# Harsha Malhotra > Product builder Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harshamalhotra Product Designer with a background in user experience, engineering and strategy! I believe in building meaningful and valuable experiences, that are worthwhile and rewarding to the humans that use the products I make. My process involves figuring out the missing pieces, breaking down the complexity, solving the real problems and communicating the stories and solutions in a mindful way. Outside of work, I love working out because of the positive side effects to my mental health. I also enjoy cooking because it’s like art; following a process and then ending up creating something unique every-time with little changes and improvements. ## Work Experience ### Principal Staff Product Designer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Led the design for attack surface management module of Cortex, the next gen platform for cybersecurity teams. I was responsible for creating the vision, workflows, architecture, low fidelity to pixel perfect mocks for assets, issues, dashboards and configuration. ### Senior Product Manager @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area 2024-2025: Currently working on building the next-generation of zero to one Cortex platform, powered by AI to support cybersecurity teams to make their attack surface secure. 2025: I am currently working on improving the customer journey across various modules to unify the customer experience. I am also leading the dashboard and reporting areas of the platform. 2024: My focus primarily had been on building workflows and mitigation strategies to enhance and empower the security analysts and managers to manage their attack surface. This included triaging, analysis and remediation aspect of the security personas. ### Senior Staff UX Designer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Led the migration of Expander to the platform, post acquisition and prioritizing workflows that the new customers and existing users could make use of to keep their blast radius secure. ### Senior Product Designer @ Expanse, A Palo Alto Networks Company Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Got acquired by Palo Alto Networks in Dec, 2020 ### Product Designer @ Infoblox Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Collaborated with PMs, engineering, and marketing of multiple offices to lead the redesign of Dossier, an enterprise product focused on security and threat intelligence - Lead designer on all security products (Dossier, Threat Insight, ATC) at Infoblox - Set up the process for user research for the company - Conducted user research on a weekly basis alongside PMs to understand user requirements - Contributed to all the steps of UX design from drafting user stories and creating user flows to designing interaction patterns and high fidelity prototypes ### Freelance Designer @ Freelancing (Hire me!) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area I have experience doing user research, task analysis, wireframes, flow diagrams, and other deliverables. I have high proficiency in design tools like Sketch, Adobe Suite CC, Invision, Balsamiq. You can see examples of my work at http://harshamalhotra.me. (Please note that some of my work are covered by non-disclosure agreements and I am open to talk about them in person.) ### Scenario Designer @ Google through Adecco Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Contracted through Adecco to work on the self-driving car team. - Designed test scenarios for the self-driving car. - Quality controlled work of others in a team of 5 using Google’s internal tools and Jira. - Mentored two new associates and helped them onboard quickly and effectively. ### Relationship Manager @ HDFC Bank Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New Delhi Area, India I worked with Working Capital Division of Business Banking. I was responsible for doing due diligence and deriving financial ratios to decide the credit limits to be extended to large textile business. ### User & Market Research Intern @ ITC Hotels Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New Delhi Area, India My contribution to this project included: - Conducting a competitive market analysis to generate strategic insights. - Running a usability test of the ITC website. - Conducting field test using surveys on potential and existing customers staying at competing luxury hotels. ## Education ### Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Marketing and Finance University Business School, Panjab University ### xPRO in Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### UX Design/ UX Research Bloc ### User Experience Design General Assembly ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Punjab Technical University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harshamalhotra - Portfolio: https://substack.com/@hmalhotra?r=edae1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile --- Source: https://flows.cv/harshamalhotra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harshamalhotra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13