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Senior Product Designer at Last9 | Design Engineer | Observability UX for engineers — metrics, logs, traces

About

I design and build the interfaces engineers use when something is on fire. For five years that has meant Last9's observability product — metrics, logs, traces, APM, RUM. Data-dense UI where a badly placed axis label or an ambiguous word like "throughput" costs an on-call engineer twenty minutes during an incident. I own that surface end to end: research, interaction design, the design system, the UX copy, and increasingly the shipped React and TypeScript itself. The unusual part of my background is the range on either side of design. I've run product management on the same surface I design — writing the PRDs, triaging customer issues into Linear, prioritising engineering cycles. I've run product marketing for it too — launch weeks, developer content, positioning, pricing decks. So I tend to arrive at a design problem already knowing what the sales objection is, what the docs will have to explain, and what an SRE actually types into the query bar at 2am. I also ship. Over the past year I've rebuilt the alerting product, taken dashboards from a set of panels to a platform, made every chart in the product behave like one system, reworked how logs and traces read, and carried the design system through a migration — designing all of it and writing the production code, with Claude Code as the multiplier. Most of what I design now, I also build. That closes the loop that usually costs teams weeks: no handoff, no spec drift, no "we'll do the empty state later." Before Last9: I co-founded Quinto.ai, a conversational AI product for sales and support, acquired by Netcore in 2019. Earlier I founded The Tossed Salad, a food and culture publication, and worked as a freelance designer. I still write — bylines in Condé Nast Traveller India, The Hard Copy, Midday Pune — and I run a cookbook potluck club in Bangalore. The writing is not a side note; it's why I can make a technical product explain itself. Bangalore-based. Open to conversations about design and design-engineering.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

gemini

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Work experience

Senior Product Designer (Design, Product, & GTM) at Last9 Inc, Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Own the UX of Last9's dashboard — a data-dense React application used by SRE, DevOps, and platform teams to run production systems. Metrics, logs, traces, APM, RUM. Design across the product's hardest surfaces: alerting, dashboards, query building, and the reading experience for logs and traces. The design system, the visualisation layer, and the shipped React are all part of the job — the design and the code are the same commits. Also did product management and product marketing for the same product between 2023 and 2025, which is why I tend to arrive at a design problem already knowing the sales objection and what the docs will have to explain. I've also hired across design, frontend, and content here.

Product Designer at Last9 Inc, Apr 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sr UX Engineer at Markk Inc, May 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Pune Division, Markk was a location-based social network — real-time photo and video of what a place is actually like right now, pinned to a map and expiring within 24 hours so the feed always reflected the present. Built primarily for the LA market. In March 2020 we added an emergency supplies finder: people photographed what was actually in stock at their local store and tagged the location, so neighbours could skip a wasted trip and stores saw less crowding. It picked up press coverage in the first weeks of the pandemic. Designed the iOS and Android apps and the web UI. Inherited a workflow of Photoshop files shared over Dropbox, with engineers eyeballing measurements off flat comps. Moved the team to Sketch and Zeplin, then to Figma once it was viable for teams, so specs became something to inspect rather than estimate. Prototyped in Principle so engineers had something concrete to build against: how a screen sequenced, what animated, what the timing was. Motion is hard to describe in a static comp and easy to get wrong in code. Art-directed freelance illustrators on asset work. — UI/UX, mobile and web design, design systems, motion prototyping, art direction

Co-Founder at Quinto.ai - Automating Business Conversations, Nov 2012 - Apr 2018 · 5 yrs 6 mos, Pune Division, → Acquired by Netcore Solutions. Quinto.ai An end-to-end automated live-chat product for businesses to engage with their customers by reducing response times and increasing productivity of their support team. Businesses can use it on their website, mobile apps, and social media channels. — Product management, UI/UX, business development Quinto A chat-based personal assistant for food & restaurant recommendations. — Product management, UI/UX, data curation, marketing

Founder at The Tossed Salad, Jul 2008 - Nov 2013 · 5 yrs 5 mos, Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area, Pune and Mumbai based lifestyle editorial website focusing on food, arts, and culture. Weekend guide via email newsletter for the latest in restaurants and events. Featured in Condé Nast Traveller India's 2013 annual issue as one of the best city guides helping people find local secrets. The Tossed Salad also hosted a monthly book club meet at Landmark, with authors like Ashwin Sanghi and Amish Tripathi doing readings, and publishers like Penguin and Hachette sending signed copies for our members. Led to bylines in Condé Nast Traveller India, MidDay, and Jetwings, and a jury seat for Condé Nast Traveller India's first restaurant awards since 2017. — Creative direction, editing, branding, PR

Freelance Designer at Three November Designs, Jan 2008 - Nov 2013 · 5 yrs 11 mos, Pune Area, India, Solo design practice. Worked with clients like The Economic Times, Fundtech (acquired by D+H), Examify (funded by Vishal Gondal), Nexsales. — Web design, print design, graphic design, branding, UI/UX

Education

BBA-IT, IT Systems, SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Army Public School, Lucknow