Akhil Suresh Sastry

Overview

I lead B2B dashboards at Salesforce in Mumbai. Built a component library 35 engineers ship with every day. Before that: Accenture and Nvidia. Most at home with information architecture and Figma. Travel slowly, usually by train.

Experience

1. Design Manager

   Sep 2024 - Present
   Salesforce · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Built a component library 43 engineers ship with every day.
   • Shipped the enterprise redesign that lifted task completion 15%.
   • Cut support tickets about enterprise by 36% with clearer copy and states.
2. UX Researcher

   Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
   Accenture · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped the enterprise redesign that lifted task completion 18%.
   • Cut support tickets about enterprise by 49% with clearer copy and states.
3. UX Researcher

   Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
   Nvidia · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped the enterprise redesign that lifted task completion 19%.
4. Senior Product Designer

   Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
   Larsen & Toubro · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Shipped the enterprise redesign that lifted task completion 36%.
   • Brought the enterprise flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
5. Product Designer

   Mar 2016 - Apr 2018
   Groww · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
   • Ran 135 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.

Projects

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Education

1. IIT Kanpur

   B.Tech, Industrial Design
   2006 - 2010