Omkar Sarode

About

Available for work

Your T-Shaped Product Designer

Your T-Shaped Product Designer

Your T-Shaped Product Designer

Nine years of making interfaces for product teams, the last six of them writing the front end as well.

Hats I wear...

DJ | Music Producer | Lyricist

Worked as a professional DJ in two clubs and private gigs and have a youtube channel

DJ | Music Producer | Lyricist

I trained as a graphic designer, learned to code so my prototypes would stop lying, and never went back to handing things over.

I'm a T-shaped Product Designer with 8 years across enterprise SaaS, education, service design, and AI-powered products — currently designing for pharma workflows at Altimetrik in Bangalore. I work end-to-end: research, information architecture, interaction design, and the design systems that let a product scale without losing itself.

My MSc in User Experience Engineering from University of London leaned into mixed reality and cognitive neuroscience — which is probably why spatial and voice interfaces still pull at me. Off the clock, I DJ, choreograph, rollerblade and climb; all three are just interaction design with higher stakes.

Based in

Rotterdam, NL

Works in

English, Dutch, Tagalog

Usual hours

09:00 to 17:30 CET

My Process

Prototype in the real medium

A coded prototype answers in a day what a static mock-up argues about for a week.

Fewer handoffs, fewer surprises

When the person who drew it also builds it, the details survive the trip to production.

Ship, then listen

I would rather release something small on Friday and learn from it on Monday.

Education

Education

Master's in User Experience Engineering

University of London, Goldsmiths | London, UK

2021-22

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering

Savitribai Phule Pune University | Pune, India

2012-16

Recognition

Pat on the back

Altimetrik

2025

Rising Star of the Year

AffinityX

2019

Guest Speaker for Digital Literacy for K-12

Coditas, India

2020

Graduation Day, London | 01/20/23

Graduation Day, London | 01/20/23

Best decision I ever made...

Work Experience

Period

Period

Role

Role

What I did

2024 – Now

Lead UX Engineer

Now

Altimetrik

·

Bangalore, India

I lead the interface end to end: flows, the design system and the React front end. Time from design sign-off to release went from three weeks to four days.

2022 – 2024

CX Designer & Sales Consultant

Hackett London

·

London, UK

First design hire. I built the invoicing flow and the component library the product still runs on, then hired and coached two designers.

2019 – 2021

Founder & UX Strategist

The Codeinky Academy

·

Pune, India

Agency work for twelve clients across fintech, health and retail. I introduced coded prototypes into every pitch.

2018 – 2019

UX/UI designer

AffinityX

·

Pune, India

Identity and editorial work for cultural clients. I taught myself JavaScript on the train home.

Toolkit

Toolkit

Leadership & Delivery

Design direction

Stakeholder alignment

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring & coaching

Adaptability

Prioritisation

Agile delivery

Visual design

Product & UX

Product strategy

UX research

Information architecture

Interaction design

User flows

Prototyping

Usability testing

Visual UI design

Design Engineering

Design systems

Component libraries

Design tokens

Responsive design

Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

AODA

Front-end collaboration

Design QA

Developer handoff

Daily tools

Figma

Framer

React

TypeScript

SwiftUI

Tailwind CSS

Storybook

Playwright

Rive

Linear

Certifications

01

Gen AI in SDLC

02

Branding

03

Marketing

04

SEO

05

Copywriting

01

Gen AI in SDLC

02

Branding

03

Marketing

04

SEO

05

Copywriting

01

Gen AI in SDLC

02

Branding

03

Marketing

04

SEO

05

Copywriting

Creative Expressions

Track: Legion

Artist: Omy

Artist: Omy

Artist: Omy

Music & Lyrics: Omy

Music & Lyrics: Omy