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title: "Karthik Shashidhar - Leader, User Experience Engineering - Webex Calling in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Karthik Shashidhar, Product Design Lead · Strategy · Product Ownership · Building & Operating AI Agents based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and grok. Explore public work links including github and dsgnr.work."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/karthik-s-4/share-image"
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# Karthik Shashidhar on Tal

## Headline

Product Design Lead · Strategy · Product Ownership · Building & Operating AI Agents

## About

I am a UX designer with 10\+years of experience designing interfaces and experiences for various mobile, web and other connected devices\. I have wide array of experience from designing enterprise grade web applications, control portals to consumer facing mobile and TV apps\. I currently design solutions for the cloud communication and collaboration products based on the Webex platform\. My work involves designing products and features with the goal to enable Cisco's enterprise customers to experience the best of the collaboration platforms\. Before moving into UX design, I have had experience working on game design & development and 3d animation\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude

cursor

grok

hermes agent

minimax

RunPod

## Work experience

Leader, User Experience Engineering \- Webex Calling at Cisco, May 2021 \- Aug 2026 · 5 yrs 4 mos

UX Designer \- Webex Cloud Connected UC at Cisco, Apr 2020 \- May 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, I designed features that enabled Cisco's on\-premise customers to have a superior cloud experience\.

UX Designer \- Webex Control Hub at Cisco, Mar 2019 \- Apr 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, I designed various products that enabled legacy customers of UCM products to transition to the Webex Control Hub which included calling features like Auto\-attendant, Call Park, Scheduling and more\.

UX Designer \- Broadsoft Digital at BroadSoft, Jun 2017 \- May 2018 · 1 yr, Provided UX designs to the Broadsoft's service providers for their digital needs which included landing pages, wordpress micro\-sites and design proposals with competitor analysis and redesigns\.

UX Designer \- Broadsoft Design at BroadSoft, Jun 2015 \- May 2018 · 3 yrs, After Broadsoft acquired mPortal, I designed mobile apps and web portals for Broadsoft's suite of unified communications product and collaboration services\. \- AT&T Unified Collaboration Services \- Rogers Unison & others

User Interface Designer at mPortal India Wireless, Aug 2013 \- Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos, Designed various mobile and IOT apps for various telecom, cable, and media providers including AT&T, CableOnda, Time Warner, Bright House Network, The Teaching Company, Verizon\.

User Interface Designer at Psi Phi Labs Technologies Ltd, Apr 2013 \- Jul 2013 · 4 mos, Worked with the startup on a personalised search engine called Dronna under the Kyron Global Accelerator program\.

## Education

Human Computer Interaction, IxDF \- The Interaction Design Foundation

Bachelor of FineArts, Modern Art, D\.M\.S Lalithakala Mahasamsthana, Mysore

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/kxxth1k
- dsgnr\.work: https://dsgnr\.work/

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