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Sudarshan Baskar

Founding Marketer @Hawky AI | Podcaster🎙️ | ex-Zluri, LeadSquared

Bengaluru

2+ years of work experience

Hawky.ai
Jun 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

Bengaluru

- First marketer, now owning entire demand generation. - Leading a team of 2, hired and trained them - content marketer and SDR. - Built brand + designed entire website. - Owned product marketing: decks, education videos (iterated with fast product updates) - Scaled content + social: 100+ posts, set up systems for consistency. - 15+ podcast episodes with performance marketing leaders across globe. - Built outbound from scratch: messaging, cadences, internal tooling. - Generated $750K pipeline (SQLs) QoQ. - Wrote SEO-driven content, reaching ~4K monthly visitors.
LeadSquared
Apr 20253 mosJun 2025

LeadSquared
Aug 20249 mosApr 2025

Zluri
Dec 20237 mosJun 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At Zluri, I worked with Dhanush (Product Design Lead) and Chaitanya (CTO, Co-founder), contributing to key projects: 1. Departments & Groups: Streamlined spend optimization and security management. 2. Notifications & Reminders: Designed a system to alert overspends, late renewals and few more. 3. Access Management: Manage employee license ownership and restrictions. 4. Integration Dashboard: Created a dashboard to monitor integration reliability. 5. Security & Compliance: Led a UI revamp from v1 to v2. 6. Experiments: Revised and established guidelines for table design across the platform.
May 20233 mosJul 2023

On-site

NextLeap
May 20233 mosJul 2023

India

Sudarshan’s AI Stack

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Education

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Design - BDes, Industrial Design

Vellore Institute of Technology

20204 yrs2024

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Headline

Founding Marketer @Hawky AI | Podcaster🎙️ | ex-Zluri, LeadSquared

About

Hey there !! I am Sudarshan Baskar, a digital product designer, who believes that good design is a harmonious blend of functionality and aesthetics. I also run an entrepreneurship podcast where I spoke with 50+ founders and operators from Indian Startup Ecosystem. Besides screens and mic, you can find me reading books/articles and eating Briyani🍲

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

Work experience

Founding Marketer at Hawky.ai, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, - First marketer, now owning entire demand generation. - Leading a team of 2, hired and trained them - content marketer and SDR. - Built brand + designed entire website. - Owned product marketing: decks, education videos (iterated with fast product updates) - Scaled content + social: 100+ posts, set up systems for consistency. - 15+ podcast episodes with performance marketing leaders across globe. - Built outbound from scratch: messaging, cadences, internal tooling. - Generated $750K pipeline (SQLs) QoQ. - Wrote SEO-driven content, reaching ~4K monthly visitors.

Product Designer at LeadSquared, Apr 2025 - Jun 2025 · 3 mos

Associate Product Designer at LeadSquared, Aug 2024 - Apr 2025 · 9 mos

Product Designer at Zluri, Dec 2023 - Jun 2024 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Zluri, I worked with Dhanush (Product Design Lead) and Chaitanya (CTO, Co-founder), contributing to key projects: 1. Departments & Groups: Streamlined spend optimization and security management. 2. Notifications & Reminders: Designed a system to alert overspends, late renewals and few more. 3. Access Management: Manage employee license ownership and restrictions. 4. Integration Dashboard: Created a dashboard to monitor integration reliability. 5. Security & Compliance: Led a UI revamp from v1 to v2. 6. Experiments: Revised and established guidelines for table design across the platform.

UI/UX Design Intern at Cape Agency, May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, On-site

PM Fellow at NextLeap, May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, India

Education

Bachelor of Design - BDes, Industrial Design, Vellore Institute of Technology

Public links

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@sudarshanspodcast

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