A bit more about me :)not the resumeeee version
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Hey, Vanakkam! I’m Goutham. I’m a little curious, a little obsessive, and I tend to notice small things - sometimes a little too much. I can spend a surprising amount of time wondering if something is 2px out of place, then realise I’ve been sitting there for two hours. I like simple things done thoughtfully, good conversations, interesting ideas, quiet spaces, and the occasional random creative experiment.
I’m naturally curious about how things work, so I often end up going down little rabbit holes. Sometimes they lead somewhere useful, sometimes they really don’t. Either way, I usually learn something along the way.
I like making things, learning things, trying things, and occasionally overthinking them. Nothing too profound - just trying to stay curious and enjoy the process.
I’m very into retro gaming 
click on it - try my arcade!
Warning! unnecessary personal journey ahead.
I started as a freelance designer while I was in college. My first client asked me to design a set of game cards, so I went all in on the graphics. He liked the work enough to pay me a little extra - I still don’t know why, but that appreciation stuck with me. It pushed me deeper into design.
From graphic design, I moved into web design and started learning more about UX research, interactions, and how people actually experience products. But after a while, I wanted more than just designing them.
I wanted to build what I designed.
Back then, AI wasn’t capable enough for me to rely on it for building products, so I decided to learn full-stack development from scratch. It took me nearly a year to become comfortable building things on my own. Somewhere along the way, I realised how interesting it was to bring design and development together - I could think about the experience and actually make it work.
Then AI became much more capable, and naturally, I started exploring it too. I learned how AI could fit into the products I was already designing and building, rather than treating it as something separate.
Today, I enjoy taking an idea all the way from UX research and design to development, AI integration, and deployment. I can explore the problem, shape the experience, build the product, make it AI-powered when it genuinely adds value, and ship it.
That’s probably the part of my journey I’m most excited about - not having to choose between design, code, and AI.
