# Nikhil Sethi > Design at Datadog Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhil Product designer focused on solving complex problems. ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ Datadog Jan 2026 – Present | New York, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Pave Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States ### Product Designer @ Apple Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Worked on Apple Business Essentials and Internal Tooling ### Product Designer @ Fleetsmith Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Acquired by Apple in June 2020. ### Contract Product Designer @ Exposure Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area Assisted in a variety of tasks and designed “Broadcast” profile layout used by a variety of major users, including Purdue University News ### Product Design Intern @ BuzzFeed Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area • Designed Preview functionality to Vidder, our internal video editing tool, at the request of users • Re-imagined the workflow for exporting and publishing videos in Vidder in order to increase user confidence and reduce the number of videos that weren’t logged in our internal databases • Reduced complexity of clip editing tools within Vidder by combining two interfaces • Conducted user testing to improve usability and get user feedback throughout the process and supplement feedback from other designers • Audited internal tools for inconsistencies in messaging and began iterating on designs for updates to the design system to be more robust and meet accessibility standards • Developed a product spec focused on BuzzFeed Community to inform the roadmaps of two related tech teams ### Designer @ Graph House Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Atlanta Area Graph House is a Georgia Tech-based agency consisting of designers, producers, and makers who provide creative services and marketing solutions for organizations and startups. I've completed UI, branding and logo design contracts for local startups and student organizations such as Speakalytics and Triia. ### UX Strategy and Analysis Intern @ FOCUS Brands Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Atlanta Area • Analyzed dozens of user sessions to develop benchmarks for product performance and generated reports to compare • Designed wireframes based on user data, stakeholder interviews and known user patterns. Iterated on wireframe designs based on feedback from paper prototyping and stakeholder reviews • Built low fidelity prototypes using Invision and moderated usability tests to identify opportunities for improvement • Developed UX guidelines to minimize usability flaws in all future projects company-wide • Conducted usability research on catering systems of brands and competitors to inform decisions regarding the 2018 Product roadmap ### Web Development Intern - Internal Applications @ ADP Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Alpharetta, Georgia As a part of the Innovation arm of the Internal Applications department: • Developed a Node.js web service to interface with Amazon Voice Services as a vital piece of an application to automate customer service • Built a Web Component using Polymer.js and a SQL Server database to simplify the process of adding help links to ADP pages and increasing overall usability ### Engineering & Marketing Operations Intern @ Catavolt, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Alpharetta, GA • Performed competitive analysis on the largest enterprise mobile application platforms in the same market • Customized the company's Salesforce Instance with workflow and validation rules to improve efficiency of sales calls • Analyzed sales data regarding effectiveness at targeting different functions of manufacturing operations to find more relevant leads • Used JUnit to write unit tests to check the functionality of classes necessary for the Catavolt platform to run. ### Software Dev Intern @ The Rainmaker Group Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Alpharetta, GA • Created digital maps between the primary Web Applica ons and databases using SQL and Excel as documentation • Wrote stored procedures to drive performance improvements in database reads ### Product Intern @ TeamWorks, LLC Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Milton, GA • Brainstormed and created mockups for new designs and features to integrate into product roadmap • Conducted extensive user research by watching hours of user sessions and identifying key usability issues • Developed help articles in order to improve the usability of the overall application, especially for more powerful features ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computational Media Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhilrsethi - Website: http://niksethi.com - GitHub: http://github.com/NikSethi --- Source: https://flows.cv/nikhil JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nikhil/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23