# Shivam Gupta

> User Experience Designer @ Google | Design & Career Mentor for 675+ mentees @ ADPList.org | Sharing companies’ stories through research and design | Previously at VMware, Wipro, Infosys | Human-Computer Interaction M.S.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shivamgupta

I am a User Experience Designer at Google, working on Cloud Database Products. Previously, I worked as a Product Designer at VMware, working on Cloud Services. I have graduated from Indiana University with a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction. With over eight years of working experience in an agile working environment, I am currently working on a database product for scaling our consumers business. I want to create products that empower users and businesses worldwide and build a future with safety and integrity in mind. I’m energized by the idea that I will help solve some of the most challenging issues faced by enterprise service users today.

Design skills:
- Product design (UX/UI)
- Visual brand identity design
- Brainstorming and Ideation
- UX Research, User Interviews, User Testing, Wireframing, Prototyping, etc
- Solid knowledge of web standards & technologies
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript

The UX and research process influence my process of solving complex design problems in a practical, creative manner to discover the best solutions.

A hard-working person and a passionate learner. Good at public speaking. Having good interpersonal skills. Displayed leadership qualities throughout life by holding positions of responsibility across multiple organizations. An adventurous person who loves hiking and tackles challenges head-on. An avid reader, a mentor, a numismatist, and a poet.

## Work Experience
### User Experience Designer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Accelerating Cloud database adoption and increase retention by crafting efficient, trusted and easiest to use console experience for our customers
- Designing the interface for industry leading managed SQL Server, Cloud SQL
- Creating the simplest and easiest to use end-to-end experiences for developers
- Empowering anyone with a vision to build a better tomorrow by crafting grokkable cloud technology

Impact:
- Designed a feature enabling SQL Server customers to reduce cost by up to 85% providing them with more control of when they enable/disable simultaneous multi-threading.
- Improved RPO by 91.67% (1 hour to less than 5 minutes) by designing a feature to minimize downtime in the event of regional outages.
- Proposed and got buy-in to use a more illustrative component that visualizes customers’ database topology, enabling customers to better understand the impact of the failover operation.
- Unblocked $100M+ ARR for GCP by designing a feature to support cross region failover for several high compliance customers. 

Recognitions:
- Recognized with a Spot bonus* for my leadership in revamping the Cloud SQL and AlloyDB UX Design Studio and Office Hours.
- Recognized with a Spot bonus* for proactively initiating UX designs for a critical project and collaborating with the xfn, especially backend, teams to close down on implementation pathways.
- Recognized with a Spot bonus* for providing outstanding mentorship to the first apprentice on the team. 

*Spot bonuses allow managers to immediately recognize extraordinary achievements.

### Mentor @ adplist.org
Jan 2022 – Present | United States
- Mentoring designers globally to support their journey to break into the field and build a career they desire to create meaningful experiences. 
- Providing 1:1 mentorship on topics like Life Coaching, Higher Education, Career Progression, Improving UX Design Skills, Portfolio & Resume Review, Breaking Into Tech, Imposter Syndrome, etc.
- 60,000+ minutes mentored with 675+ mentees across 40 countries

Highlights:
- Served as Ambassador for the New York City ADPList City Chapter Ambassador Program
- ADPList100: Most Influential Mentors of 2024 
- Top 10 UX mentors globally in UX Design category
- Community Evangelist, Class of Summer'23 and Winter'23 for ADPList Mentor Club
- Super Mentor (top 1% mentor in the global community) for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2025
- Super Mentor (top 1% mentor in the global community) for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2024
- Super Mentor (top 1% mentor in the global community) for February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2023
- Top Contributor 2022
- Most Beloved Mentor 2022
- Capital Achievers – Product for the month of January 2023
- Super Mentor (top 1% mentor in the global community) for February, March, April, May, June, July, September, October 2022
- “Special Achievement Award” for going the extra mile by providing my time, efforts and energy to help grow my mentees.

