# Reshma M. > Design for Evo Designer, Virtual Cell Challenge at Arc Institute • Prev Sutter Hill Ventures, Snowflake, Coursera Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/reshmam I am a designer, engineer, researcher, and problem solver specializing in user interface and system design. Working with organizations big and small, I lead engagements in transforming complex, data-heavy problems to delightful and beautiful products. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, I started out as a hardware engineer at IBM and Sun Microsystems before setting out to explore my creative side and nurture my artistic talent. I’ve worked in-house at early and mid-stage startups and with dozens of clients in diverse industries. ## Work Experience ### Principal Design Engineer @ Arc Institute Jan 2026 – Present ### Design and Front-end Engineering @ Arc Institute Jan 2024 – Present ### Design @ Various Startups Jan 2024 – Present Operating as a Leader and hands-on designer Apr - Mar: FutureHouse Dec - Present: Arc Institute Apr - Jun: Scale Medicine Sep - Jan 2025: Fiddler AI ### Product Design and Front-end Engineering @ FutureHouse Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 ### Design Partner @ Sutter Hill Ventures Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States Supported product design & definition initiatives for founders and EIRs, hired & mentored portfolio company designers, led brand naming efforts, and built an intelligence platform for SHV. As DIR, crafted experiences across the portfolio, including: • integrations and account management for a DevOps ITSM product • faceted search and labeling for a computer vision platform • company naming for biotech startups • information architecture to support object, asset & preset management for a CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) product. ### Designer in Residence @ Sutter Hill Ventures Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Principal Product Designer @ Coursera Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States Transitioned to Principal after hiring a team lead replacement. Redesigned Coursera's global navigation, unifying MOOC discovery, learner, educator, and enterprise experiences. Led the integration and redesign of Rhyme's short-form course authoring tool post-acquisition. ### Senior Design Manager, Educator Experience @ Coursera Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States Led the team responsible for developing Educator experiences in the Coursera Content Platform, which serves as the backbone for complex authoring and content management workflows for Educators and Industry Partners. These workflows are critical for creating world-class content across Consumer, Enterprise & Degrees businesses. Cultivated system design practices and promoted a holistic approach to product design by developing information architecture, product ecosystem documents, and service diagrams. During a period of hyper-growth, I broadened our team skillset by hiring three designers, streamlined project management with a focus on timely feature releases, and guided the design of hardcore technical features such as video management, auto-grading, programming labs & assignments, course versioning, and more. ### Director of Design @ Snowflake Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Mateo As a hands-on Head of Design, I was responsible for the Web UI experience that caters to Cloud Architects, Database Administrators, Engineers, Data Science, Product and Analyst teams. We re-designed the SQL Worksheet interface and saw its use grow to ~30,000 MAU. Customers were thrilled with the upgrade and it set the path for us to invest more in developing our visualization and data analysis capabilities. Our team's proudest moment came when CEO Frank Slootman highlighted our work during his keynote, announcing the Snowflake Data Exchange. Our efforts were prominently featured by VP of Product, Christian Kleinerman, in various demos at the inaugural Snowflake User Conference in June 2019. ### Director, UI Design and Product Management @ Snowflake Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Senior Product Designer @ Snowflake Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Mateo ### Lead Product Designer @ CloudPhysics Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California Tasked with overhauling product experience from conceptualizing & architecting a data-dense, insightful dashboard to introducing a new mode of Virtual Machine exploration and performance visualizations that radically transform the experience for our customers. ### Senior Product Designer @ BlueJeans Network Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View ### Senior Designer and Front-end Engineer @ GoInvo Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 Architected, designed and prototyped user interfaces for complex web and mobile applications. Clients included: Rue La La, Survey Sampling International, Dataxu, Rapidminer, Applause (formerly uTest), Empirix. ### Co-founder and Chief Designer @ Sweat For A Cause Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Boston, MA Branding & Identity Website Design and Front-end Development Website Architecture and Workflow ### Founder @ A Burst of Color Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 A Burst of Color was a professional graphic and web design firm specializing in designing and developing websites for small and medium businesses, educational institutions and publishing. Clients included Tufts University, Wentworth University, Elsevier, Focal Press. ### Staff Hardware Engineer @ IBM Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 | Austin, Texas, United States As a senior circuit design engineer, designed and verified complex custom circuits for the next generation zSeries Mainframe processor. As part of a select team, Reshma worked on a 45nm process test chip designing a circuit for the deep trench decoupling capacitor. ### Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Engineer @ Sun Microsystems Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | Burlington, Massachusetts, United States Started my career as a circuit design engineer working on the characterization of SRAM arrays for Ultrasparc 5, the first out-of-order 64-bit processor on 90nm technology by Sun Microsystems Inc. Was fortunate to work with an accomplished team of engineers that shaped my work ethic and helped build core technical, analytical, and collaboration skills. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering Purdue University ### Certificate in Graphic and Web Design Boston University College of Communication ### German Language Course Goethe Institut ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/reshma-mehta - Website: http://www.reshmamehta.com - Website: http://www.aburstofcolor.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/reshmam JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/reshmam/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05