Summary
Valadi Jagannathan is a multidisciplinary design and technology director with over eight years focused on AI-driven design solutions and decades of broader industry experience spanning product design, materials research, and manufacturing. He leads JAGS AI and related ventures from Coimbatore, translating breakthroughs in polymers, natural materials, and material science into consumer products, packaging, point-of-purchase systems, and novel gifting solutions. A trained industrial designer from IIT Bombay with a mechanical engineering foundation, he combines hands-on rapid prototyping and tooling know-how with emerging capabilities in AI animation, 3D rendering, mocap, and comfy-UI workflows. His career blends creative entrepreneurship—running spice cultivation and orchid collectible businesses—with technical leadership in wearable audio and manufacturing, reflecting a rare mix of aesthetic sensibility and pragmatic production expertise. Known on GitHub as a “designer with a twist for the impossible,” he advises creators on pushing AI-based image and animation techniques into practical, market-ready experiences.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
B E (Mech), Mechanical Engineering, B E (Mech), Mechanical Engineering at PSG College of Technology
Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, English, Marathi