# Keerthana Ravikumar > UX Engineer @ KPMG | UX/Product Designer | Frontend Development Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/keerthanaravikumar I am a Senior UX Design Engineer with a unique blend of design expertise and technical fluency. I am passionate about crafting tech products that shape human behavior and blending into their everyday world. At CANVS Street Art, I led the design of a first-of-its-kind web app that supports the sourcing, creation, cultural engagement, and exploration of street art. I am energized by navigating ambiguous, culture-driven industry, while tackling the challenge of keeping the design technically aligned and highly implementable to ensure a seamless handoff between design and development. My strengths lie in bridging design vision with technical realities so every solution is both beautiful to use and feasible to build. I bring curiosity, empathy, and strategic thinking to every project, approaching challenges with openness, thoughtfulness, and a drive to continuously learn. I excel at asking the right questions, absorbing feedback, and creating experiences that not only delight users but also inspire and elevate teams. ## Work Experience ### UX Engineer @ KPMG US Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Senior Product Designer @ CANVS Jan 2024 – Present | New Jersey, United States - Owned the end-to-end design of the CANVS web app, leading initiatives across dashboard development, frictionless onboarding, and design system authoring. - Partnered with engineers to ship a customizable dashboard that improved tour and exhibit management efficiency by 35%, while unlocking new revenue opportunities. - Built a scalable design system from scratch, improving component reuse and enabling faster prototyping for cross-platform expansion. - Reduced design-to-dev time by 2 months by translating wireframes into React modules for an organizer dashboard, streamlining the tour creation process. - Authored and maintained system documentation to ensure consistency and accessibility standards, reducing QA cycles by 25%. ### Product Designer @ Mean Genius Jan 2024 – Present | New Jersey, United States - Increased partnerships by 32% by redesigning the health department's web app to better promote and empower local organizations focused on community health. - Connected residents to 500+ partners and 1,200+ events by designing and launching a public health web app in under 4 weeks, accelerating access to local wellness resources. - Drove a 25K increase in monthly active users by redefining the information architecture and content outline to provide residents access to public and community health services. - Improved usability satisfaction scores by conducting over 10 rounds of client collaboration and iteration, using Airtable and React, to refine the display of community health events with a live calendar view- ### Design leadership fellow @ Design for America Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States - Optimizing task assignments and timelines for new studio leaders, resulting in improved alignment in roles and skills and timely deliverables to community partners. - Drove a 15% increase in studio membership by offering an initial roadmap, mentorship and guidance to prestigious institutions such as MIT, Yale, Barnard Columbia, and Rutgers. - Categorized user personas based on state of leadership, studio size, and mentor support, resulting in more targeted resource ideation and improved user segment support. ### UX Design Lead @ Design for America of NYU Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area - Revived dormant studio by forming and guiding a skilled 5-person leadership team within 3 months resulting in launching 3 projects and recruiting 40 new members. - Redesigned the DFA website, emphasizing user interface design through mood boards, color theory, and layouts which lead to a 30% increase in traffic. - Uncovered NYU health service gaps by exploring student perceptions via contextual inquiries, task analysis, and surveys. ### UX Designer @ Design for America of NYU Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area - Revitalized Freedge (a community fridge at NYU) by collaboration with stakeholders, "Friends of Freedge" campaign and zero-waste workshops to heighten awareness on food insecurity and wastages. ### Frontend Developer @ IKS Health Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Took ownership of end-to-end product design for patient data management during ER visits. - Documented design libraries using best practices by enhancing component design and iconography, resulting in better prototyping efficiency and ADA compliance - Conducted usability testing, iterated to optimize user flow, and improved API integrations, which resulted in a 3-minute decrease in task completion during patient record entry. ### Frontend Developer Intern @ Nissan Digital India LLP Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Trivandrum, Kerala, India - Transformed three sales websites into responsive designs using sass, flexbox, grids and other libraries, resulting in a 40% increase in mobile traffic. - Prioritized globalization by performing i18 internationalization to scale user engagement in Japan by 19%. - Developed front end modules with Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Employed observables and RxJS for cross-component communication and asynchronous operations. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science NYU Tandon School of Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Bachelor of Technology in Software Engineering SRM IST Chennai Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/keerthana-ravikumar-design - Website: https://www.krdesigns.live/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/keerthanaravikumar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/keerthanaravikumar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01