Samir has 17+ years of experience as user experience (UX) designer and as a product innovation consultant across many industries/ domains namely networking, consumer, telecom, hybrid-cloud and health-care-tech. He has been into crafting design and tech-experience for software products in enterprise (dev-tooling) as well consumer markets across many 'Fortune 100' companies including Cisco, Red Hat, IBM, Samsung, Xerox and Dell etc. He has several patents to his name in the areas of multi-modal AR/VR interaction experience, smart-wearables and data-encryption.
Samir has been awarded globally for his initiatives namely "The Man-than Award South Asia 2009", "World Summit Award Mobile 2010" and “mBillionth South Asia 2010”.
Samir is a Masters in English Literature with Critical Theory and com-pleted his MBA in Systems & Marketing. He is a Certified Product Manag-er® from AIPMM and a BlackBelt in the Six Sigma process.
In his book The DesOps Enterprise, the first book ever written on design operations through automation or DesignOps, Samir has been spreading his idea of design-led automation , coined as ‘DesOps’ as the successor of DevOps mindset. He has published a number of papers in international journals and has been a key voice in evangelizing the concept of AI Facili-tated Design-Thinking and AI powered Web & Application Accessibility across the industry and academia.