# Shyama Sundar Duriseti > Design & People Leadership at Nutanix Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shyama I am a software product designer and manager with extensive experience in designing product experiences and shaping the careers of designers for the enterprise and consumer domains. A calm, focused, and fun-to-work-with designer and leader adept at leading and navigating teams through challenging requirements and stakeholders. I'm passionate about bringing innovative solutions to the user and customer problems while meeting business objectives through simple, elegant, and effective design solutions. I am equally passionate about helping fellow designers grow and leading the design function to success. Over the years, I have built, mentored, and managed design teams and matured the design function through process and cultural interventions. On the personal front, I am an activist with a deep interest in spreading design education, awareness, and social impact led to my co-founding of UMO Design Foundation, and UX India to drive design deliberations and design-led innovation globally, over the last 15 years. Specialties: Design leadership, product design vision/delivery, managing/growing design teams, design for utilization/user adoption/business growth, UX design, Customer Experience design, design partnerships with customers/stakeholders, design quality, and design maturity. Domains: Enterprise IT Management and Operations, Cloud Management, AI/ML-driven No-Code/Low code automation, SaaS, Ecosystem/Channel Partner Experience, VDI Management/Monitoring, Business Process Modeling, Jobseeker and Recruiter Experience, Enterprise Employee Learning, and more. ## Work Experience ### Technical Director of Design @ Nutanix Jan 2021 – Present | San Jose, California, United States Leading & managing a global team of designers to shape and deliver the Nutanix Cloud Management, NCM experience vision. In this role, I along with my team envision and architect compelling user experiences that span Artificial Intelligent Ops, IT Self Service, Cost & Security Governance for hybrid cloud environments. NCM is our second-largest product portfolio after the core infrastructure. With adoption and utilization of the NCM as key a goal, we directly impact the business bottom line i.e., a larger Nutanix footprint for our customers. Our product experiences are innovative, empathetically crafted, frictionless, engender trust, and are rooted in user insights. Built direct relationships with key customers, and ran co-design sessions with customers in setting a model for the Design Partners program. Co-founded and led Design Brief - a design outreach program to encourage design writing and storytelling. These are a few initiatives I was instrumental with in up-leveling design maturity at Nutanix. ### Staff UX Designer @ Nutanix Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States Conceived, crafted, and delivered innovative and lovable product experiences for Nutanix Prism Pro and Prism Ultimate product lines that provide a sense of control, trust, and delight for the admins in managing complex enterprise IT systems based on ML and AI. Drove user engagement, UX strategy/roadmap, and product experiences that played a crucial role in growing the AIOps product portfolio to $100M+ revenue, making it the second-largest product line at Nutanix. Instrumental in institutionalizing core design processes such as customer visits and partnerships, competitive analysis, UX benchmarking, design quality with FnF process improvements, and instrumenting features for telemetry. ### Sr. UX Designer @ Nutanix Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California, United States Led design for Nutanix Prism Pro, a product line that delivers intelligent operational capabilities for managing large-scale data centers. Delivered product designs for flagship features like Capacity Planning/Forecasting, VM Rightsizing, and Playbooks for IT Ops making hybrid cloud management simple, efficient, and effective. ### Co-Founder @ UXINDIA Jan 2005 – Present | Hyderabad Area, India Conceive, design, and implement activities and events aimed at bringing design-driven social change. UMO.Design, over the years, has expanded the global design community and had grown the influence of design in India through various programs. Our flagship program, UXINDIA has been influencing, inspiring, and connecting the Design Community, Industry, Academia, and Govt at various levels to drive design culture and influence for a far-reaching impact at all levels. ### Product Design Manager @ Citrix Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, California Leading design and managing teams to solve business problems and customer needs through simple and elegant solutions that range from product to end-to-end customer experiences. ### Product Design Lead @ Citrix Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Santa Clara Lead product UX design for the next generation of cloud based services and products. ### Information Architect @ TheLadders.co.uk Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | London, United Kingdom ### User Experience Architect @ Total Jobs Group Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 ### Senior Usability Engineer @ Cordys R&D India Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 ## Education ### M.Des in Visual Communication Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ### Executive Education in Leading through Personal Excellence Stanford University Graduate School of Business ### MA in Interaction Design Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy ### B.Arch in Architecture Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University ### Loyola Academy, Alwal, Secunderbad, India ### IDPL High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sduriseti --- Source: https://flows.cv/shyama JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shyama/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13