# Somayan Chakrabarti

> Product Designer at Gather

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/somayan

I’m passionate about working on 0→1 technical projects and bringing ideas to life through exciting prototypes.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Gather
Jan 2024 – Present

### Product Designer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Facebook AI Research ➡️ AR Platform (Reality Labs)

### (iOS) Design Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Rider Design ➡️ Money Design

### iOS Software Engineer Internship (Rider Experience) @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built, tested, and polished consumer facing features for the iOS Uber Rider app prior to launch.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Re-designed and built new UI (using React) for an internal website to visualize status of UI tests.

### Research Assistant Internship @ UWaterloo HCI Lab
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Worked with Professor Dan Vogel on extending project Conté (http://www.nonsequitoria.com/v.php?s=research&f=conte), an input device inspired by the way artists manipulate conte crayons.

I helped to conduct research on mode-switching techniques and created application for a prototype to run quantitative and qualitative tests.

### iOS Software Engineer Internship @ Hootsuite Media Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Built platform iOS UI components with accessibility + internationalization considerations

### iOS Application Developer Internship @ SAP
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Waterloo, Ontario
Prototyped minor, consumer-grade iOS apps for clients using Objective-C and Swift

### iOS Developer Internship @ Dactyl Studios
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Victoria, Canada
Developed iSort Words (children’s education game) & Hello SaltSpring (official Salt Spring Island app) using Objective-C, Cocos2D, and Box2D


## Education
### Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science (major) + Cognitive Science (minor)
University of Waterloo

### Meadowridge School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/somayanc
- Portfolio: https://somayan.ca

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/somayan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-31