SWARNA KADAGADKAI
Design Engineer
Austin,TX
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
UI Engineer
Lloyd's Register
07.2024 - 06.2025
- Building a cloud-based fleet management software that caters to the maritime industry across the globe.
- Building the client-facing application using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Redux.
- Designing the architecture for features.
- Collaborating with the design team to craft the user experience and user interface.
- Refactoring legacy code to improve the performance of the application and the readability of the codebase.
Designer in Residence
10kDesigners
07.2024 - 10.2024
- Designed a landing page for India's first jaggery rum, Huli.
- Designed a mobile app for Mito Health, a YC-backed startup based in Singapore.
- Designed a BI dashboard for JioPay, India's largest digital payments provider.
- Developed extensive knowledge in product design from user research to prototyping.
Co-Founder
RevOwl
04.2023 - 07.2024
- Built an interactive demo platform for marketing and sales teams.
- Designed the product and the software architecture to build the MVP, and scale the product to 500 users in 3 months.
- Secured a monthly recurring revenue of $5,000.
- Catered to SaaS companies in finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.
- Increased SaaS purchase intent for customers by 20%.
- Reduced content creation time by 60%.
SDE-2, Founding Member
SaaSPay
06.2022 - 06.2023
- Set up initial engineering processes essential for 0-1, and scaled the product from 0 to 50 big-ticket transactions.
- Designed and implemented the database schema using PostgreSQL, and the backend infrastructure using Django Rest Framework.
- Implemented cloud infrastructure for the production environment using Amazon ECS Fargate, and reduced infrastructure costs by 80%.
- Designed and implemented UI components for the dashboards using Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
SDE-2 - SDE-1
SawoLabs Technologies and Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Extended the web SDK to enable integrations for iOS, Android and Desktop frameworks (Swift, Kotlin and Electron) that increased product adoption
- Built SDK integrations for hybrid applications like ionic and flutter that increased product adoption
- Implemented an in-house API throttling system that brought down OTP costs by 60%
Education
Master of Science - Human Computer Interaction
University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX 08.2025 - Current
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science and Engineering
JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
01.2021
12th Grade -
The Oxford Senior Secondary School
01.2017
Skills
- Python
- Javascript
- Django Rest Framework
- Docker
- AWS
- React
- Next JS
- Typescript
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- User interface design
- User research
- UX architecture
Publications
- Clinical Decision Support Systems, Kagada '18, UVCE, Bengaluru, Honourable mention
- Consumer Purchase Patterns using File Structures, NCAIT '20, 8, 15, 2278-0181
- Artificial Intelligence in the field of Healthcare and Teaching, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Business and Technology, Jain University, 08/01/18, Shanlax International Journals, 6, special issue, 2321-788X
- Summarization tool for multimedia data, Swarna Kadagadkai, Malini Patil, Ashwini Nagathan, Abhinand Harish, Anoop MV, Global Transitions Proceedings, 3, 1, 2022, 2-7, 2666-285X
Timeline
Master of Science - Human Computer Interaction
University of Texas At Austin
08.2025 - Current
Designer in Residence
10kDesigners
07.2024 - 10.2024
UI Engineer
Lloyd's Register
07.2024 - 06.2025
Co-Founder
RevOwl
04.2023 - 07.2024
SDE-2, Founding Member
SaaSPay
06.2022 - 06.2023
SDE-2 - SDE-1
SawoLabs Technologies and Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science and Engineering
JSS ACADEMY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
12th Grade -
The Oxford Senior Secondary School