The life behind the work.

I'm Gautam, and I've always worked at the intersection of design, business, and technology. It started in college, where I ran my own creative agency for 30-plus clients across India while finishing a degree in Visual Arts and Mass Communication. That early taste of real business problems is what pulled me into human-computer interaction, and then into Bangalore's startup scene, where I spent nearly three years as a founding designer at a deep-tech startup, wearing every hat to take the product from zero to one.

Today I'm in Leeds finishing an MSc in Entrepreneurship and building micro-SaaS on the side. Right now that's Stylr, an AI virtual try-on and styling plugin for fashion e-commerce. Whether I'm designing an AI workflow or competing as a finalist at a national hackathon, I'm a little obsessed with precision and performance (a habit years of Formula 1 will give you). In the end, I'm less interested in designing interfaces than in building systems that solve real business problems.