# Chaitanya Mendu > Product Designer at Nightfall.AI • Designing Cloud-native, AI-powered Data Security Platform designed for cyber resilience, data security, and compliance teams. Location: Dublin, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chaitanyamendu I am currently designing Nightfall.Ai’s first Data Loss Prevention, Detection, and Response (DLP and DDR) platform. A product designer with over a decade of experience, I have worked in early-stage startups (Tekion, Fiddler, and LULA) and established corporations(VMware, Walmart, Google, and FirstRain). Throughout this journey, I've designed for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) contexts across web and mobile platforms. My approach to design is driven by solving problems with thoughtful design. I thrive on tackling complex challenges and turning them into innovative solutions, whether bringing a new concept from ideation to reality or contributing to strategic growth initiatives. I am particularly passionate about designing experiences, 0 -> 1 products, blue-sky projects, strategic growth design, high-craft interaction, and visual design. My background in engineering makes me a systems thinker who naturally gravitates toward strategy and product problems with intense attention to detail and care for driving impact through great products. I firmly believe in the power of inclusive teams and collaborative environments. I recognize the significance of open communication, diverse perspectives, and constructive feedback in creating outstanding products. Ultimately, I am committed to achieving both the end result and a rewarding journey to that destination. Things I care about and value as a designer: 🤝 Teamwork • 🙏🏽 Respect • ❤️ Compassion • 😊 Joy • ✅ Get things done • 🎗️ Support others If you are interested in knowing more about me and my design work, please reach out and drop me a line. :) ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Nightfall AI Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area At Nightfall, we help companies protect sensitive data in SaaS applications like Slack, Google Drive and Zendesk. Our technology connects to SaaS applications, detects the most critical sensitive data risks, and puts automated policies in place to ensure these risks don’t happen again in the future. ### Independent Product Design Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Present Helping companies of various sizes reach their product and design goals. Projects vary but include collaborating with founders to establish MVPs, providing in-house product design support, assisting with user research, and setting up a design system. Clients include: Lula and Attune ### Founding Design Fellow @ On Deck Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Working on up-leveling my leadership skills with the top-tier designers! https://www.beondeck.com/designers ### Product Designer @ Gem Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design of the pre-built dashboard templates for recruiting teams, customized by role to generate charts and see relevant insights faster. With templates, you can start tracking dashboards faster and track key behaviors immediately. Insights and metrics matter the most to your business. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to present design solutions to stakeholders while refining Gem's dashboard template library experience and design strategy and delivering MVP to all the analytics customers. ### Senior Product Designer @ Handshake Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Design lead for educational institutions' product initiatives at Handshake. ### Product Designer @ Forge Studio Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States ### Product Designer @ Fiddler Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA As the founding designer at Fiddler, I collaborated with a small, agile product team to help lead the design and development of the company's flagship product (a next-generation Explainable AI Platform for enterprise data science teams) by clearly articulating the presentation and organization of features and functionality. I leveraged design to bring our vision to life, translating business and customer goals into a seamless user experience. At Fiddler, I used my design expertise to create innovative solutions that improved the new platform user experience and helped drive business growth. ### Founding Product Designer @ Tekion Corp Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Ramon, CA ### Senior Product Designer @ FirstRain (acquired by Ignite Technologies, Inc. in August 2017) Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo Design lead for FirstRain’s next generation personalized business analytics platform and end-to-end user experience across cross - functional platforms such as mobile, tablet and desktop. Ensure proposed design solutions meet user needs and strategic business goals. Collaborate with Creative Director and Product Manager to define high-level functional requirements and design reviews. Define and create design concepts that not only address user needs but also align with business goals, rapid clickable prototypes to validate high-level design ideas, create user scenarios/task for usability testing, and drive the project from start to finish. Always incorporated usability feedback and field research findings into the product design. Created a visual and functional design of reusable components to build new panels effectively. Projects: Web Application Redesign, Calendar POC for iPhone App, Email Briefs, Channel Brief, Account Brief, Onboarding, StartHere, SFDC Component v1 and v2, Context view, Invitation Emails. ### User Experience Designer @ VMware Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA