# Vaishnavi Anand

> Product @ MeetYourClass

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vaishnavianand

Vaishnavi is the Head of Product at MeetYourClass. MeetYourClass is a platform for prospective college students to meet each other, research universities, and join groups on their favorite social media apps. MeetYourClass works directly with university enrollment, admissions, and marketing & communications leaders to enhance the student experience and advance institutional enrollment goals. 
For partner institutions, MeetYourClass aggregates insights from its platform and social media to infer where students are in their decision process, which factors are most strongly influencing their enrollment decisions, and how each institution is performing against competitors. MeetYourClass currently works with 23 universities and has had >600,000 students sign up for the platform.

We are responsive over LinkedIn DMs and email (team@meetyourclassinc.com) for hiring and partnership inquiries.

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ MeetYourClass
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Member @ The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Jan 2024 – Present | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious all-discipline honor society. For the graduate student level, invitations are extended only to the top 10% of graduate students.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Purdue University - The Graduate School
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Graduate Teaching Assistant for UX Design Experience Studio, UXD Strategies, UX Fundamentals and UXD Capstone
• Managed and mentored 4 team projects sponsored by industry-leading companies (Deckers HOKA, Great Clips, Purdue International Students & Services and Innovatemap, resulting in successful execution of design methods, design thinking, problem-solving approach, strategies, documentation and end-of-semester presentations.
• Facilitated and assessed group projects and presentations based on design principles, sprint methodologies, and project planning to enhance students' understanding of practical applications in UX design

### Research and Design | RETHi - NASA @ Purdue University - The Graduate School
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
RETHi | NASA - https://www.purdue.edu/rethi/
DVC Lab - https://www.dvclab.net/people

Collaborating with Ph.D. Researchers to conceptualize and create high-fidelity prototypes of on-screen widget models, contributing to the development of Mission Control Visualisation Technologies as a part of the DVC Lab on the RETHi NASA project

### Product Design Intern @ MeetYourClass
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Collaborated with a team of designers, business leads, and developers to create a comprehensive design system with reusable components, reducing design production time by 40% and followed the Agile development process.
• Conducted heuristic evaluation of current website and identified several usability issues, resulting in a 50% increase in user satisfaction.
• Leading user research activities including user tests, interviews, and competitive analysis, resulting in a redesign that increased conversions.

### Web Developer @ Cognizant
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Developed client websites (Hilton and Wyndham) using HTML, CSS, React JS with a team of 6 developers and designers.
- Collaborated the work on Bitbucket and Atlassian. 
- Ensured all websites were responsive, mobile and tablet friendly
- Conducted unit testing for coding functionalities and testing of website design for responsiveness, clarity and effectiveness

### Project Intern @ Larsen & Toubro
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Study of telecommunication systems for offshore platforms

### Project Intern @ Siemens
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Digital study of field pipelines systems and PLC software for logic controllers for pipeline automation in oil fields.

### Project Intern @ Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Study of digital information networking systems like EPINET through programming


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Graphics Technology(UX Design)
Purdue University

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electronics and Communications Engineering
SRM IST Chennai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vaishnavi-anand
- Portfolio: https://www.dvclab.net/people/
- Portfolio: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ExStudio/teams-history/teams-fa23/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31