- 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.
- 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.
- Shipped multiple projects on Splunk IT Service Intelligence.
- Contributed improvements to Splunk’s design system.
- Mentored, and led interns to deliver small- to medium-sized projects.
Experience
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Senior product designer
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Cisco (Splunk, AppDynamics)
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Design engineer
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PlanetScale
- Led design and frontend development to ship a 0→1 product and aid in a Series B of $22M. Read the TechCrunch article.
- Simplified configuration & deployment of multi-cloud, multi-region, and shardable databases within minutes.
- Design, development and maintenance of the web application, marketing, and documentation websites.
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Freelance
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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
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Arkin
- Designed and developed a 0→1 product to acquisition (VMWare) while supporting an engineering team of 40 engineers in a 2-person design team.
- Simplified software-defined datacenter monitoring with emphasis on highly-scalable visualizations to accommodate thousands of monitored devices.
- 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
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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
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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
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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
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Bachelors of technology in computer science
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Amity University