About

Akshay Saini

Product Designer and Design Engineer based in Bangalore, India, with a computer science foundation.

As a self-taught Product Designer and Design Engineer with nearly 7 years in design based in Bangalore (Bengaluru), India, I turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clear, trustworthy product flows. From Tulr's no-code platform to YC-backed fintech at Kodo (W21) and devtools at Unlogged (S22), I partner closely with product and engineering — with agentic AI experience at 100x.bot. Since July 2026, I work independently as a freelance Product Designer and Design Engineer.

Experience

Nearly 7 years in design across fintech, devtools, and AI.

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Jul 2026 – Present

4 months

Bengaluru, India

Product Designer / Design Engineer · Freelancing

Independent product design and design engineering for apps and production websites.

  • Designed and built Postforge, a social media post design tool with brand kits, 20+ layouts, AI-assisted briefs, and export-ready posts and slide decks
  • Designing and building Ion Workspace, a connected app for business email, calendars, contacts, and files, with a public sample-data demo
  • Redesigned and built the Indus Best Mega Food Park website, now live in production, with campus and facilities information, investor journeys, enquiry flows, and a private content management workspace

Dec 2025 – Jun 2026

6 months

Bengaluru, India

100x.bot

Design Engineer · 100x.bot

Designed and built agentic AI product experiences for a browser-native automation platform — extension UI, marketing site, and design system.

  • Redesigned the Chromium extension with shadcn/ui and semantic design tokens
  • Managed and collaborated with 2 junior developers to ship features faster
  • Revamped website with MCP & Cursor — code-based handoff from initial Figma design
  • Built design system on shadcn/ui with AI-native components
  • Built multiple code-based prototypes for the sales team and feature development

Feb 2024 – Nov 2025

1 year 9 months

Pune, India · YC W21

Kodo

Lead Product Designer · Kodo

Led design on procure-to-pay flows for a YC W21 enterprise fintech product — translating complex finance and compliance requirements into intuitive workflows.

  • Built two Kodo design systems with native light/dark mode — Tamagui and MD3
  • Built new website in Framer with Framer Motion and custom React components
  • Launched Kodo ERP P2P (Procure-to-Pay) v1 with enterprise customers
  • Designed UPI app demo for NPCI
  • Bharat Connect integration design screens (NPCI approved)
  • Revamped Kodo's payment solution app with MD3 guidelines
  • Built multiple customer demos and prototypes (code-based and Figma)
  • Built 700+ component library on top of base design system

Dec 2021 – Jan 2024

2 years 1 month

Remote · YC S22

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Founding Designer · Unlogged

Led branding and product design as Videobug evolved into Unlogged, a YC S22 developer tool for debugging, testing, and replaying Java code.

  • Designed IntelliJ IDEA plugin
  • Designed and built website from scratch in Webflow
  • Designed web dashboard app
  • UX research, user testing, and prototyping
  • Branding and investor presentations
  • Led the product and visual identity across both Videobug and Unlogged
  • Built separate design systems for Videobug and Unlogged, including a modified Chakra UI system
  • Video editing for YouTube and LinkedIn
  • UI animations for marketing website

May 2020 – Dec 2021

1 year 7 months

Gurgaon, India · AuthMe Id Services

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Founding Designer · Tulr

Designed Tulr — a no-code platform combining videos, tables, forms, and calendars with automation. One-shot replacement for Airtable, Typeform, Calendly, and Loom.

  • Mobile and web product design for the no-code builder
  • Built Tulr design system with a 700+ custom component library
  • Branding, animation, social media, and Product Hunt launch
  • Owned founding product design and visual identity across web and mobile
  • Collaborated with a team of 7 developers

May 2020 – Jan 2021

8 months

Gurgaon, India

Graphic Designer · Freelance

Contract graphic design work across web, packaging, and brand assets for early-stage startups.

  • Strictly4Men website and packaging design
  • Tenxgeeks website design
  • Cloud-based gaming platform app

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019

3 months

Gurgaon, India

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Graphic Designer (Intern) · tenxresults

Brand and marketing design for a results-driven marketing agency.

  • Branding and print media
  • Social media ads and post design
  • WordPress development
  • Video editing

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018

1 year 11 months

Hisar, Haryana

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Graphic Designer & Co-founder · Wallzy

Built and designed an Android wallpaper app with custom editing tools.

  • Custom wallpapers and in-app editing tools
  • User analytics in Fabric (acquired by Firebase)
  • Branding and visual identity
  • 100K+ installs on Google Play

Education & certifications

B.Tech, Computer Science

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology

2014 – 2018 · Hisar, Haryana

UX Design Masterclass

UXDMC · Sep 2020

Credential ID 23119389

Skills & tools

Design capabilities and the tools I reach for day to day.

Design capabilities

Design Systems with TokensFigma Variables & Auto LayoutAdvanced PrototypingDesign DocsWeb ProductsMobile AppsWebsite DesignResponsive DesignUX ResearchDesign SprintsLean UXWireframingUI Animations

Design

Blender

3D modeling and rendering

Figma

UI design, prototyping

Adobe Creative Suite

Ai, Ae, XD, Premiere, Ps, In

Jitter

UI animation

Coding tools

Codex

AI-assisted development

Claude

AI-assisted workflows

Cursor

AI-native code editor

Antigravity

Agentic coding

v0

React UI generation

Research

Miro

UX research

FigJam

UX research

SurveyMonkey

User research

Maze

Usability testing

Build

Three.js

Interactive 3D experiences

Framer

Website development

Webflow

Website development

Analytics

Amplitude

User analytics

Google Analytics

User analytics

PostHog

User analytics

Ops

Notion

Project management

Languages

  • HindiNative
  • EnglishProfessional working

Interests

PhotographyInterior DesignArchitectureDJingGaming

Connect

Open to design engineering collaborations

Freelance, full-time, and founder partnerships across product design, design systems, and React UI. Based in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India.

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Akshay Saini

Product Designer / Design Engineer · Freelancing

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