Hi, I'm Neel!
In college, that meant testing an underwater vehicle in a pool. These days, it’s products at Jio and a little desk cube I’m building called NudgeQ.
There’s usually some origami on the desk too.
01 / THE ENGINEERING INSTINCT · VIT
Electronics, code, mechanisms. I loved the moment an idea stopped being a sketch and started doing something in the world.
For my engineering thesis, I built an automatic pill dispenser for elderly people. I had worked out the electronics, the mechanism, the automation.
02 / THE PERSON ON THE OTHER SIDE
That pill dispenser taught me that functionality alone doesn't make something good. It pulled me toward Interaction Design at IIT Hyderabad.
The question became: how does this feel, respond, and make sense to someone else?
Inputs. Mechanisms. Outputs. Getting the system to respond.
03 / RELIANCE JIO · QUICKHIRE
REAL PEOPLE. REAL OPERATIONS.QuickHire brought that thinking into off-roll recruitment across 6,000+ Jio locations. I started with the candidate experience, simplifying an intake flow from roughly 140 inputs to 30.
After launch, I moved into day-to-day product management: requirements, engineering delivery, operational issues, and the decisions that keep a product useful.
Read the full QuickHire story ↗
These are observed improvements in the QuickHire workflow after launch and through subsequent releases; they reflect the wider product, engineering, and operations teams’ work. Monthly joining throughput compares Q1 with July–August, while average RTO → DOJ turnaround compares December with August.
“0→1 proves something can exist.
1→10 proves it can survive.”LESSONS FROM WORKING WITH REAL SYSTEMS
04 / INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTS · 2026
Two separate projects. One question that kept changing.
SIFT / FINDING A STARTING POINT
I built SIFT to turn a tangled thought into something actionable. A voice-first AI product around overthinking, task friction, and finding the next step.
Independent software experiment · launched June 2026
Explore SIFT ↗THE CONTRADICTION
Early use and feedback exposed a tension: in an already overloaded moment, opening a phone, explaining the problem, and reading an answer could become more work.
What if the phone itself was part of the friction?
NUDGEQ / CHANGING THE MEDIUM
A physical desk cube. A circular display. A rotary input. An experiment in making the next action small enough to begin.
Speak. Turn. Choose. Move.
Working hardware exploration, not a claim of proven behavioural efficacy. The object here is an interactive preview.
Explore NudgeQ ↗Try the full Motion Lab ↗
Less information.
More interaction.STILL MAKING. STILL TESTING.
05 / A THREAD I NOTICED LOOKING BACK
My M.Des thesis at IIT Hyderabad explored tangible and embodied interaction: using a smartphone's sensors and physical movement to control an Unreal Engine experience.
Different project. Same recurring curiosity about what happens when the body becomes part of the interface.
06 / CURIOSITY DOESN'T FOLLOW A STRAIGHT LINE
CHECK-IN ↗A QR-based loyalty MVP led to merchant conversations—and a sharper question about merchant-controlled memberships, initially explored with salons. Building the product was only part of finding the right problem.
The product thinking behind Check-in ↗
XR4U ↗XR4U brought spatial technology into an education and workshop context. Another way to explore how people encounter unfamiliar tools, learn by doing, and find possibilities of their own.
Explore XR4U ↗07 / THE REST DOESN'T FIT INTO A JOB TITLE
Some become products. Some are just a good way to spend an afternoon.
Pick up a memory.
