Product designer with 10+ years of building consumer software from 0 to 1. Mobile-first. Good product taste, writes well. Thinks in systems, studies design patterns and creates new ones, brings artifact thinking to ambiguous problems and works with precision and restraint. Uses AI to work at a pace that used to require a team.
Publishing apps and leading product design for seed to Series A startups. End-to-end ownership from discovery through delivery.
Built and shipped three consumer products: mobile hiring software for small businesses, link-in-bio tool for creators, and social recommendation app for places, TV, and books. Ran customer development with creatives and small business owners, designed and coded MVPs, iterated rapidly based on user feedback. Mentored a full-time product designer.
18-month sabbatical. Courses across engineering, business, and arts.
Raised seed capital. Built and shipped consumer products to web and App Store, innovating in contextual interfaces, social discovery, and conversational commerce before anyone called it AI.
HTML5 and CSS3 experiences for clients. Built a web-based private journal.
"I want to express my sincere appreciation for your work with Soneil. Your design and product insights have been invaluable, and we wouldn't have made the progress we have without you. I hope we get an opportunity to work together in the future. It was a true pleasure."
— Founder & CEO, Soneil Spark (prev. Staff PM at Credit Karma)
"In the several years I've worked with Siddharth on product ideation, I have been constantly inspired by his ability to engage deeply at every point in the product development process - he is spirited and creative while brainstorming; uses deep industry knowledge to conduct user research; brings his programming ability to bear to build out prototypes to validate and refine; and has design and aesthetic ability to present an effective proposal. He's able to speak like a developer to engineering, since he is one, while keeping the goals of the business top of mind. I find him to be a talented partner in finding solutions to entrenched user problems."
— Director of Engineering, Chainlink Labs (prev. Director of Engineering, Terraform at HashiCorp)
"Siddharth is an incredibly talented and well-rounded engineer, product and UX designer. He has a keen eye for design and pays close attention to the smallest details to ensure a great user experience. With his founder experience, he's picked up strong strategy skills after wearing multiple hats in the startup from EPD, business, marketing, recruiting, and managing. He cares deeply about his customer and truly wants to build high-quality, impactful products."
— Serial founder & CTO (prev. Director of Engineering at Social Capital)
"Siddharth impressed me with his willingness to learn, his diligence and his interest and understanding of software development and company culture. He struck me as someone full of potential and look forward to watching where his career takes him."
— Lead, Google Chrome AI (prev. inventor of BlackBerry Messenger)