### Product Designer @ VMware
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Designed the new configurator for Cloud Partner Navigator Platform for VMware’s MSP Partners consisting of landing page, configurator, and subscription management system in collaboration with PM and engineering teams
- Created design patterns and components for the design system

### User Experience Research Assistant @ Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Indianapolis, Indiana Area
Worked as a user experience researcher under Dr. Erin Brady, an Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Computing Department in the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI for Workplace Accessibility.

The study aimed at understanding how social technologies can help improve accessibility practices in the workplace to communicate and coordinate between employers and disabled employees effectively. Involved in planning and conducting narrative inquires and built detailed user portraitures to analyze the challenges in a workplace environment.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indianapolis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Indianapolis, Indiana Area
Worked as a Teaching Assistant to Prof. Harry Tunnell for the course 'Introduction to Research in Informatics'. The course presents a broad overview of research philosophy, designs, and methods. Its focus is on social science research methods, and the content is specifically tailored to reflect the rapidly emerging field of informatics.

My work responsibilities included:
- Enhancing the learning experience of students by complementing the activities of the course instructor
- Grade homework, assignments, exams, and projects
- Facilitate sectional discussions among the students
- Mentor students
- Meet with students during office hours
- Assist students with their difficulties
- Help professor develop course plans

### User Experience Designer @ Cincom Systems
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
My work responsibilities included -
- Assisting the UX team in user research and data analysis
- Help create user workflow diagrams to ensure products logically flow from one step to the next
- Reviewing competitors’ products for additional insights
- Sketch ideas and designs in traditional and digital mediums
- Create digital high fidelity designs, and specifications to guide the front-end development team
- Help define the overall look, feel, of the products
- Collaborate in maintaining design assets in the design system

### Senior Project Engineer @ Wipro Limited
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Pune Area, India
My work responsibilities included -
- Implementing support for MySQL DB to mask data in Enterprise Data Obfuscation (EDO) tool.
- Developing new functionalities for the tool as per client requirements using JavaScript and Java.
- Designing GUI of EDO tool using HTML, Spring and testing the component for any issues.

### Senior System Engineer @ Infosys
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Pune, Maharashtra, India
My work responsibilities included -
- Writing custom SQL as per business logic and creating visualization over Tableau.
- Creating sets, parameters, filters and integrating the worksheets to create adhoc
dynamic dashboards and enabling user interactions through action filters for higher
management board meetings with analytical interface.
- Monitored business intelligence practices, designed projects accordingly and ensured
integration of required components by understanding the business KPI.
- Prepared drill downs, parameters, what-if analysis and trend analysis with extensive
use of analytical Tableau functions of forecasting, trend models and table/windows
calculations.
- Extensively worked on various tableau visualizations like donut charts, lollipops,
funnel and dual axis manipulations.
- Created Tableau extracts for customized dataset loads and optimizations.
- Implemented analytics functionality in time domain design reports and dashboards.
- Performed incremental and optimized loads for dashboard optimization.
- Created scorecards, spark lines and trend graphs for governance dashboards.
- Worked on KPI objects and introduced to maps over Tableau with implementation of
action filters.
- Formulae maintenance using index, case, rank and windows functions to achieve
optimized logic over the business case for visualizations.

### System Engineer @ Infosys
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Pune Area, India
My work responsibilities included -
- Troubleshooting the issues faced while monitoring the end-to-end batch run.
- Plan and execute the operation acceptance test cases before every production release.
- Deploying new codes in UAT and Pre-production environment.
- Developing applications using JAVA and using HTML5/CSS3/JSP/JSF for front end.
- Persisting and retrieving data from database using SQL.

### Intern @ Nippon Instruments Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mumbai Area, India
My work responsibilities included -
- Calibration, testing, debugging of Temperature Controllers.
- Learned about PID Controller Logic and Basics of Circuit Designing.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction
Indiana University Indianapolis

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shivamgupta7194
- Portfolio: https://adplist.org/mentors/shivam-gupta

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