# Ajay Alfred > Design for Agents Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ajayalfred With 10+ years of experience, I'm passionate about making complex ideas feel effortless through thoughtful product design. I love shaping AI and data-driven tools that actually help people think faster, work smarter, and get more done. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Databricks Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, CA Design lead/manager for LLM-powered Agent system builder products (Playground, Agent Bricks) with a focus on producing high-quality, evaluation powered, and SME validated workflows. ### Sr. Staff Designer @ Celonis Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Lead Product Designer @ Celonis Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Staff Product Designer @ Cruise Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Design lead for Cruise AI's internal ML platform called Centra. Responsible for defining product UX, information architecture, design system, and user journey maps for a fragmented ecosystem of tools being unified under one platform moniker. ### Sr. Interaction Designer @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington ### Interaction Designer @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, WA ### UX Design Assistant - ACA, UW IT @ University of Washington Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | University of Washington, Seattle ### UX Design Intern @ Amazon Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 My intern project involved re-designing an important piece of the Amazon Supply (www.amazonsupply.com) product detail page known as the 'variation table'. The goal was to streamline and improve the buying experience, improve baseline usability, and improve discoverability of hidden features. ### Research Assistant @ Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 - Responsible for creating infographics and design elements for The Global Impact Study of Public Access to Information & Communication Technologies research report and website. ### Assistant Web Developer @ UW Creative Communications Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 - Usability and interface improvements to roomQ – a room reservation system used for the Health Sciences Building (UW Medical Sciences). - Usability improvements to CertMaker - an online certificate request system used by the Office of Graduate Medical Education. ### Solution Consultant @ Infosys Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 - Involved in presenting Finacle Digital Commerce (FDC) to a number of global clients (Vodafone, Barclaycard, TELUS, etc.) in the role of Solution Consultant. - Played a key role in business, market, solution fit and competitive analysis. - Prototyped and presented a beta version of FDC to Standard Bank, South Africa, that helped win a very large deal for the rollout and implementation of FDC across 13 countries in the African continent. ### Systems Engineer @ Infosys Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 - Part of a small development team that implemented India’s first mobile payments platform 'airtel money' (http://www.airtel.in/money/) . Product launched globally by Infosys as Finacle Digital Commerce (FDC). - First-of-its-kind project in India that provides ubiquitous mobile payment options to customers. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Human Centered Design and Engineering University of Washington Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajayalfred - Portfolio: https://www.ajayalfred.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/ajayalfred JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ajayalfred/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30