My Background
Who I am
I currently lead the Expert Platform and Design System teams at AlphaSights. I rely on design that holds up under pressure, systems that scale, and process that moves quickly to uncover the right answer in the shortest time.
My background growing up in Sri Lanka shaped a deep appreciation for self-direction and agency. That instict still drives how I work: move fast, ask questions, and use iteration as a path to clarity. I care deeply about the details and do my best work with people who care just as much. I tend to go deep — and look for that same energy in every project and team I work with.
These days I'm focused on:
📱 Using an NBA App as a vehicle to learn SwiftUI.
🛠️ Building bespoke tools (mostly as jokes) using Lovable (currently) and Cursor.
🧩 Learning to build Raycast extensions and Figma plugins for ever minor inconvenience I run into.
I tend to go deep on the things I care about — sometimes obsessively. A few favorites:
🏋️ Powerlifting — I got hooked on the balance between precision and intuition, obsessing over form, bar speed, recovery etc while still learning to trust feel.
🏀 NBA Analytics and Team Building — Specifically, salary cap mechanics, historical trends, and predictive indicators of player growth
🃏 Playing Cards — Not the games, the medium. I’m fascinated by the visual system, symbolism, and history
My Experience
What I have done
I currently lead the Expert Experience and Design Systems teams at AlphaSights, where I’ve worked across nearly every product surface over the years. I’ve shipped over 100 projects across 16 cross functional pods — from greenfield initiatives to foundational infrastructure — and helped grow design’s influence by building bridges between teams and advocating for clarity, speed, and systems.
Some highlights from my time at AlphaSights:
🚀 Shipped 4 major zero-to-one products.
👤 Led the design of a new expert-facing platform to support out network of over a million experts, spanning core workflows across web and mobile.
🧱 Rebuilt our design system from the ground up — now 60+ components used by 25+ teams.
🔒 Designed a compliance platform that powers AlphaSights’ industry-leading research workflows.
🛠️ Rebuilt our expert delivery platform, reducing time-to-publish by 16% for 100,000+ experts/month.
📖 Built a new design system docs site that aligned 25+ teams around a shared standard of quality.
📜 Designed cross-platform tooling that helps experts and internal teams capture structured insight from expert vetting, enabling a scalable knowledge management foundation to empower AlphaSights' future.
✉️ Built tooling l that helps associates draft expert outreach messages faster using LLMs, improving both speed and quality of outreach.
In the past, I have:
⌚ Designed and shaped the end-to-end iOS and Android experience for the original VibeRise mobile app — a mobile companion app for a wearable silent alarm — as the founding designer at PAQ.
🧭 Prototyped and built a tactile campus navigation system with the UCSD Office for Students with Disabilities for the visually impaired, combining physical signage with a scalable design language and a companion app to support cross-campus and indoor wayfinding.
💎 Published a free, fully accessible Figma component library with 40+ components and 3,000+ variants.
🗾 Created a comprehensive Figma kit for designing GBA-style Pokémon maps, featuring over 19,000 variants including characters, terrain, and up to Gen 7 Pokémon.