# Sarmishta Akkala

> Product Design @ Amplitude

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarmishta

I'm an experienced UX designer who is always curious to solve complex problems in an intuitive way. I believe good design needs to be accessible to all. Currently designing the next generation of cloud based enterprise applications in End User Computing space.

## Work Experience
### Lead Product Designer @ Amplitude
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Product Designer @ VMware
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Leading end-to-end design for various high impact features in VMware’s Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management cloud portfolio that help organizations like Walmart, JPMC, PWC etc. manage desktops, mobile, rugged, wearable and IoT devices for their employees.

Part of a UX team that provides services to over 400 engineers and 50 product managers for a business with over 30,000 enterprise customers.

Mentoring and managing the work of junior designers to help their career growth.

### UX Designer II @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Led end-to-end design efforts for both cloud and hybrid contact center enterprise applications under Cisco’s webex portfolio, delivering usable features to customers while effectively collaborating with cross continent agile product and engineering teams.

### UX Designer (Contract) @ 2U
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Designed an Infographic for Simmons College to illustrate how palliative care impacts costs at end of life

### UX Design Intern @ Charles River Development
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Burlington, MA
Assisted in visual design optimization for data dense displays and in producing conceptual designs.

Designed interactions for desktop and web applications to create a consistent experience across products within the solution.

### Software Design Engineer @ SumTotal Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Hyderabad Area, India
Improved the quality of Sumtotal’s Human Resource Management and Learning Management Systems that helped organizations manage and make their workforce compliant by bringing down the number of customer defects.


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

### Master of Professional Studies in Interaction Design
Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarmishtaakkala

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Last updated: 2026-03-30