# Aarya Harkare

> Designer + Engineer | UC Berkeley Master of Design | Digital Product Design | XR Design & Interactions

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aarya

Designer and engineer with 5+ years building products from 0→1. I've raised funding from Snap, shipped production-ready AI tools, and redesigned B2B products that landed enterprise clients. I work across the full stack — from user research and Figma to frontend and backend — with a founder's mindset and an obsession with ownership.

## Work Experience
### Founder @ DevFlow
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building AI tools for developers

### Founder, Lead Designer and Engineer @ FastLane | Snap Inc.
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Berkeley, California, United States
- Raised over $30k from Snap, Inc. to build AR shopping platform on Spectacles with hyper-personalization and automated checkout.
- Engineered zero-command gesture recognition and behavior prediction to auto-manage cart operations from natural actions (reaching, holding, placing), with 85% accuracy across 600+ test cases — pioneering novel interaction paradigm that reduces friction in AR .
- Designed and engineered end-to-end AR system in Lens Studio, implementing 20+ features like wrist-mounted UI and precision gesture controls, with 85% user satisfaction and 70% faster task completion.
- Architected compute framework to distribute load between glasses and phone lowering power consumption by 30% and reducing latency by 70% compared to cloud computing.
- Developed backend with MongoDB, fine-tuned AI agents, and dynamic function calling processing 100+ SKU s at 90% accuracy with sub-1s latency for 3 concurrent agentic tasks.

### Atelier AI | Lead Engineer @ Berkeley SkyDeck
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Berkeley, CA
Architected AI-powered wardrobe styling system including recommendation engine, backend API infrastructure, and data pipelines optimized for minimal token usage— enabling personalized outfit suggestions from digitized closets.

### Product Designer @ FinBox
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Designed Sentinel from the ground up, transforming an early concept into a scalable product, attracting 15+ banks and NBFCs to partner with us within 8 months.
- Reduced product launch timeline from 8 to 4 months, through optimised design-to-development workflows, improving collaboration and efficiency.
- Led a cross-functional team of developers and designers, ensuring smooth execution and overcoming challenges in UI consistency and scalability.
- Led the efforts for design of workflow studio, enabling clients to create policies with a drag-and-drop interface, eliminating coding, allowing them to scale operations effortlessly.
- Increased user engagement on Sentinel website by 12x through a targeted redesign and SEO integration.

### Product Designer @ FlytBase
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Built the 2022 product roadmap, scoping and defining 80+ features leading 120% increase in subscription count.
- Led the platform redesign, improving usability and driving 80% user satisfaction and high client retention.
- Increased design and development speed by 3x by building a scalable design system and templating large UI components.
- Designed and implemented automated subscription management, improving user autonomy and reducing support dependency.
- Designed role-based access control systems & SSO login, enabling enterprise clients to manage their teams and  organisations effectively.

### Product Design - Intern @ FlytBase
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pune, Maharashtra, India


## Education
### Master of Design in Digital Product Design/XR/AR/VR
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electronics and Telecommunications
Pune Institute of Computer Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aarya-harkare-06b9411a4
- Portfolio: https://aaryaharkare.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-13