Headline

Product Designer | Ex-Data Engineer @Probo | Design @Airlearn | Creating Data-Informed & Scalable User Experiences

About

Siddharth Gautam is a Product Designer based in Bengaluru, at the intersection of data-driven logic and human-centered design. His career path has been anything but linear — and that's exactly what makes his perspective sharp. He spent his early professional years in analytical and engineering roles at Probo and Flocard, where he built real fluency in data architecture, systems thinking, and product collaboration. These experiences gave him something most designers don't have: a deep understanding of how products work under the hood, not just on the surface. After being laid off in late 2024, Siddharth made a deliberate pivot. He spent the first half of 2025 in a self-directed transition — completing the Google UX Design Professional Certificate, going through the 10k Designers upskilling program, and building a design practice from the ground up. Not a shortcut. A foundation. He's now a Creative Design Intern at Airlearn — a Unacademy-backed language learning app with 70,000+ daily active users and a 4.8-star App Store rating — where he designs multilingual learning experiences for a global audience across 12 languages. His design approach is grounded in the belief that the most personal work is the most creative — and that great UX isn't just aesthetic, it's functional all the way through.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

inception

llmapi

mastra

minimax

Work experience

Creative Design Intern at Airlearn, Aug 2025 - Present · 9 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Lesson Design at Scale: Produced 50+ lessons daily across 7 languages, directly contributing to a content library that serves 70,000+ daily active users and supports learners across 150+ countries on a platform with 500K+ downloads. - Multilingual UX: Reviewed and resolved UX copy and layout errors across 12 languages in collaboration with QC, reducing lesson-level error rates by ~25% and improving release quality for a 4.8★-rated app. - AI-Driven Visual Pipeline: Engineered Midjourney prompts to generate 300+ visual assets per week, maintaining cross-lesson style consistency and cutting manual illustration turnaround time by ~35%. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinated across educator, QC, and design teams on lesson handoff workflows, helping reduce revision cycles by ~20% through clearer design-to-content documentation.

Cohort Member at 10kdesigners, Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 · 5 mos, Remote, Selected for the 10k Designers flagship cohort (~10% acceptance rate). Learning advanced UX/UI, design systems, user research, prototyping, and real-world product thinking through projects, critiques, and mentorship from industry designers.

Career transition at Career Break, Jan 2025 - Jul 2025 · 7 mos, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, Took a deliberate career break following a layoff to transition into Product and UX Design. Used this period to build design skills from the ground up through structured learning and self-directed practice. Completed the Google UX Design Professional Certificate on Coursera, enrolled in the 10k Designers upskilling program, and worked on building a design portfolio. Also developed proficiency in AI-powered design tools including Midjourney, Framer, and no-code platforms like Lovable and Cursor. This was a period of intentional reinvention — moving from a data engineering background into product design by choice, not chance.

Data Engineer at Probo, Feb 2024 - Dec 2024 · 11 mos, Gurugram · Hybrid, - Election Data Pipeline: Architected and maintained a live, end-to-end data pipeline during the 2024 Indian General Elections — one of the platform's highest-traffic events — ensuring real-time data consistency for 34M+ active users making live predictions simultaneously. - Data Visualization: Built 12+ Tableau dashboards from government-released datasets to surface trends for Probo's prediction markets, reducing analyst data interpretation time by ~40%. - Agile Coordination: Stepped up as acting team lead in the absence of a technical lead — ran daily standups, allocated tasks across a team of 4 engineers via ClickUp, and maintained sprint delivery across a 3-month period with zero major pipeline failures. - Scalable Infrastructure: Designed and maintained AWS data ingestion pipelines processing millions of data events daily, supporting uninterrupted real-time data flow across Probo's user-facing prediction markets.

Data Engineer at Probo, Feb 2024 - Dec 2024 · 11 mos, Gurugram · Hybrid

Engineer Intern at FloCard, Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos, Ranchi, - Built a tree species detection ML model trained on a 10-species dataset, achieving 95% classification accuracy using image recognition techniques. - Developed and deployed a full-stack web application enabling users to upload images and receive real-time model predictions, with an average response time under 3 seconds.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, sikkim manipal institute of technology