# Raunaq Gupta

> Product designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raunaq

Product designer with decade+ experience shipping enterprise web applications and developer tools across startups and large organizations. I complement product teams with expertise in systems design, an intuition for designing for developers and simplifying complex enterprise workflows.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer @ Cisco
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA
Shipped Database monitoring on Splunk Observability Cloud. Drove user testing during the beta launch with 11 multi-national customers with currently > 60% conversion to multi-year licenses and lead up to 25 customers by end of FY26. This project also led to definition of AI-assisted workflows, and data visualizations adopted by 3+ product teams.

Shipped Secure Application, and its Data Security Module on Cisco Observability platform with the biggest customer being T-Mobile.

Shipped multiple projects on Splunk IT Service Intelligence.

Contributed components & improvements to Splunk’s design system.

Mentored, and led interns to deliver small- to medium-sized projects.

### Product Designer @ PlanetScale
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | United States
Led design and frontend development to ship a 0→1 product and aid in a Series B of $22M.

Simplified configuration & deployment of multi-cloud, multi-region, and shardable databases within minutes.

Design, development and maintenance of the web application, marketing, and documentation websites.

### Design Engineer @ Arkin
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Pune
Designed and developed a 0→1 product to acquisition (VMWare) while supporting an engineering team of 40 engineers in a 2-person design team.

Simplified software-defined datacenter monitoring with emphasis on highly-scalable visualizations to accommodate thousands of monitored devices.

Other notable design pieces include a natural language search interface, and a novel icon design kit.

Note: Co-creator on patent US9923782B1 for a topology visualization.

### Design Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked on front-end design and development for one of IBM’s Big Data products: Watson Data Explorer. Collaborated on redesigning the user experience of the Application Builder Admin tool using Lean/XP best practices. I was responsible for rapid prototyping and conducting usability testing with various stakeholders.

Front-end development in Javascript/JQuery/CSS3/Rails.

### Software Engineer @ Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Gurugram
Wrote C++ functions inside a proprietary visual editor to enable Alcatel Lucent’s telephony software deployments.

### Software Engineer @ Clarivate
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Noida
Wrote database migration scripts to onboard new clients on their patent portfolio management system.


## Education
### Master of Human Computer Interaction in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### B.Tech. in Computer Science
Amity University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raunaqgupta
- Portfolio: http://raunaqgupta.com/portfolio

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Last updated: 2026-03-25