# Nitya Rao > Senior Product Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nityarao I'm a senior product designer with 8+ years of design experience, with specific focus on emerging technologies and service based industries (finance, healthcare, etc). http://www.oaraytin.com/ ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Designer @ NexHealth Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Currently working on Developer experience, iOS, and internal tools for a patient experience platform connecting doctors, patients & developers. ### Lead Product Designer @ Valora Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 Leading product design at Valora, an a16z backed payments application. Our mission is to make it easy for people to save, spend & send stable currencies and enable access to a global financial ecosystem. ### Product Designer @ Valora Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Product Design Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked with startups and founders spanning multiple domains (consumer, mobile, b2b, enterprise etc.) Industries included: civic tech, healthcare, fintech, social networks, marketplaces, etc. ### Product Designer @ HPEC Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area HPEC is an identity and professional credential wallet which allows physicians to authenticate their own credentials and build and their professional network. I worked closely with the executive team (founder, CTO) to lead the end to end design for the onboarding and credential transfer flows, as well as an MVP for the community & groups features ### Interaction Designer @ Prime Trust Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area As a designer at Prime Trust, a digital token & FIAT custodian, I conducted user research with internal compliance teams to simplify complex & outdated internal tools for KYC & AML. At the same time, I worked with the head of design to generate a corresponding onboarding product for large institutions with multiple levels of permission. Prior to this, our team also designed, tested & launched consumer facing iOS & Android mobile banking products while maintaining & updating Prime Trust’s design system across all platforms. Our work often involved rapid prototyping, to communicate concepts & interaction flows to important stakeholders & customers. ### Climbing Coach and Yoga Teacher @ Planet Granite Sunnyvale Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 At Planet Granite, I taught classes on top rope belay and supervised gym members on their safety checks including checking harnesses, tying a figure 8 knot, using a belay device etc. I also coached the youth team (7-11 years old) on climbing techniques & training. We would discuss various challenges (fear of falling, feeling short, etc) and design lesson plans & technique to help kids grow into strong & excited athletes. I've been subbing yoga at Planet Granite Sunnyvale & San Francisco since January 2019. ### Research Ethics Marketing & Digital Intern @ University of California, San Diego - School of Medicine Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | UCSD Research Ethics Department Designed marketing collateral and updated HTML/CSS on the department website with the core intention of building community and encouraging attendance at various scientific & research ethics events on the UCSD School of Medicine campus. Took on additional responsibilities and multiple roles based on the changing needs of our small Research Ethics department within the larger UCSD School of Medicine. ### CRISPR Research Intern @ University of California, San Diego - School of Medicine Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | David Pride Lab Published: Pride, D.T., Sun C.L., Salzman J., Rao N., Loomer P., Armitage G.C., Banfield J.F., Relman D.A. 2011. Analysis of streptococcal CRISPRs from human saliva reveals substantial sequence diversity within and between subjects over time. Genome Res. 21: 126-136 Lab duties included extracting and purifying DNA from saliva, stool and blood samples. Preparatory work included nucleic acid cloning and gel extraction for PCR and genome sequencing. We used MS Excel to compile data. ## Education ### Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy A.T. Still University ### Product & Interaction Design Tradecraft ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physiology and Neuroscience with Minor in Philosophy UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/oaraytin - Website: https://oaraytin.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nityarao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nityarao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05