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I'm Chandima Bandara (Chan), a product designer with 5 years of experience and a proven track record of designing end-to-end products in complex SaaS environments. I enjoy collaborating with founders, product and engineering teams to move ideas from concept to MVP quickly, validated by early user feedback, and I thrive on building scalable design systems that keep teams aligned and deliver measurable outcomes.…I'm Chandima Bandara (Chan), a product designer with 5 years of experience and a proven track record of designing end-to-end products in complex SaaS environments. I enjoy collaborating with founders, product and engineering teams to move ideas from concept to MVP quickly, validated by early user feedback, and I thrive on building scalable design systems that keep teams aligned and deliver measurable outcomes.

Chandima Bandara

Product Designer, UI Designer, UX Designer, +2

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I'm Chandima Bandara (Chan), a product designer with 5 years of experience and a proven track record of designing end-to-end products in complex SaaS environments. I enjoy collaborating with founders, product and engineering teams to move ideas from concept to MVP quickly, validated by early user feedback, and I thrive on building scalable design systems that keep teams aligned and deliver measurable outcomes.…I'm Chandima Bandara (Chan), a product designer with 5 years of experience and a proven track record of designing end-to-end products in complex SaaS environments. I enjoy collaborating with founders, product and engineering teams to move ideas from concept to MVP quickly, validated by early user feedback, and I thrive on building scalable design systems that keep teams aligned and deliver measurable outcomes.

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I’m Chandima Bandara (Chan), a product designer with 5 years of experience and a proven track record of designing end-to-end products in complex SaaS environments.

I enjoy collaborating with founders, product and engineering teams to move ideas from concept to MVP quickly, validated by early user feedback, and I thrive on building scalable design systems that keep teams aligned and deliver measurable outcomes.

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Work Experience

Product Designer at Freelance

February 1, 2024 - Present

End-to-end design for AI-powered products targeting pre-seed companies; designed an AI-powered recruitment platform to streamline candidate screening and decision-making, delivering a production-ready MVP. Led end-to-end product design for a parental control mobile app across iOS and Android, crafting high-trust interactions for parents and children and validating a clear product direction through early user feedback.

Product Designer at TheraSee (previously Docswell)

November 1, 2022 - February 1, 2024

Redesigned clinical practice workflows and client portals to streamline complex clinical tasks, resulting in a 28% reduction in task completion time for practitioners. Conducted clinician interviews to validate workflows and surface real-world pain points, identifying key usability issues that shaped the MVP backlog. Built a scalable design system to ensure consistency across patient-facing and internal tools, accelerating the design-to-dev cycle. Collaborated with co-founders and engineering using Linear and continuous design handoff practices to accelerate MVP development, moving from concept to MVP launch in four months. Designed a mobile-responsive, customer-facing portal that reduced support tickets related to mobile access by 20%.

Product Designer at Different

October 1, 2021 - September 1, 2022

Led end-to-end leasing experience design across internal and owner apps, streamlining listing, applications, and approvals, reducing leasing workflow from 13 steps to 7. Designed and iterated on an internal operations app, saving 10–15 minutes per task across teams. Scaled the company design system from 30 to 70 shared components, improving design efficiency and consistency. Designed and launched property compliance features in the owner app to help teams and owners stay aligned with regulations, ensuring accurate tracking and reducing compliance risk.

Senior UI/UX Designer at Beyond Technologies

December 1, 2020 - October 1, 2021

Designed core UI/UX flows for an online meeting platform for medical professionals, achieving 85–90% task success in usability testing. Conducted weekly critique sessions with two junior designers to accelerate their UX skills, resulting in mentees independently leading feature designs within six months. Implemented a design QA process with engineering and product teams, reducing post-launch UI bugs by 40%.

UX Designer at Thinken

October 1, 2018 - December 1, 2020

Led research for a cataract surgery workflow, designing a digital patient management system that improved patient communication touchpoints and increased ancillary service adoption by 20%. Conducted user research for a local gig marketplace app during COVID-19 to address contactless work opportunities, achieving a 78% task completion rate in prototype testing. Developed a standardized design sprint framework used across client projects, reducing discovery phase duration by 25% and ensuring consistent research quality for early-stage startups.