Sachin Sahu
Senior Product Designer @ Harness | Ex - StepSecurity, BalkanID, Accenture
Bengaluru
6+ years of work experience
May 20265 mosPresent
Bengaluru
Responsible for leading the design of Security Testing Orchestration (STO), Harness Secure Artefacts (HSA) and Qwite AI Module.
Jan 20265 mosMay 2026
Jun 20241 yr 8 mosJan 2026
Hyderabad
— Responsible for redesigning the StepSecurity platform from the ground up.
— Owning the entire product experience, built a platform that makes CI/CD security fast, clear, and effortless for both developers and security teams.
— Boosted platform engagement by ~180–200%, increasing session duration from 6–8 min → 20+ min and making CI/CD security signals dramatically clearer for customers.
— Improved adoption & conversions, with the redesign helping onboard 8-10 new enterprise customers, contributing to $1M ARR impact across PoCs, trials, and paid conversions.
— The improved UX and clarity from the redesign helped the platform scale to support major industry-recognized security findings, including a supply-chain compromise impacting 23,000+ repositories and covered by GitHub, Wiz Research, CISA, Hacker News, and Black Hat USA 2025.
— Strengthened the platform’s UX to support industry-wide adoption, helping StepSecurity scale from ~3,500 to 10,000+ open-source repositories, 10+ Enterprise Customers, and secure 20M+ builds per week across major organizations like Microsoft, Google, Intel, RedHat, Kubernetes, Azure, CISA, New Relic, dotnet, and Backstage.
— Designed the new Admin Console (0→1) and designed core areas (Repository, Roles, Admin settings, Groups, User Settings, Github Checks Settings), enabling platform manageability for enterprise customers.
— Migrated the entire product to a new design system built on top of Shadcn UI, reducing UI inconsistencies by 70%+ and accelerating frontend development by 30–40%.
— Shipped multiple high-impact features (Action Advisor, Artifact Monitoring, Suppression Rules, Workflow Run improvements, Community Tier) that improved feature adoption and overall product clarity.
— Collaborated closely with founders & engineering on positioning, pricing tiers, and launch quality.
Feb 20245 mosJun 2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Wore multiple hats as the solo designer at an early-stage identity security startup, owning everything from 0→1 product design to marketing site optimization.
— Led design for core product features like IAM Risk Analyzer, RBAC Analyzer, Role Management, AI Copilot, Access Reviews, Action Center, and Notifications.
— Designed the AI-powered Identity Security Copilot from the ground up - logo, branding, generative UX flows, chat history, table integrations, and designed + developed its landing page in Webflow, significantly boosting demo requests.
— These initiatives directly supported sales efforts, contributing to multiple $20K–$50K+ annual retainer deals with enterprise customers.
— Reimagined the product dashboard into two distinct views (Risk and Lifecycle) to improve clarity and help customers prioritize actions faster.
— Created graph flows and flow maps to simplify complex relationships between users, roles, and connections — making risk analysis more intuitive for security teams.
— Conducted a full UX audit of the marketing site, added new sections (RBAC, Proactive Identity Management), redesigned the About page, and published updates using Webflow.
— Established design foundations, organized Figma files, set up Jira Design Kanban boards, ran regular design sprints, and initiated customer feedback loops.
— Integrated Hotjar to capture usage and behavioral insights and to make data-informed design decisions across the product.
— Worked closely with founders, PMs, and engineers to shape product direction, iterate fast, and deliver clean, thoughtful interfaces.
From 0→1 features to improving existing UX, brought structure, clarity, and momentum to design at BalkanID while helping drive high-value enterprise deals.
Jan 20241 moJan 2024
Nov 20233 mosJan 2024
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead, manage, and plan UX design projects and audits, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs, while mentoring junior designers.
Jul 20212 yrs 5 mosNov 2023
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
I worked as part of the Avanade design team, which is a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft.
- Crafted wireframes, visuals, and interactive prototypes, emphasizing security products and services.
- Conducted regular UX audits, pinpointing experience gaps and vital security flaws, and recommended actionable improvements.
- Led the user research and design of an app from scratch, revolutionizing data analysis leading to improvement in efficiency by 99% approx.
- Helped the team launch of two new services.
- Leveraged user feedback and business goals, achieving design refinements with substantial cost benefits, including a marked $84,000 gain.
- Introduced an accessibility audit process for teams to assess the accessibility of their products.
- Developed an accessibility maturity scoring framework to measure and improve accessibility of the products over time.
- Collaborated closely with developers to ensure smooth product releases.
Aug 20201 yrJul 2021
- Worked on planning, testing, and executing DLP rules, policies, and upgrades for all the client's business units and worked on monthly vulnerability fixes.
- Administration of DLP tools like Proofpoint, Prisma SAAS, Tanium, and Symantec DLP to prevent leakage of confidential and sensitive data out of the organization.
Sachin’s AI Stack
Education
Professional Education, UX Design
IxDF - The Interaction Design Foundation
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
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