
My first product: a lightweight Android browser that kept to a single tab so it ran fast on cheap phones.
- Front page of an open-source app store
- Android
- First product
- Built:
Robots
2013
2013
Learned to program ATmega8 robots at a winter workshop, then built a two-wheeled racer for an inter-school robot race.
- Won
- ATmega8
- Robotics
- Built:
Library management system
2014
2014
A couple of Python apps for school projects, then one for real: the system the school library ran on.
- Python
- Built:
HoloLens · Indie developer
2015
2015
Got one of the first official HoloLens developer accounts in India. Learned C# and .NET for it, and built for it in the emulator.
- C#
- .NET
- Mixed reality
- Design:
Game design
2015 – 2016
2015 – 2016
Where design started for me: learned Maya to model characters, environments, and props in 3D, then made a physics puzzle game for Windows in Unity and passed it around school.
- Maya
- Unity
- 3D
- Started:
The Normal Force · Founder
2017
2017
My physics era. A non-profit where a group of us students researched physics, then taught what we learned to others.
- Physics
- Research
- Teaching
- School:
Era 022018 – 2020
Kota, and the first clients
Moved to Kota for the last two years of school, and wanted money of my own, so I found my first clients on Fiverr. A design gig here and there, for fun, until it turned into regular work.
- Design:
Freelance design
2018 – now
2018 – now
Logos and identities at first, then websites and interfaces, then whole products. Dozens of clients so far.
- Branding
- Web
- Product
- School:
Aklank Public School
Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs
Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs
Finished school in Kota with high honours.
- Design:
Era 032020 – 2023
College, mostly outside class
Computer science at Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg. Most of what I learned came from clubs, hackathons, and things we built at night.
- School:
Bhilai Institute of Technology · B.Tech, Computer Science
Dec 2020 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos
Dec 2020 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos
Graduated in 2024 with an 8.9 GPA.
- Community:
Group of Code · Co-founder
Dec 2020 – 2022
Dec 2020 – 2022
An online coding community: shared resources, and help for members building their own projects.
- Design:
German automotive brands · HMI design
2021
2021
Started in my first year of college: design work for German car brands, focused on HMIs, the screens and controls inside the car.
- Automotive
- HMI
- Built:
Apr – Jun 2021 · 3 mos
Apr – Jun 2021 · 3 mos
During India's second COVID wave, helped build a site that pulled requests and offers for oxygen, hospital beds, and medicines from Twitter, so people could find help faster.
- 10,000+ visitors in week one
- Nonprofit
- Twitter API
- Design:
Back at Radiant · Design lead
Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos
Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos
Went back to my old school to redo its website, run student programs, and help organise conferences.
- Web
- Events
- Community:
IEEE BIT Durg · Branch secretary
Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr
Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr
Ran events and communications for the college's IEEE student branch.
- Built:
Oct – Nov 2021 · 2 mos
Oct – Nov 2021 · 2 mos
An Arduino farming system, built with friends: sensors that read soil health and predict how crops will grow.
- Arduino
- Sensors
- Camera:
Aug 2022 – now · 4 yrs 3 mos
Aug 2022 – now · 4 yrs 3 mos
Started on the video team at Smart India Hackathon. These days I shoot across disciplines: dance and concerts, portraits, markets, cars, and streets after dark.
- Performance
- Portrait
- Street
- Automotive
- Community:
GDSC BITD · UI/UX lead
Aug 2022 – Apr 2023 · 9 mos
Aug 2022 – Apr 2023 · 9 mos
Designed student projects for the Google Developer Student Club, ran design workshops, and mentored teams.
- Workshops
- Mentoring
- Built:
Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 8 mos
Nov 2022 – Jun 2023 · 8 mos
Students submit code for a problem and see it scored, visualised, and ranked against everyone else's, so they learn from the comparison.
- Education
- Full-stack
- Community:
OpinHacks · Organiser, design lead
2023
2023
A student hackathon. We were the first to bring a lot of companies into India's hackathon culture and get them investing in it, and I designed its website and everything around it.
- One of India's biggest hackathons of 2023
- Events
- Sponsors
- Web
- School:
Era 042023
The year everything overlapped
My first stretch designing inside companies shipping real things, often several at once: an electric SUV, a news platform, a brand in France.
- Built:
Hoctor · Product design lead
Apr – Dec 2023 · 9 mos
Apr – Dec 2023 · 9 mos
Indoor tracking without special hardware: Wi-Fi access points and phones locate people and equipment.
- Wi-Fi
- Indoor positioning
- Design:
Pravaig Dynamics · Senior UI/UX designer
Jun – Oct 2023 · 5 mos
Jun – Oct 2023 · 5 mos
Grew into the de facto design head, and represented the company: its defence presentations and the G20 showcase. Designed the in-car interface for the DEFY electric SUV, the design system, and Azad Mobility's brand and site.
