Raunaq Gupta

Resume

Experience

- Current

Senior product designer

Cisco (Splunk, AppDynamics)
  1. Shipped Database monitoring on Splunk Observability Cloud. Drove user testing during the beta launch with 11 multi-national customers with 64% conversion to multi-year licenses. This project also defined AI-assisted workflows, and data visualizations adopted by 5+ teams.
  2. Shipped Secure Application, and its Data Security Module on Cisco Observability platform with the biggest customer being T-Mobile. Cisco Observability Platform was sunset in lieu of Cisco’s Splunk acquisition.
  3. Shipped multiple projects on Splunk IT Service Intelligence.
  4. Contributed improvements to Splunk’s design system.
  5. Mentored, and led interns to deliver small- to medium-sized projects.
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Design engineer

PlanetScale
  1. Led design and frontend development to ship a 0→1 product and aid in a Series B of $22M. Read the TechCrunch article.
  2. Simplified configuration & deployment of multi-cloud, multi-region, and shardable databases within minutes.
  3. Design, development and maintenance of the web application, marketing, and documentation websites.
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Freelance

Various

Work on multiple projects on contractual terms spanning industries including payment solutions (BillDesk), virtual networking (Juniper Networks), journalism (PARI), fintech (Wobe), and team productivity (Baloonr).

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Product designer

Arkin
  1. Designed and developed a 0→1 product to acquisition (VMWare) while supporting an engineering team of 40 engineers in a 2-person design team.
  2. Simplified software-defined datacenter monitoring with emphasis on highly-scalable visualizations to accommodate thousands of monitored devices.
  3. Other notable design pieces include a natural language search interface, and a novel icon design kit.

Note: Co-creator on patent US9923782B1 for a topology visualization.

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Design engineer intern

IBM

Shadowed a product team on IBM Watson comprising of a product manager, product designer, user researcher, and multiple frontend engineers for 2 months.

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Software engineer

Aricent Networks

Wrote C++ functions inside a proprietary visual editor to define business logic for Alcatel Lucent’s clients. The product in question was called ALU 8642 Flexible Routing and Charging (FRC)

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Software engineer

CPA Global

Wrote database migration scripts to onboard new clients on a patent portfolio management system sold by CPA Global.

Education

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Master of human computer interaction

Carnegie Mellon University
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Bachelors of technology in computer science

Amity University