I’m Akshay, a product design leader with 11+ years across FinTech, SaaS and public-service products. I lead teams, shape product decisions and build systems that help design and engineering move with clarity.
Selected work
A focused selection of professional work across regulated FinTech, digital lending and inclusive public-service products. Confidential work is presented through sanitized reconstruction.
Leading UX strategy, flows, interface design and design-system decisions across customer apps and back-office operations—including KYC, multi-currency transfers and transaction-limit configuration.
Read Case Study →Led a six-person design team across the complete lending journey. Simplified document-heavy KYC through DigiLocker with a manual fallback, and surfaced repayment on the homepage after prototype testing exposed a discovery problem.
Read case study →Designed a Marathi-first crop and land-recording experience for Maharashtra’s farmers. Paired icons with text to support different literacy levels and accounted for unreliable connectivity through offline functionality.
Read case study →AI & systems practice
My independent systems work explores how AI and automation can improve design operations without making optional integrations a point of failure.
Earlier work
Supporting work showing cross-platform execution and experience designing for rural development contexts.
How I lead
My role extends from hands-on design decisions to the operating mechanisms that keep teams aligned and delivery reliable.
Translate business and user inputs into clear problem statements, priorities and measurable product decisions.
Create reusable components, review practices and decision records so quality does not depend on individual memory.
Account for fallbacks, recovery, edge cases and operational constraints—not only the ideal journey.
Let’s work together
I’m exploring Senior Product Designer, Lead Product Designer and Design Management opportunities where complex products, systems thinking and team leadership matter.