Redesigned license key searches, end-to-end user experience for license key management customer experience product. Collaborated with Product Managers and Engineers on high-level design & functional review meetings. Worked with My VMware licensing portal CX Strategist, Creative Director and UI engineers to strategize and create next generation interactions and widgets for use in all My VMware frameworks. Created high fidelity, low-fidelity wireframes and clickable prototype for usability testing. Worked with an external user testing agency on usability testing and incorporated usability feedback and field research findings into the iterative design process. Collaborated with other designers to define interaction patterns for VMware UI patterns library site v1 for consistent design and development process across all VMware portals and products. Projects: Licensing search feature, Pattern Library, Subscription Delivery Platform and License key management. ### Interactive UI/UX Designer - Google Geo-Commerce @ Google Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, CA Responsible for designing the end-to-end user experience for AdWords and AdSense billing and payments for international Markets such as Brazil, China, SouthKorea, Russia, and Android Market. Collaborated with Product Managers and cross-functional business teams to produce design concepts that are not only intuitive but also that meet strategic goals. Created definition and experience briefs, user flows, wireframes, visual comps, and rapid, lightweight interactive prototypes. Incorporated usability feedback and field research findings into the product design. Projects: Adwords and Adsense. ### Mobile UI Designer @ Walmart Global eCommerce Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Brisbane, CA Worked in an agile environment with multi-disciplinary teams. Translated technical user requirements into aesthetic & usable interfaces. Successfully created the UX & UI for mobile devices such as (iOS, Android,RIM and Mobile Web). Participated in high level design & functionality review meetings. Collaboratively worked with senior designes, Creative Director, and Project Manager to refine the UI’s appearance and experience. As UI Designer, Ihandledr creating the user experience and user interface for mobile devices such as (iOS, Android, RIM and Mobile Web) for the world’s largest retailer. Also responsible for creating technical specification documents and global visual style guide for mobile spaces such as iOS, Android, RIM and Mobile Web, which outline the principles and standards for creation of Apps and Mobile website for Walmart Global eCommerce. These technical specification documents were used by designers, developers, and product owners. It aims to establish a consistent quality of treatment for fundamental branding elements across Walmart Global eCommerce. Projects: iOS, Android, RIM App and Mobile Web. ### Graphic Designer @ Fearnside Tennis Academy Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Livermore, CA Responsible for design & management of public-facing marketing materials including branding and event graphics. ### Web Designer @ LifeLong Medical Care Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Oakland, CA Collaborated with LifeLongMedical Care design and editorial departments on content and layout. Sourced photography with LifeLongMedical Care brand and style guidelines and 
composed comps for LifeLong Medical Care review. Created webpage modules and Front End development using HTML & CSS, uploaded them to CMS, and adjusted HTML code. ### Web & Graphic Designer @ Taproot Foundation Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 I've been a pro-bono volunteer web & Graphic designer through Taproot Foundation since 2004. I've had the pleasure of working with a team of volunteers completing Advance Website grants. ### Web Designer @ Whittier Street Health Center Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Roxbury, MA Collaborated with Creative Director to produce design concepts and interactive experiences to meet strategic goals. Successfully transitioned client’s brand to digital realm by delivering designs that are visually appealing and easy to use. Created wireframes, visual design, Information Architecture, sitemap, front-end development, coded templates, CMS integration, production testing and launch on test server. ### Senior Visual Designer @ Herbal Beauty Care Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Hyderabad, INDIA Designed and developed web site for Herbal Beauty Care. Developed Information Architecture, sitemap, visual design, front-end development (HTML/CSS), coded templates, production testing and launch. ### Web Designer @ Partners HealthCare Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Chelmsford, MA Conceptualized, redesigned and developed a new intranet website for Partners HealthCare Finance department and web portal for new hires. Provided heuristic evaluation of pre-existing website. Collaborated with various departments in various stages of web site redesign such as Planning, Information Architecture, sitemap, wireframes, visual design, front-end development (XHTML/CSS/JavaScript), production testing and launch. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design Northeastern University ### Diploma in Multimedia and Software Technology CMC Limited, Andhra Pradesh, India ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chaitanyamendu - Portfolio: http://www.chaitanya.design - Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/Achaitanya --- Source: https://flows.cv/chaitanyamendu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chaitanyamendu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13