# Ruchit Shah > Design & Code Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ruchit Growing up, I loved stories. My dad used to share his interesting life stories and impart wisdom while using crayons on my drawing assignments. I believe each moment is an untapped story, with mighty potential waiting to be unleashed. As I visualize my career, I wish to leverage technology, creativity, and the art of storytelling to design those "Aha" moments around human-centric products. Considering people to be at the core of every organization, I have been fortunate to learn from kind mentors working in startups and later at big tech collaborating with cross-functional teams in varied settings. In my free time, I enjoy parks, beaches, photography, learning to cook, and discovering beautiful San Francisco. Now that you know mine, I’d love to know your story! ## Work Experience ### Product Designer II @ Stealth Startup Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, CA • Design lead for a platform with 500K users bringing $12 billion in assets, enabling them to store, invest, and trade assets through new retail experience • Built an approvals app with new design paradigms to approve bulk requests reducing wait times by 80% for institutional clients with features like A-grade security measures, risk scores, duress codes, and policy templates ### Product Designer @ BoomPop Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area • Conducted UX audits of the app and website while assisting in establishing foundational design systems, including fonts, colors, token system, and resources • Unified 3 distinct chat interfaces to bridge the gap and consolidate all communication on BoomPop's platform, ensuring a cohesive product experience across the platform ### Product Designer | Design Fellow @ Wikimedia Foundation Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led concierge experiments, research, and user interviews with 5 subject matter experts to learn about their motivations and bring their niche, rich knowledge available on Wikipedia • Developed a solution combining 3 underutilized Wikipedia tools to boost reader engagement in contributing knowledge through interactive games, while simultaneously training the system to create new knowledge. • Collaborated with PMs, engineers, and designers on XFN teams to unify 2 projects that contribute to niche topics on Wikipedia ### Senior Product Designer @ Polygon Labs Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 • Promoted to lead cross-functional teams to launch Coinbase Wallet in India, solving complex technical issues related to customer acquisition problems through deep research, which resulted in acquiring 1 million verified users • Shipped end-to-end designs for Solution Partner Network for a $5 billion company, launching 4 new features to improve discoverability for infrastructure partners, resulting in a 20% increase in partnerships and reduced launch time • Facilitated 10 critique sessions to evaluate findability, navigability, and usability, ensuring refined design strategies and last-mile product delivery using FigJam and InVision for effective collaboration ### Product Designer @ Polygon Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Designed and scaled a Design System with 5,500 design components to improve turn-around time and deliver cohesive designs, achieved 10K+ downloads on the Figma, and conducted 50+ hours of UX audits • Led 4 partnership projects with companies Nothing, Walmart, Team Liquid, and Flipkart to solve user retention problems • Collaborated with 2 design interns to launch a mobile app shopping experience, with a delightful user interface for Android and iOS devices attracting 488K+ unique users for Flipkart, attracting new partnerships globally ### UI/UX Designer @ Cope.Studio Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India • Designed logo, brand guide, and high-fidelity designs for Nume, securing $2M in funds from Sequoia Capital India • Executed 0-1 journeys with 5 product design companies, FireDrops, Nume, and Intrality, and raised funds to scale and launch • Conceptualized Tellless – AI Pitch Deck App, and app designs for Future of Wallets using user-centered design ### Founding UX Designer @ Kalam Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Shipped 5 product features, and designed brand guides, wireframes, game assets, and component systems for level design • Spearheaded user research, usability testing, and contextual interviews with a team of 4 interns to build new product journeys • Promoted to new responsibilities, including managing and mentoring 3 design interns ### UX Researcher - AR/VR @ Swevens Immersive Studio Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India • Conducted qualitative research, competitive analysis, telephonic interviews with vendors, and 6 user interviews to identify pain points in standing desks. • Synthesized our findings that contributed to the redesign of standing desks, resulting in a ~2% reduction in manufacturing costs and a 15% increase in sales revenue within 2 months of launch ### User Experience Designer @ BlackCab Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai Area, India • Planned and executed campaigns for Jio Saavn, Kolkata Knight Riders in a team. Website design for 2 clients. • Designed artworks and campaigns for various artists on Artist Originals like Prateek Kuhad, and Jaz Dhami, and also the Jio Saavn Podcast campaign for No Filter Neha and RJ Balaji. ### UI Designer @ Apli.ai Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai Area, India • Planned and executed the workflow for the website with integrated layouts. • Designed the complete end-end application layout using the Figma tool. • Redesigned the logo and branding for Apli.ai ## Education ### Masters of Design in Human Computer Interaction California College of the Arts ### Bachelor of Engineering Thadomal Shahani Engineering College ### SF Government CivLab ### High School Education Rustomjee International School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ruchitrshah - Portfolio: https://www.ruchit.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/ruchit JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ruchit/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13