I grew up in Jaffna, in the north of Sri Lanka. My mother was a graphic designer and my father ran a business and made art, so design was part of home long before it was a job. I was using Photoshop before I was a teenager. A UX workshop at university showed me the kind of design I wanted to do: work that has to hold up for the people using it, the engineers building it and the business paying for it.
For nine years I have designed products for startups. The last four and a half have been at an AI startup. Before that I designed across a range of products, including a payments platform. I usually work from the first screens through to the design system the team keeps building on.
I also build my own Mac, iPhone and web apps through Attechy, my studio in London. Writing the code and running the releases myself means I know what a design decision costs to build, and I bring that to every team I work with.