I am an American Muslim, came to the US in 2002 on an H1B visa, and got a green card then became an American Citizen in 2018. Yup, took me that long. Blame the process ;) During that time, I got married, have children, and now owning a home and two cars, living a typical American dream.
Currently working as a Lead Product Designer designer at Wells Fargo and did my transition into this field in 2012 professionally from the Software Development domain.
I witnessed the rise of Obama, saw Hillary and Trump’s face-off. But, I never experienced the election firsthand because you can only vote when you are a citizen, by birth or by naturalization in America.
This year, the year 2020, was different for me. My wife and I became a citizen in 2018, voted in primaries, and now we voted in our first presidential election.
As a designer and architect with an entrepreneur’s mindset, I trained my eyes and process so that when I am building a product, I have to see things from “God’s-eyes-view” and “Ant’s-eyes-view,” or in short, zoom out and zoom in. Strategizing aspect of every move, and then being tactical.
