About me

Hi, I'm Kapil.

Based in New York City, I’m a product designer with a background in full-stack engineering. My talents lie in imagining and scaling design while working closely with product & engineering. I believe the best design comes from a deep understanding of all it can touch, from engineers to end-users.

If you catch me outside of work, I'm typically taking pictures or on a motorcycle (oftentimes concurrently).

Based in New York City, I’m a product designer with a background in full-stack engineering. My talents lie in imagining and scaling design while working closely with product & engineering. I believe the best design comes from a deep understanding of all it can touch, from engineers to end-users.

If you catch me outside of work, I'm typically taking pictures or on a motorcycle (oftentimes concurrently).

Experience

2023-now

Head of Design

Pietra is the best place to launch and grow an e-commerce brand for any entrepreneur. Pietra offers a complete platform to design your products with AI, source from a 1300+ vetted factory network, fulfill from a best in class 3PL, and sell with e-commerce marketing tools. Pietra currently services a total of 250,000+ entrepreneurs.

Pietra is the best place to launch and grow an e-commerce brand for any entrepreneur. Pietra offers a complete platform to design your products with AI, source from a 1300+ vetted factory network, fulfill from a best in class 3PL, and sell with e-commerce marketing tools. Pietra currently services a total of 250,000+ entrepreneurs.

2020-2023

Therefore's mission was to help job seekers navigate unemployment and find their next role. Over the course of two years, we built various products to tackle this space (listed below). Therefore ultimately became a job networking community and tool for over 1400 Black & Latinx to get hired at tech companies like Lula, Muck Rack, Figma, and more.

Collaborated with Red Antler to develop the brand system. Built our design system, designed our job application tracking mobile app (iOS/Android), our marketplace web applications, our websites, and all comms/marketing material.

2018-2020

Head of Design, Founding Team

Slync is a supply chain orchestration platform. Slync provides a metadata driven platform for global freight forwarders to orchestrate their supply chain networks through robust workflows, integrations, and collaboration.

Responsible for the original design system, branding, websites, marketing material, and apps till the Series A raise of $25m. At the end of my tenure at Slync, we had pilots & contracts with the largest global freight forwarders including Kuehne + Nagel, DHL, and more.

2017-2018

Solution Architect @ IoT Cloud

In my final role at Salesforce, I worked as a Solution Architect to ensure a robust and reliable product deployment of Salesforce’s new product, IoT Cloud, for global customers (over $1m in ARR) such as Caesars Entertainment and Enel Energy.

2014-2017

Engineer @ Sales Cloud, Engineer & Designer @ Salesforce TV

Worked as an engineer on Calendar app to develop the month view and RelateIQ integration to view analytics on ingested communications (emails, phone calls, events, and more). Then, developed the first-of Salesforce app for AppleTV, a gamified app for inside sales teams to meet quotas. In doing so, I contributed to the React-Native open source repo for tvOS.

Worked as an engineer on Calendar app to develop the month view and RelateIQ integration to view analytics on ingested communications (emails, phone calls, events, and more). Then, developed the first-of Salesforce app for AppleTV, a gamified app for inside sales teams to meet quotas. In doing so, I contributed to the React-Native open source repo for tvOS.

Education

2011-2015

University of Texas, Austin

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Business Foundations

Design

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Sketch

Adobe CC Suite

Adobe CC Suite

Webflow

Webflow

Framer Sites

Framer Sites

Skills

Design Strategy

Wireframing

Wireframing

Prototyping

Prototyping

Interaction Design

Interaction Design

Interactive Design

Interactive Design

Comms Design

Comms Design

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Design Sprints

Design Sprints

Product Management

Tools

Jira

Notion

Notion

Coda

Coda

Skills

Roadmapping

Requirement Specs

Requirement Specs

Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning

Backlog Management

Backlog Management

Dev Languages/Skills

Node

React

React

Typescript

Typescript

HTML

HTML

CSS

CSS

JS

JS

Git

Git

Postgres

Postgres

Java

Java

Interests

You made it to this corner, hey! Did I mention I take pictures? Check out some of my adventures here and I sell prints here. I also enjoy playing tennis and riding motorcycles.