# Rahul Awasty > Founding Product Designer @ Letter AI | Ex-Amazon, AWS Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rahulawasty Product Designer passionate about crafting meaningful user experiences that blend intuitive and elegant designs with impactful solutions. With a deep commitment to user-centric methodologies, I specialize in leveraging design thinking to solve complex challenges. My background spans across prototyping, interaction design, and usability studies, enabling me to create seamless digital experiences that resonate with users. Driven by a curiosity for understanding user behavior, I excel in prototyping, utilizing design systems, and conducting usability studies to refine products for optimal usability. My proficiency in tools like Figma and Adobe CC also allows me to translate ideas into visually compelling designs, while my grasp of HTML/CSS, Python, and Swift enables me to effectively and efficiently collaborate with engineering teams. Beyond technical skills, I bring strong communication and collaboration skills, enabling me to foster partnerships with cross-functional teams and develop projects from concept to launch. My dedication to continuous learning and staying updated with industry trends empowers me to deliver innovative solutions that exceed user expectations. ## Work Experience ### Founding Product Designer @ Letter AI Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Founding Product Designer @ Stealth AI Startup Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA ### User Experience Designer @ Amazon Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Walmart Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area • Strategically shaped Walmart Health's consumer-facing website visual refresh north-star vision, creating 80+ mockup frames and 3 prototypes using Walmart's design system to significantly boost sign-up rates. • Partnered with lead designers and UX researchers to conduct user research, empathize with users, and identify pain points, leading to the development of new, human-centered features for our virtual care products, which increased user engagement by 30%. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product managers and developers, as part of a product trio in an agile framework. • Presented designs to product leadership and stakeholders in design reviews, providing clear rationale to support design choices and why they would best serve the user. • Identified and resolved over 50 critical bugs in the code by closely working with an international engineering team in weekly meetings during the QA process, improving product quality by 20%. ### Product Designer @ jaris, inc Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Proactively conducted in-depth user research and competitor analysis to deeply understand our SaaS users and identify key user needs and market trends, leveraging these insights to inform design decisions that boosted user satisfaction metrics by 15%. • Designed key internal tools and workflows for managing financials, dashboards, and payments experiences for complex B2B clients. • Developed user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and mockups using Figma while maintaining an accessible and inclusive design system. • Led and participated in design critiques and ideation sessions with cross-functional stakeholders from UX, product, and engineering. • Presented design concepts to stakeholders, incorporating their feedback to align with business goals and user needs, resulting in a 20% increase in user satisfaction metrics. • Collaborated closely with Product Team leadership to conduct weekly design reviews, ensuring consistency and providing feedback to improve adherence to established design standards, resulting in an increase in overall product quality. • Proactively identified and resolved over 14 critical bugs that developers missed during the Quality Assurance (QA) process. ### User Experience Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington • Designed and shipped four complex, enterprise UX projects autonomously, creating intuitive, elegant, and simple experiences for global warehouse, data center, and developer users ahead of schedule. One project is expected to generate ~ $700 million in revenue. Received high accolades from AWS senior leadership and was highlighted during the Monthly Business Review (MBR). • Conducted in-depth user research, including independent usability studies, to identify pain points, click paths, and themes, which generated data-driven design solutions. Leveraged insights to inform designs, resulting in a 15% increase in user satisfaction ratings. • Led design reviews with fellow designers, product, engineering, and leadership teams, presenting work and articulating design decisions to ensure alignment on project goals and vision, resulting in a design sign-off for my projects. • Developed user flows, information architecture diagrams, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes in Figma using AWS’ design system to maintain consistency throughout adjacent products and iterate rapidly. • Collaborated closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, writers, and operations teams to resolve conflicting priorities and build a consensus around a user-centered design solution, preventing the launch of a poor user experience due to technical constraints. • Partnered closely with a global engineering team in India and China to analyze design specifications, resulting in a 20% decrease in bugs, ensuring a seamless experience across the application, and developed proprietary QA documents and processes. • Mentored a summer intern in user research, design ideation, and negotiation facilitation with engineering. • Transformed an engineering-led organization’s mindset by advocating for the integration of UX Design into the default product development process, resulting in an increase in project efficiency and the delivery of substantially better user experiences. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Systems San José State University ### High School Diploma Dougherty Valley High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rahulawasty - Portfolio: https://uxfol.io/7663a3c9 --- Source: https://flows.cv/rahulawasty JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rahulawasty/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13