Senior User Experience Designer specialised in building B2B SaaS products and delivering design systems from the ground up. Over 15 years of experience in various roles as a UX/product designer, back-end, front-end and UX engineer. - Product Design Leadership: Strong record of project ownership, acting as the central design lead for F5’s NGINX One SaaS product - a cloud-based B2B console for NGINX instance (server) management - from its initial conception through to launch and beyond. - Data-Driven Design: Leveraged data analysis to improve mobile application designs, which directly contributed to enhanced App Store downloads and ratings. - Designing for AI: Experience designing for AI Assistants and using AI tools within the design process. - Strategic Stakeholder Communication: Established a design-led culture by collaborating with business and technical stakeholders at all levels and delivering designs for end-to-end customer journeys as a single source of truth for planning and execution. - UX Advocacy & Mentorship: A dedicated advocate for user-centred design, having founded local UX communities and received an employee award for organising UX workshops. Earned award nominations for customer service and mentoring peers and juniors. Business Value Delivered: - Designed the entire flagship product - NGINX One SaaS Console - for F5-NGINX that directly contributed in securing customer contracts up to US $12.5 million. - Built and maintained scalable design systems and pixel-perfect component libraries for Fungible Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), cutting design-to-development cycles by ~30% and ensuring brand consistency.

Akshay Deshpande

Senior User Experience Designer specialised in building B2B SaaS products and delivering design systems from the ground up. Over 15 years of experience in various roles as a UX/product designer, back-end, front-end and UX engineer. - Product Design Leadership: Strong record of project ownership, acting as the central design lead for F5’s NGINX One SaaS product - a cloud-based B2B console for NGINX instance (server) management - from its initial conception through to launch and beyond. - Data-Driven Design: Leveraged data analysis to improve mobile application designs, which directly contributed to enhanced App Store downloads and ratings. - Designing for AI: Experience designing for AI Assistants and using AI tools within the design process. - Strategic Stakeholder Communication: Established a design-led culture by collaborating with business and technical stakeholders at all levels and delivering designs for end-to-end customer journeys as a single source of truth for planning and execution. - UX Advocacy & Mentorship: A dedicated advocate for user-centred design, having founded local UX communities and received an employee award for organising UX workshops. Earned award nominations for customer service and mentoring peers and juniors. Business Value Delivered: - Designed the entire flagship product - NGINX One SaaS Console - for F5-NGINX that directly contributed in securing customer contracts up to US $12.5 million. - Built and maintained scalable design systems and pixel-perfect component libraries for Fungible Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), cutting design-to-development cycles by ~30% and ensuring brand consistency.

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Senior User Experience Designer specialised in building B2B SaaS products and delivering design systems from the ground up. Over 15 years of experience in various roles as a UX/product designer, back-end, front-end and UX engineer.

  • Product Design Leadership: Strong record of project ownership, acting as the central design lead for F5’s NGINX One SaaS product - a cloud-based B2B console for NGINX instance (server) management - from its initial conception through to launch and beyond.

  • Data-Driven Design: Leveraged data analysis to improve mobile application designs, which directly contributed to enhanced App Store downloads and ratings.

  • Designing for AI: Experience designing for AI Assistants and using AI tools within the design process.

  • Strategic Stakeholder Communication: Established a design-led culture by collaborating with business and technical stakeholders at all levels and delivering designs for end-to-end customer journeys as a single source of truth for planning and execution.

  • UX Advocacy & Mentorship: A dedicated advocate for user-centred design, having founded local UX communities and received an employee award for organising UX workshops. Earned award nominations for customer service and mentoring peers and juniors.

Business Value Delivered:

  • Designed the entire flagship product - NGINX One SaaS Console - for F5-NGINX that directly contributed in securing customer contracts up to US $12.5 million.
  • Built and maintained scalable design systems and pixel-perfect component libraries for Fungible Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), cutting design-to-development cycles by ~30% and ensuring brand consistency.
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Work Experience

Senior User Experience Designer at F5, Inc. - NGINX (Cloud computing and Networking)
January 1, 2023 - October 1, 2025
Led and delivered end-to-end design for F5’s NGINX One SaaS platform, a cloud-based B2B product that helps customers manage their NGINX instances. Delivered dashboards, AI assistants, infrastructure monitoring and configuration management tools; produced high-fidelity mockups; established a design-led culture and aligned stakeholders; synthesized customer feedback to improve engagement and confidence.
Product Designer at Fungible, Inc.
October 1, 2020 - August 1, 2022
Built design system in Figma; improved web components with Angular, HTML, CSS, and SASS; created UI component references and style guides; designed multi-path workflows for composable-infrastructure management enabling customizable server configurations.
Product Designer and UX Engineer at Compose.Cloud (Formerly Cloudistics, Inc.)
July 1, 2018 - October 1, 2020
Designed and prototyped interfaces to simplify functionality in a complex infrastructure-management product; established the company’s design system and prototyping components; implemented front-end solutions to improve UX/UI.
UX Intern at DrFirst, Inc.
May 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017
Designed features for a secure messaging application Backline, including user research, personas, workflows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes and user testing.
Software Engineer and UX Leader at Tietoevry
August 1, 2014 - July 1, 2016
Founded and coordinated a local UX community; instituted a user-centered design approach; ensured modern, easy-to-use UI/UX across projects; worked on front-end tech including CSS3, JavaScript, Less and Bootstrap.

Education

Masters in Human-Computer Interaction at University of Maryland - College Park
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2018
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) at University of Pune
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2010

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services

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