# Karthik Sivacharan

> Product Designer @ Trainwell | CMU ’23

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/karthiksivacharan

IC Product designer at Trainwell. I like both the messy 0→1 chaos of a product and the challenge of scaling existing ones. See my work at karthiksivacharan.me ↗

I code prototypes using LLMs as a hobby (design meets engineering).

Briefly worked in VC evaluating early-stage startups. Before that, co-founded a fitness SaaS.

Master's in Design & Business from Carnegie Mellon.

Always down to chat about design, bad product decisions, design systems (drama), or collaborate!

## Work Experience
### IC Product Designer @ trainwell
Jan 2024 – Present | Remote, US

### VC Investment Analyst @ Refinery Ventures
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

### Product Designer | Founding Product Team @ Backstage.Army
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

### Co-Founder | Design & Product @ Treadapp.co
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Built a SaaS tool for fitness trainers to streamline workflow and scale their business. Had fun while building it and learnt a lot!

### Summer Research | Consumer Neuromarketing @ The Wharton School
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Designed and implemented behavioural paradigms to study loss aversion and choice overloading in financial settings using eye-tracking and pupillometry.

### Summer Research | Social Entrepreneurship @ Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India


## Education
### Master's degree in Integrated Innovation for Products & Services, (Product Design + Business)
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karthik-sivacharan
- Portfolio: https://karthiksivacharan.me

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Last updated: 2026-03-25