Resume

page .......... https://deeportfolio.org/resume
pdf ........... https://deeportfolio.org/resume/Deepak_CV.pdf
email ......... deepakkrishnar1618@gmail.com
location ...... Manchester, UK
open to roles . Manchester, London, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham, Oxford (UK)

Experience

Open to work, Meanwhile, upskilling

Aug 2026 to Present · Manchester, UK

Shipping 3 live products solo through Dee Product, across browser, macOS and web, owning design, engineering and go to market with AI assisted workflows.

Founding Designer, Auxtail Ltd

Oct 2025 to Jul 2026 · Coventry, UK

First designer at an EV hardware startup, owning the brand, a 45+ component design system and the plan for a £50k pre-seed raise.

Design & Strategy Associate, Auxtail Ltd

Mar 2025 to Sep 2025 · Coventry, UK

Part-time alongside my Warwick MSc: surveyed 42 EV-owning cyclists, sized a £44m UK market and set pricing. It became my dissertation.

Product Designer, Tekion Corp

Jul 2023 to Aug 2024 · Bengaluru, India

Complex B2B workflows for dealer management software used by GM, Ford Pro, Inchcape and RRG, from partial invoicing to WCAG 2.2 AA.

Product Design Intern, Tekion Corp

Jan 2023 to Jun 2023 · Bengaluru, India

Parts and inventory workflows for dealerships, from research at 5 dealerships to tested AI (OCR) verification screens.

Freelance 3D Artist, ITC Limited

Oct 2023 to Nov 2023 · Bengaluru, India

Photorealistic 3D environments and 2 animations of factory machinery for ITC Foods' CEO, delivered in a 2-week sprint.

Product Design Intern, VConnex Services

May 2022 to Jul 2022 · West Palm Beach, US

Information architecture, scheduling workflows and dashboards for eFieldData, a multi-tenant B2B field-service SaaS platform.

Graphic Designer, Protal

Jul 2021 to Dec 2021 · Kolkata, India

Brand guidelines, a mascot, 15 campaign assets and 3 app concepts, leading a 3-person design team.

Freelance 3D Artist, Alraed Alarabi

Dec 2020 to May 2021 · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Exploded-view animations of patented hardware for European B2B sales pitches, with a client-reported 21% rise in conversions.

Education

MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Warwick (WBS & WMG) (Sep 2024 to Sep 2025, Coventry, UK)
B.Des Design, Industrial and Product Design, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) (Jul 2019 to Aug 2023, Vellore, IN)

Tools

Design: Figma, Framer, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Blender, Spline
AI: Claude Code, Antigravity, n8n, ElevenLabs, Relume
Product: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Notion, Obsidian, GitHub, Vercel, Supabase
Business: Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook

Certifications

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations, Anthropic (Jul 2026)
Claude 101, Anthropic (Jul 2026)
User Research & Research Integrity, Epigeum (May 2025)
Excellence in Badminton, Vellore Institute of Technology (Jun 2023)
Human Resource Development, IIT Kharagpur (Oct 2021)
Artificial Intelligence for Beginners, Vellore Institute of Technology (Jun 2020)
Marketing Management, Vellore Institute of Technology (Jun 2020)

Awards

Top 10%, Global Case Competition, Think-cell (Oct 2025)
BIG ISSUE Case Competition Winner, Warwick Business School (Mar 2025)
Best Employee, Tekion Corp (Mar 2024)
2nd Round Entry, Toycathon (2021)