I design products people actually use - then I build them.
Senior product designer and full-stack engineer, 8.5+ years. I own the whole line:
Product Designer & Engineer·8.5+ yrs
What a product designer usually ownsWhat I own as well
- 1M+
- users on products I designed
- Betterhalf
- 500K+
- students on the app I shipped
- Superset
- 800+
- colleges & schools running on my platforms
- 400+ colleges incl. IITs & IIMs · 400+ ISSO schools
- 40K+
- user logins on the platform I built
- ISSO
- 6
- products taken solo to production
- Independent work
Six products taken from a problem statement to something live.
Each one is a full write-up - the constraint, the decisions, what shipped, and what I would do differently. Not a screenshot wall.
Also shipped
Gymman
Mobile app · Live
Superset Brand Guidelines
Identity system
LinkedIn Mobile Redesign
Concept
Lister
Product design case study
Emerald Isle
Marketing site · Live
An “Engineer’s Designer”.
Melbin is an exceptionally talented designer who brings the rare and invaluable skill of coding to his design work. His unique ability to understand and implement technical details sets him apart as an “Engineer’s Designer”.
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Melbin is an exceptionally talented designer who brings the rare and invaluable skill of coding to his design work. At Superset, he was instrumental in developing our design language and crafting the design framework for multiple products. His unique ability to understand and implement technical details sets him apart as an “Engineer’s Designer”. His designs are not only simple and utilitarian but also highly effective in meeting complex user needs. Melbin’s dual expertise in design and coding has made a significant impact on our products, making them more intuitive and user-friendly.
Enterprise, scale-up and founding team - most recent first.
Seven of these years are at one company, where I went from building the student app alone to leading the redesign of the whole platform and a team of three.
Product Designer & Full-Stack Developer
Owned a national sports platform end to end - concept, UX, frontend, backend and the AWS deployment it runs on.
- Led the product from concept and UX strategy through development, deployment and production.
- Designed and built a web application supporting 40,000+ user logins.
- Architected and deployed on AWS for a reliable, scalable production environment.
- Used Claude and Codex for AI-assisted design exploration, development and debugging.
- Product design
- Full-stack
- AWS
- AI-assisted
Senior UX Designer
Enterprise UX on accessibility and master-data products, translating dense technical requirements into usable experiences.
- Designed Paralimbic, an accessibility-first mobile app using gesture control and voice interaction.
- Contributed to a Master Data Management platform, turning complex master-data workflows into intuitive dashboards.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to translate business and technical requirements into accessible product experiences.
- Accessibility
- Enterprise UX
- Design systems
Senior UX/UI Designer & Frontend Developer
Designed and built internal platform-engineering tools for Shell’s own developers - the users were the engineers.
- Improved developer experience, service accessibility and operational efficiency across internal tooling.
- Simplified complex technical workflows with scalable UI patterns and a reusable design system.
- Worked with engineering teams on service orchestration, automation and developer onboarding.
- Platform UX
- Developer tools
- Frontend
Consultant - Senior Product & UX Designer
Apr 2025 - Jun 2025Senior Product & UX Designer
Dec 2022 - Jul 2024Product Designer & Software Engineer
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Seven years on India’s campus-hiring platform - from building the student app as a one-person design-and-engineering team, to leading the redesign of web and mobile and running a team of three.
- Led the redesign of the web and mobile platforms - research through implementation.
- Designed and built a placement automation platform serving 500,000+ students across 400+ colleges, including IITs and IIMs.
- Built the mobile app and the resume builder that simplified the student job-application experience.
- Designed an assessment builder for online interviews and bulk mock tests across departments.
- Managed a design team while owning design quality, stakeholder communication and delivery timelines.
- Design systems
- 0→1
- Team lead
- React Native
- Research
Frontend Developer & UI/UX Designer
Designed and built a luxury saree e-commerce store end to end - storefront, payments and inventory.
- Full storefront design and responsive frontend build, with payment and inventory integration.
- E-commerce
- Frontend
Product Designer
One of the early employees. Designed and built the app that has since passed a million users.
- Joined as an intern in the final semester of my MCA and became one of the early employees.
- Designed and developed the web and mobile apps as the product scaled to 1M+ users.
- Contributed across UX, product design and frontend to support rapid adoption.
- 0→1
- Consumer
- Mobile
Design and engineering, held by the same person.
The reason the work above exists end to end is that the handoff never happens - the person who drew it is the person who shipped it.
Product & UX
Framing the problem before drawing the screen.
- User research
- Journey mapping
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Wireframing
- Prototyping
- Usability testing
- Accessibility
- Design systems
Engineering
I ship what I design, so the handoff never gets lost.
- React
- Next.js
- React Native
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Node
- Postgres
- REST APIs
- Angular
Platform & AI
Architecting and deploying the thing, then shipping it faster with AI.
- AWS
- Deployment & CI
- Auth & multi-tenancy
- Email infrastructure
- SEO & structured data
- AI-assisted development
- Claude
- Codex
Craft & leadership
The tools, and three years running a team and owning delivery.
- Figma
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Adobe XD
- Type design
- Illustration
- Design team leadership
- Stakeholder alignment
- Agile delivery
- Mentoring
8.5+ years, five stops, one habit.
Find the grassroots problem, argue about it with the data, then build the thing rather than hand over a file and hope.
2016
Betterhalf
Started on a founding team
Joined as an intern, stayed as one of the early employees. Designed and coded the app.
1M+users reached
2018
Superset
Built the student app alone
Product designer and software engineer on India’s campus-hiring platform.
500K+students
2022
Superset
Led the redesign, ran the team
Senior product & UX designer. Owned the web and mobile redesign and a team of three.
400+colleges
2025
KPMG & Shell
Moved into enterprise
Accessibility and master-data products at KPMG; internal developer platforms at Shell.
2global enterprises
2026
ISSO
Owning a product end to end
Design, frontend, backend and the AWS architecture underneath a national sports platform.
40K+user logins
Education
PG Program in User Experience Design
2023 - 2024University of Texas at Austin·Verify
Master of Computer Applications
2014 - 2017Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru
Master of Business Administration
2015 - 2017St Joseph’s College, Bengaluru
BSc Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics
2010 - 2013