I joined DCCPER mid-2015 after connecting with Luke via Twitter a few months earlier.

From its humble beginnings; Luke, Joshua and Co scaled the team to over 60 employees and firmly established it as one of Goa’s most buzzing startups. During my first year here, I had the opportunity to work on some really cool projects for startups in India, Canada and the UK — under the mentorship of a British design director and a French CEO.

In my second year, I was given the opportunity to step up to design management. Though initially skeptical, I decided to give it a shot and it turned out to be one of the best professional decisions I’ve made. I led a team of 3 designers with varying skillsets in addition to my IC capacity, doing the best work of my life in this period.

Mid-2017, the company had a 37 Signals / Basecamp moment and we decided to put all our collective energy into Numadic—a supply chain visibility platform we had been working on many months prior. I came onboard in June that year.

At Numadic, I led the UX function across all touchpoints — reporting directly to Luke, collaborating with Product and Sales to decide what to build, leading the UX team to design and refine features and handing off to Engineering in a monthly release cycle. I also contributed in other ways like designing pitch decks for investor calls and meetings, designing collateral for recruitment drives and other such projects.

It’s been an excellent 3 years at DCCPER / Numadic, and I can easily say we had it all here — a highly talented diverse team, investor funding, exciting projects and products, a culture that rewards meritocracy, autonomy and ​“never settling”. For a team of our size coming from small villages and towns in Goa, it still amazes me how much we achieved in such a short span of time.

A big thank-you to Luke and Joshua, for always pushing and being there for me. Many thanks to my teammates, especially in the Design Team, for bringing out the best in me over the last 3 years. It’s time to move on to my next challenge, and I plan on taking a short break while I assess my options, and the path forward.