I currently work as a Product Manager at Noora Health, leading the Remote Engagement Service (RES) and Special Projects. RES helps expectant and newly delivered mothers receive mobile health education at home.

I have 7+ years of experience shipping products and services across femtech, healthcare, education, cleantech and SaaS. B2B, B2G2C and B2C.

Featured Products

• Remote Engagement Service — Digital health education for patients and caregivers
• UVfy — AI-based hospital safety device
• Design Hive Labs — Tribal makerspaces for children
• Health Educators Platform — Digital attendance app for healthcare workers (Android/iOS/Whatsapp chatbot)
• Build Cohorts — Live Cohort Based Courses for product builders
• Health Query Assistant— AI/LLM Assist, Medical Intent Recognition for clinicians
• Soft LEGO — Gender accessible soft robotics toolkit for preschoolers
• Equarun — Haptic navigation for Deafblind runners

Experience

• Noora Health | Product Manager, Shared Platforms | 2021 - PRESENT
• dVerse Labs | Head of Product, Co-Founder | 2020 - 2021
• Lead by Design Foundation | Head of Product, Co-Founder | 2017 - 2020
• York University of Toronto | Research Assistant | 2015

Side Projects

• Healthy Diet Recommender — GPT-4V Telegram Bot (WIP)
• Unicorn Jobs — Curated job search for tech unicorns (WIP, desktop view)
• Personal Website — Self-hosted website with custom Ghost CMS
• Founders Digest — Invite-only Newsletter swap for founders
• Cookie Notes — Anonymously send tweets to the brands you love/or hate
• Campfire Book Club— Online tiny cohort-based book club
• Hustlers — Newsletter featuring prominent indie-hackers and part-time builders
• Clarity Notes — Lightning fast youtube notes
• Digital Health Allies — List of digital health allies in the public health ecosystem
• YAGMI Club — Indestructible goal-setting through smart contracts
• Prompt Hero — Midjourney prompt builder
• Metahuman — Biosynthetic skin interface, Harvard Biodesign
• India Fights COVID — Doctor verified wiki for COVID-related info
• Remembrandt — Reducing night-wandering for alzheimers patients
• Shake Up The World Podcast— Covering stories of people building utopian futures
• Buildcamps — Staycation for building side projects
• Sterilo — Portable UV-C steriliser for hospitals (open source hardware)
• Simple Wiki Converter — Simple wikipedia to markdown converter
• Futures Festival— Celebrating diversity of thought through multi-spectrum futures

Talks

• Inventing for Social Good, World Futures Festival
• Curiosity for building products, Penguin Latte Podcast
• Design Thinking and Education, Reinvent Podcast
• Useful, Usable and Desirable Products, Seekwise Podcast
• Generative Art 101, Curiosity Chronicles
• Lead by Design, Global Youth Advancement Summit
• IDE Academy, TU Delft Workshop on Tribal innovation through co-creation
• Proyectos LATAM COVID-19, Live LATAM broadcast on Open Source Hardware

Awards and Lists

• Google x Biodesign Challenge Semifinalist (link)

• DESIGN X SOCIAL Global Innovation by UMO Design (link)

• Best NoCode/Design Award by Xperian (link)

• Digit Magazine (UVfy) (link)

• iF Design Talent Award (Equarun) (link)

• James Dyson Award Semi-finalist NL (Equarun)

• MIT Open COVID Challenge, India (Sterilo)

• UNICEF Ideas for Change (Reimagine India Hackathon) (link)

• Advisory Board Member of hundrED Innovation Summit, Helsinki (link)

• Philips Innovation Award Semi-finalist (dCode Labs) (link)

• Social Impact Award - BAIF Foundation

• Toronto Star - Solar EV Carport (link)

Research Publications

• Prakash, S. (2020). Using soft robotics as a medium for gender accessible STEM education of preschoolers. (link)
• Persaud, S., Prakash, S., & Flipsen, B. (2021). Dialogue for design teams: A case study of generative conversations for dealing with diversity. In DS 110: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2021), VIA Design, VIA University in Herning, Denmark. 9th-10th September 2021. (link)

Books

• Co-design Rural Toolkit — Toolkit for co-creating rural innovations with children

Grants

• 2023—Helped raise $100,000 for Noora Health as a donation from Derek Sivers

• 2021—PRISM Grant Government of India Grant for Affordable Healthcare for UVfy ($13500)

• 2021—Massachussets Institute of Technology COVID India Grant for Sterilo ($500)

• 2018—Justus & van Effen Scholar at TU Delft (€40800)

• 2018—Avery Dennison Foundation Grant for dHive Labs ($3000)

• 2018—BAIF Foundation Grant for dHive Labs ($1100)

• 2017—3M India Grant for dHive Labs ($2500)

• 2015—Mitacs Globalink Scholar for Solar EV Carport, York University of Toronto ($6000)