Work Experience
From concept to launch — projects that helped startups grow, scale, and succeed.
Senior Product Designer,
MyStudio
Feb 2025 — Present
Virginia
Led UX for 20+ cross-functional projects across mobile and web platforms, contributing to core product strategy, research, and delivery from concept to delivery.
Worked across all phases of the product lifecycle — from user interviews and flows to advanced prototyping, design system usage, and developer handoff. Collaborated with PMs, engineers, and leadership to define PRDs, map flows, and align product direction with user insights and business goals.
Built a shared design system by customizing the Shadcn UI library, reducing UI-only delivery time from 8–9 months to ~1 month and enabling consistent reuse across teams.
Selected Projects
Improved attendance tracking efficiency by designing and launching a kid-friendly Attendance Portal, achieving 78% adoption within a month across active studios.
Led the end-to-end redesign of a core operational workflow for martial arts schools (rank promotions and belt testing), increasing feature adoption from 16% to 60%+ within 8 months.
Designed and shipped our AI configurable lead follow-up feature in under one quarter, generating 131 additional trial signups and increasing conversion from ~7% (no follow-up) to ~28% with a single automated follow-up.
UX/UI Designer,
Cycn Software
May 2022 — May 2023
Virginia
Led UX design for the Covenants microservice within a commercial loan origination system, supporting compliance‑driven, high‑risk financial workflows.
Created user journey maps and blueprints to clarify multi-step flows and stakeholder expectations.
Partnered with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to balance business goals, technical feasibility, and user needs and iterate in agile sprints.
Designed Hi-fidelity wireframes and prototypes for 10+ complex flows using an in‑house design system, informed by primary and secondary user research with loan officers and analysts.
Applied a customer‑ and business‑centered design strategy to reduce friction in critical financial workflows.
Selected Projects
Reduced covenant creation time and streamlined multi‑step processes, improving efficiency for lending teams.
Introduced a risk evaluation feature that reduced evaluation time by 74.4% and increased lender retention by 55%.
Designed experiences with a strong focus on accuracy, trust, and usability in a regulated fintech environment.
UX Designer,
Monsoonfish
Dec 2020 — Jul 2021
India
Designed a B2B travel booking web application for agents, leading research, flow definition, and UI design, resulting in a 20% performance increase.
Collaborated with the Operabase product team to prototype and improve search experiences, increasing media usage by 35% and inquiries by 15%.
Conducted visual audits and created a reusable Figma component library for web and mobile, improving design consistency and delivery speed.
Designed an informational platform for the National Language Translation Mission, using gamification strategies to engage over 2 million users.
UI UX Designer,
Shoptimize
Jul 2018 — Nov 2020
India
Led UX discovery and validated use cases for an in‑house e‑commerce onboarding portal using a customer‑centered approach and design system standards.
Translated complex user flows into wireframes that balanced user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
Collaborated with stakeholders and engineering teams to ensure design feasibility and implementation quality.
Created developer handoff documentation that contributed to a 17% conversion rate with over 500 successful onboardings.
Designed engaging user experiences across 100+ e‑commerce websites with a strong focus on interaction design and visual clarity.
Education
M.Sc of Human Centered Computing (Design)
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Jul 2021 — May 2023
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
University Of Pune
India
Jun 2014 — Jun 2018
Skills
Design Strategy & Leadership: Product Strategy, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Design Governance, Roadmap Planning, Mentorship.
Systems & Architecture: Design Systems (ShadCN), Component Libraries, Design Tokens, Documentation, Systems Thinking.
Specialized UX: Fintech Workflows, Regulated Environments, CRM/Lead Funnels, Accessibility (WCAG), Ecommerce and retail.
Research & Analysis: User Interviews, Quantitative & Qualitative Synthesis, Usability Testing, Data Analysis, Journey Mapping.
Execution & Handoff: Prototyping, Responsive Design, Developer Handoff, Agile Methodology, PRD Writing.
Tools used: Figma stack (Variables, Advanced Prototyping, and Design System Governance. ), Miro, Post-hog, Product board, Framer