- EV
- HMI
- Defence
- Design systems
- Design:
Kutniti Watch · Senior product designer
Jul – Oct 2023 · 4 mos
Jul – Oct 2023 · 4 mos
A platform that makes geopolitics, and how the world's news feels about it, readable.
- Data viz
- News
- Design:
Noyatech · Founding designer
Aug 2023 – Feb 2024 · 7 mos
Aug 2023 – Feb 2024 · 7 mos
A company in Nantes, France: the name, logo, packaging, cutlery line, website, and store, from a blank page.
- Naming
- Packaging
- E-commerce
- Built:
Era 052024 – 2025
Starting my own
At some point I stopped wanting to only build other people's ideas.
- Started:
Ozdec · Co-founder, CEO
Feb – Jun 2024 · 5 mos
Feb – Jun 2024 · 5 mos
An AI email client that sorts, summarises, and automates your inbox. I ran product, design, and the AI.
- Sold
- AI
- Design:
Gaamya · Strategy and design lead
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · 6 mos
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · 6 mos
An ethnic clothing brand from Rajasthan and Delhi, now reaching international markets. Built the brand, brought in investment and strategic partners, and ran its legal and logistics.
- Fashion
- Brand
- Fundraising
- Legal
- Design:
Astralux · Lead UX designer
Aug 2024 – Jun 2025 · 11 mos
Aug 2024 – Jun 2025 · 11 mos
A luxury lighting company: the website, a custom CMS, and interactive 3D product stories.
- Luxury
- 3D
- Started:
Odstat · Founder
Jan 2025 – 2026
Jan 2025 – 2026
Explains why a stock moved, not just that it did: a graph of the events, policy, peers, and supply chains behind it. Built it end to end, and alongside it managed close to $10 million for families, with full control over how it was invested, and grew it for them.
- Top 5 at ZeroBase Demo Day
- ~$10M managed
- Finance
- AI
- Full-stack
- Design:
Intozi · Design and fundraising consultant
Oct 2025 – Feb 2026 · 5 mos
Oct 2025 – Feb 2026 · 5 mos
Ikshana 2.0, an enterprise video-intelligence platform: flow builders for cameras and alerts, dashboards, and a design system. Also helped the company raise funding.
- Computer vision
- Enterprise
- Fundraising
Also: looked into escrow banking, explored Odver (a contract and escrow platform for business deals), and facilitated escrow for a couple of organisations.
- Started:
Era 062026 – now
SuperNerves, and everything at once
A research lab for machine taste, a venture studio, launch films, and whatever I'm building overnight.
- Camera:
Feb 2026 – now · 9 mos
Feb 2026 – now · 9 mos
Shot, directed, or cut launch films for Result, The Founding Co., Artemis, Aquin, and Gaamya.
- 100K+ views
- Direction
- DoP
- Edit
- Started:
The Founding Co. · Co-founder
Apr 2026 – now · 7 mos
Apr 2026 – now · 7 mos
A venture studio, now one of Hyderabad's best. The first cohort was a residency: 12 founders in one house for 90 days, weekly demos, a Grand Demo Day, then The Assembly in September. The second is being planned.
- Venture studio
- Residency
- Brand
- Started:
SuperNerves · Founder
May 2026 – now · 6 mos
May 2026 – now · 6 mos
The research lab for machine taste: teaching models to judge design and creative work the way a trained eye does, and to explain what they see. Research since May, full-time since October.
- AI research
- Machine taste
- Built:
Overnight projects
May 2026 – now · 6 mos
May 2026 – now · 6 mos
Small open-source tools for the devices I use: DuoLid, Custom Glyph, SpotiPair, CardGrab, CronaDB, and more.
- macOS
- Android
- Rust
- Design:
Tempura
Aug – Sep 2026 · 2 mos
Aug – Sep 2026 · 2 mos
Brand identity, onboarding, website, and Mura the mascot, for an AI dataset company.
- Brand
- Mascot
- Built:
Draw · At SuperNerves
Sep 2026 – now · 2 mos
Sep 2026 – now · 2 mos
In the works: an open-source canvas that makes an AI's context, memory, and reasoning visible, so you can steer it.
- Open source
- Canvas
- Built:
Gradepot · At SuperNerves
Oct 2026 – now · 1 mo
Oct 2026 – now · 1 mo
Colour-science research into AI grading that knows your camera, explains its choices, and goes further than a LUT.
- Colour science
- Research
Also explored: Motif (a harness for directing AI work), Appear (a filmmaking workflow), and Affecta (therapy notes).
- Camera:
Era 07 · Soon
To be continued