Visionary, builder, and product leader.

The Hoop Foundation is a non-profit organization I founded with the mission of empowering underprivileged children through education, creativity, and opportunity. Our goal is to provide education to the poorest of the poor elementary children in India, particularly those living in the slums, by leveraging both live and pre-recorded remote teaching methods alongside AI-powered learning agents. The long-term vision is to meet national curriculum needs for children K through 12, supporting their college and career goals entirely free of cost.

Our first initiative was held in India, where we successfully assisted over 200 underserved students by providing custom educational materials and treats, helping make learning more engaging and accessible. This effort marked the foundation’s first step toward creating lasting impact at the grassroots level.

Beyond this, The Hoop Foundation continues to build partnerships, recruit volunteers, and lay the groundwork for broader programs, including future 501(c) registration in the United States and NGO registration in India. The journey has taught me the importance of combining entrepreneurial drive with compassion, and how education can be one of the most powerful tools for change.

Veera is a lifestyle and apparel venture built around the idea of combining premium design with cultural representation. The brand’s vision focused on creating workout and athleisure wear that felt both high-quality and expressive, especially for audiences often overlooked in mainstream activewear.

The journey involved developing the brand identity, experimenting with materials, and designing a digital-first experience. The website was crafted with a sleek “liquid glass” interface to reflect the modern, elevated feel of the brand, while the product design emphasized comfort, durability, and style.

Through research and early feedback, Veera reinforced the importance of balancing aesthetics with functionality. Customers valued clean, minimal designs with subtle accents over bold, cluttered patterns. The project highlighted how thoughtful branding, user-friendly digital experiences, and well-crafted products can create a sense of pride and representation in everyday wear.

Alphawave Technologies was a three-year wearable devices venture exploring the future of smart footwear. The vision began with shoes that could display images and short videos through flexible OLED screens, but through six iterations of prototypes and over 100 customer interviews, the product evolved toward a more practical, market-aligned design: footwear capable of shifting between multiple static colors and patterns, controlled by a mobile app.

Across the journey, we learned how to build shoes and wearables from the ground up — taking a concept from barebones MVP to a market-ready product. Customer research revealed strong preferences for lower-cost shoes with multiple style options, and for premium footwear that leaned on designer-driven aesthetics. App testing further reinforced the value of simplicity: users favored neutral tones, straightforward navigation, and minimal complexity.

These insights guided the final product direction — shifting from dynamic displays to cost-effective static styles — and shaped our broader approach to wearable tech, product design, and customer-driven development.

SuperStar was a social media app venture developed over the course of a year, designed to let anyone create and share short films directly from a smartphone. The vision was to give creators a platform for episodic storytelling — a “Netflix for creators” — that democratized film production and distribution.

Throughout development, we engaged with digital creators and actors to test the concept and app features. While the editing tools showed promise, feedback revealed that the short-film creation process was still too complex for a mobile app to simplify, and many creators preferred professional equipment. Market insights also showed that the audience for such a platform was limited at the time, with the broader community not yet ready for this type of product.

Despite these challenges, the venture demonstrated valuable lessons in understanding creator needs, market timing, and product feasibility. The concept remains ahead of its time, with potential to succeed as technology advances and user behavior evolves.

YoungPreneurs was my first design project and second venture, created to connect startup founders, co-founders, and early investors through a dedicated mobile platform. The goal was to make it easier for entrepreneurs to find essential collaborators and initial funding, with a long-term vision of expanding the network to include venture capitalists and broader startup support.

Building YoungPreneurs offered early lessons in both product design and the startup ecosystem. The project emphasized the challenges founders face when seeking co-founders and funding, and highlighted how critical usability is when designing a platform for networking.

Through the process, I gained insights into the importance of community, relationship-building, and streamlined user experiences — lessons that continue to shape how I approach product design and venture creation today.

Provaloh was my very first venture experience — a virtual trial room app designed to let users try on clothes digitally before making a purchase. The concept aimed to blend fashion with technology, reducing the uncertainty of online shopping while improving customer confidence in their choices.

To bring this vision to life, I built and led a team of 10 people across engineering, marketing, business, and design. Together, we explored how to merge technical feasibility with customer needs while experimenting with different approaches to user experience and product delivery.

As my first exposure to building a venture, Provaloh provided invaluable lessons in leadership, collaboration, and the fundamentals of product development. It showed me how bold ideas can spark new possibilities, and how execution and teamwork are key to turning vision into reality.