# Harshath JR > People, Products and Perspective Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harshath I'm a user experience designer, with a focus on interaction design and prototyping. I have a holistic outlook in my work, and think of design as a great way of helping a product realize its vision. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ VMware Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ VMware Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Product Designer @ VMware Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto ### UX Designer @ Netskope Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### UX Designer @ Unscrambl, Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 I'm currently driving the UX design for our marketing automation product. I work with our CEO, domain experts and sales & marketing folks, interview and gather feedback from potential users, draw up wireframes and mockups, present designs to get feedback, and coordinate with the front-end engineering team to bring our product from vision to reality. ### UX Designer @ Worldpay Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 At Worldpay I worked to understand the process of Merchant Onboarding from the ground-up, and drew up plans on how to redesign the onboarding process. ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Atlanta, GA I'm Currently doing user studies with public transit riders, and usability testing for OneBusAway to improve the usability of its mobile interface. I also maintain and improve the Atlanta instance of OneBusAway so that Atlantans have access to realtime public transit information. Previously, I worked with the Institute of People and Technology (IPaT) to build and maintain drupal websites of research institutes under the umbrella of IPaT. ### UX Designer Intern @ Apple Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino I worked with a team that was mostly comprised of engineers, and did a ground-up redesign of an internally used web application used for monitoring application performance. I helped them prioritize their use cases based on real usage history, and reflect that prioritization on the new interface. ### Analyst Developer @ Goldman Sachs Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 Worked as a software developer, and quickly transitioned into a more user experience focused role. As a UX designer, I interacted with users, contributed to requirements gathering, performed contextual enquiries and drew out personas and use cases iteratively. As a software developer, my job touched all aspects of a typical software development life cycle: requirements gathering, technical design and development, automated unit and integration testing, and user acceptance testing. ### Co-founder @ Mastmenu.com Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore I had co-founded an online food ordering service called mastmenu.com. I was primarily responsible for ensuring a great customer experience during all interactions with our company. I designed and developed the website, drew out customer phone support protocols and built an administrative interface optimized for fast order processing. ### Web Developer @ Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | IIT Varanasi At my undergraduate college I was the web developer for three different technical festivals' websites held between 2007 and 2010. I was also involved in the redesign and rebuild the CS department website from the ground up during the same period. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Human Computer Interaction Georgia Institute of Technology ### BTech in Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jrharshath - Website: http://harshath.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/harshath JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harshath/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23