# Akshay Deshpande > Senior Digital Product Designer | Former UX and Front-end Engineer | MS-HCI from UMD Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akshaydeshpande Senior Product/UX Designer specialised in building B2B SaaS products and design systems from the ground up. Prior work experience in various roles as a UX engineer, front-end and back-end engineer. MS in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. ## Work Experience ### Senior UX Designer @ F5 Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Austin, Texas, United States • Led the UX design for F5’s NGINX One SaaS product - a cloud-based B2B product that helps customers manage their NGINX instances (servers). • Delivered features like dashboards, AI assistants, infrastructure monitoring and configuration management tools that simplified complex user journeys and workflows and helped secure individual contracts of up to US $12.5 million. • Established a design-led culture by producing high-fidelity wireframes as the source of truth for every UI feature. This brought clarity and alignment across stakeholders at all levels and accelerated release timelines. • Synthesised customer feedback and worked cross functionally with product managers, engineers and other designers to design new functionality and improve engagement and customer confidence for F5’s NGINX Management Suite product. ### Product Designer & UX Engineer @ Fungible, Inc., Acquired by Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Reston, Virginia, United States • Researched and designed interfaces that simplified new functionality for Fungible's composable infrastructure-management products - Fungible Data Center and Fungible GPU Connect. • Established the company’s Design System and improved on web components for it using Angular, HTML, CSS, SASS. • Implemented and refined in code aspects of the Design System like typography, color palettes, component variants, etc. • Streamlined design to development processes by creating UI component reference and style guides. • Identified usability issues of current and future product features and provided fixes to improve them. ### Product Designer - UX Engineer @ Compose.Cloud Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Reston, Virginia - Researched, designed and conceptualized the MVP of a complex, infrastructure-management product which eventually became the "Fungible Data Center" product. ### Product Designer & UX Engineer @ Cloudistics Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area - Researched, designed and prototyped interfaces that simplified new functionality in a complex, infrastructure-management product. ### Frontend Engineer @ Cloudistics Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area - Implemented front-end solutions to improve the user experience and user interface of the core product. - Developed new functionality with AngularJS and Angular, and fixed bugs for Cloudistics’ web-based cloud management portal, along with localizing the product for international markets. ### Graduate Assistant (IT Developer) @ University of Maryland Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | College Park, Maryland - Developed web applications for student/event management as a full-stack developer with MySQL, ASP.NET, and various front-end technologies for multiple departments throughout a high-volume Student Union. - Nominated for an employee award for commitment to customer service and mentoring of junior student employees. - Communicated effectively with internal University clients to understand, plan and execute projects. ### Intern @ DrFirst, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Rockville, MD - Designed two new features for a key client in a secure messaging application called Backline. This involved various UX processes like user research, creating personas, workflows, detailed wireframes, high-fidelity clickable prototypes, and performing user testing. - Optimized and refactored CSS using tools like Grunt.js for Patient Advisor, a medical patient adherence product. ### Software Engineer @ Tieto Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Pune Area, India - Developed modules of an administrative system that integrates with Sweden’s centralized population registry to help schools manage their student, teacher and administrative data. This system will be used by almost every educational institute in Sweden. - Founded and coordinated a local UX community to learn, practice and teach UX design. Received employee award for leading workshops to teach better UX practices for the web. - Used CSS3, JavaScript, and Bootstrap to ensure that the UI-UX is modern, easy to use and consistent across the entire project. ### Developer @ June Software Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Pune Area, India - Ported existing unified API for 40 mobile applications from Node.js to ASP.NET MVC. This API handles around a million requests/hour at its peak. - Solely responsible for the development (in C#), porting and maintenance of all Windows Phone apps, which have had a total of 4,00,000+ downloads. - Created and designed APIs and MongoDB schemas for iOS games/applications that needed a server-side component, several of which reached the top charts on the iOS App Store. - Improved App Store downloads and ratings by working with data analysts to improve the design and marketing of mobile applications based on usage data. - Developed and designed several websites for educational apps, and also internal admin and data analysis tools that worked with various Mongo, MySQL and MS-SQL databases. 
 - Heavily contributed towards the design of, and text used in applications, games, marketing ad campaigns and mobile App Stores. - Additionally did the sound design and sound effects for several recent games. - Created proof-of-concept applications for HTML mobile games using PhoneGap. ### Software Developer @ Intellista Software Studios Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Pune Area, India - Developed a Facebook game called “The Admogul” as part of a 4-member team, that was optimized for speed by using only Javascript, jQuery and AJAX requests. - Developed web applications for clients with ASP.NET, JavaScript, MySQL and PHP. - Wrote custom role-management and user group handling in PHP for a site so that various users could only access appropriate areas and edit appropriate data. - Worked with Ruby scripts and Amazon Mechanical Turk for certain projects. ### Software Developer @ ThinkingSpace Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interaction University of Maryland ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering Savitribai Phule Pune University ### High School in Computer Science Fergusson College ### S.S.C. J.N. Petit Technical High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshaydp - Portfolio: https://www.akshaydeshpande.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/akshaydeshpande JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akshaydeshpande/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31