Heyyyyoooooooooooooooo
I'm Guru.
That's genuinely my name. And yes, I've spent my career trying to live up to it.
Designing AI-native Copilot shopping experiences at Microsoft AI, to help people chat, discover, shop with a bit more confidence and less friction.
Before, I led Hypercheckout payment experience at Juspay, processing
3.7 billion transactions a month, and worked across product and design
teams at Foundry Spatial and Microsoft.
My work sits at two ends of the same problem: the surfaces people actually touch, like a chat experience, and the systems underneath that make those surfaces possible to design and ship at all.
I'm passionate obsessed with making things useful and beautiful, backing decisions with data, understanding what people actually need, and never standing still on what I'm learning. I like working broad and in-depth, comfortable shaping the larger picture as well as getting into the details.
Lately, I've been designing with AI as much as I design AI products, prototyping in code, running agents to update designs and shipping PRs. I like staying a step ahead of what's possible.
Outside of work, that aggressive curiosity just changes subject. I get into the actual chemistry of why a recipe works, not just how to follow one. Then I take it out on a squash or tennis court, lose track of time in a video game.
If you're building something complex or ambitious, I'd love to hear about it :)
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Guru brings a steady, proactive energy that makes collaboration easy. His skills are strong and he can spin up quick code or prototypes to show exactly what he is thinking, which helped our team align fast.
Microsoft AI
Chang-ling, Principal designer
Guru possesses a rare blend of talent, dedication, and team-oriented mindset and left a lasting impression. The team was drawn to him from the moment we spoke. With keen attention to detail he is a truly remarkable go-getter personality, genuine collaborative spirit that radiated enthusiasm and most importantly did it with a smile.
Microsoft
Daniel zaraya, Global head of product experience
Guru's thirst for knowledge and continual curiosity enables him to understand design challenges to being a credible and effective designer. Applying clear design thinking blended with creativity, his work is executed to a high standard that’s based on solid reasoning, allowing for clear decision making.
Virgin Group, Prev. HSBC
Andy, Design manager
I would sometimes just need to have a simple discussion about a topic with Guru and I would see that it would have been researched and translated to the various steps and details.
Ex-Adobe
Sharan, Design manager
Guru as he applied a spectrum of UX design activities to our web-based SaaS tool. Impressed with the final hi-fi prototypes and detailed documentation handoff in the final deliverable, as well as the diligence and professionalism demonstrated by him.
Foundry Spatial
Mia, Product manager
Achievements
Microsoft's 50th anniversary: Designed shopping features, which were announced during anniversary keynote.
Canadian design systems guild: Monthly Meetup Co-host
University of toronto: Research Presentation at iConference on how to design interfaces for inclusivity
Hackathon finalists: Top 10 of 280 teams across NA
Dribble design: Hackathon winner