Hi, I'm Prateek.

I design developer tools and build AI-powered systems at AWS.

My path through healthcare and into cloud infrastructure taught me that ❋ conceptual frameworks and code ❋ are design tools in their own right. Frameworks become maps through complexity, and code a way to explore what's possible. Together, they help me build interfaces that carry the complexity so people don't have to.

work

At AWS, I've worked on developer tooling for databases, and I'm now building sensemaking tools to understand developer experience at scale.

Lumina Reads customer feedback across more than 50 AWS services, and has grown from a design-team tool into one engineering and product teams use.

At Siemens Healthineers, I designed interfaces for regulated medical devices, from ultrasound systems to a design system spanning a diverse medical device and technology portfolio.

Ultrasound Consoles and touchscreens for ACUSON Sequoia and Origin, shaped through hands-on prototypes and clinical research that led to a late-stage hardware change.

Shui Siemens Healthineers' first design system, from touchscreen components to workflow patterns like patient management, used in products from ultrasound to AI-assisted imaging.

On my own, I experiment with technology to explore domains I want to understand, from research papers to regional foods and crafts.

HCI Index↗ A living index of what HCI research has learned about people and technology, with a weekly issue on what the newest papers found.

Rasabhūmi↗ A map of more than 4,400 Geographical Indication products: the foods and crafts named for the places that make them.

1000 people↗ A way into a community through its people: notable designers, drawn as a network of how they connect.

Writing helps me work things out, whether it's design, technology, or something I'm still trying to understand.

I'm drawn to understanding, and the slower work of translating it into something that fits, the way a good tool fits a hand it has never held.

I came to design through mechatronics engineering, mostly out of curiosity. I have always wanted to know how things work, how mechanical, electronic, and software parts add up to something that feels like magic. Knowing how it works has never made it less so. After a few years in IT in India, that curiosity had turned toward the human side of technology, and I moved to Italy to study interaction design.

The engineering habit has stayed with me. I still come to design by taking a system apart, in code or on paper, until I can see how its pieces fit together, whether it's medical imaging or cloud infrastructure. Every field has its own language, rituals, and mental models, and learning them from the inside has become the part of the work I enjoy most.

When I'm not at a computer, you'll find me with my wife and our dog, enjoying the sights, sounds, and flavors of wherever we are.