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Amarneethi R

About

Amarneethi R

AI-Native, Code-Literate, Ships Fast

Product Designer with 13+ years shipping complex B2B SaaS, fintech, and developer-adjacent tools end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments. For the past three years, building AI-native design and prototyping tools from scratch as a self-taught front-end engineer who ships interactive prototypes without engineering help.

Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Vercel are daily tools - used as a design partner, not just somewhere code ends up.

Education

B.Sc. Visual Communication

SRM Arts and Science College, Madras University, Chennai

Teaching

Workshops

Hosted AI workflow workshops for 50+ designers, teaching them to build their own AI-native design workflows using Claude Code - part of the same practice that shipped AI Design Workflow and Learn Tailwind.

Experience

Thirteen years, in full

  1. Solidarisoft InnovationsFounder & AI-Native Builder

    2023 - Present
    • Piloting a proprietary AI prototyping tool that converts wireframes into working prototypes via a custom wireframe framework, delivering 3× faster time-to-working-prototype with 100% predictable outputs vs. open-ended AI generation. In active design partnerships with service companies, startups, individual builders, and founders to validate workflow fit and iterate the product.
    • Built an AI-native design system that is open source, tailored for AI consumption.
    • Built 7 distinct AI-powered design tools end-to-end (concept to code to release) to compress and standardize the AI-native design workflow, covering ideation and design system compliance.
    • Piloted a front-end AI tool that enables automated design-system compliance.
    • Hosted AI workflow workshops for 50+ designers, teaching them to build their own AI-native design workflows using Claude Code.
    • Self-taught front-end development to remove the design-engineering handoff bottleneck; now ship interactive prototypes in React, Next.js and Electron directly to users for testing.

  2. Vested FinanceProduct Design Lead

    Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

    Remote · Consumer fintech

    • Lifted remittance conversion 19% by optimizing button placement on a consumer fintech product serving Indian retail investors trading US equities.
    • Designed and shipped Extended Hours Trading for desktop and mobile end-to-end, with full IA, interaction, and visual design under a tight timeline.

  3. Hi-LabsFreelance Product Designer

    Oct 2022 - Jan 2023

    Healthcare data automation

    • Designed sales-pitch screens and improved usability for an enterprise automation tool serving US healthcare payers; applied foundational interaction principles to a complex, ambiguous workflow domain.

  4. TangoRxManager, Product Design

    Dec 2021 - Oct 2022

    B2B Healthcare SaaS

    • Built and led a high-performing team of 5; defined the hiring rubric and an upskilling program from scratch.
    • Cut design-review time by 50%+ by streamlining a dual-track process for rapid prototyping and comprehensive UX solutioning.
    • Drove problem definition from business and user goals; introduced peer and self review for engineering handoff to reduce rework.
    • Owned product user-analytics and design-system initiatives; partnered cross-functionally with US operations to embed UX-led product development.

  5. ProchantLead UX/UI Designer

    Sep 2020 - Nov 2021

    B2B Healthcare Analytics

    • Redesigned the real-time backlog reporting tool, eliminating ~80 hours/week of manual reporting effort across operations teams.
    • Spearheaded the UX/UI redesign of Prochant Analytics, which was productized and sold as a separate offering to existing clients.
    • Built a new design system for internal tools; collaborated closely with engineering to design within and around platform constraints.
    • Implemented a Mixpanel-driven design model: defined UX success metrics and used usage data to drive iterative product decisions on Prochant Connect.

  6. Fidelity Investments, FCATLead UX/UI Designer

    May 2018 - Aug 2020

    In-house R&D unit

    • Sole designer for FCAT India, Fidelity's R&D unit shipping experimental B2B and B2C fintech products on emerging tech (blockchain, algorithmic trading); established UX best practices.
    • Key member of the team that raised $40M for revamping critical parts of the brokerage platform.
    • Product owner for Go-Algo, an algorithmic-trading sandbox letting retail investors experiment with strategies on historical market data.
    • Shipped: a blockchain liquidity solution for warrant securities; a research-analyst startup-data tagging tool; the FCAT showcase site; and multiple savings-app prototypes (Rainy Day, Beanstalk, Travel).

  7. PayPalSenior UI/UX Designer

    Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
    • Designed checkout integration flows for North American enterprise merchant partnerships; complex, multi-stakeholder, regulated B2B workflows.
    • Designed co-branded online ads.

  8. VenturePactLead Visual & UX Designer

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2017

    Founding designer on Outgrow.co

    • Founding designer on Outgrow.co; designed and launched product, brand, and marketing site end-to-end. The product is live and used widely today.
    • Owned UX and visual design for VenturePact's core platform.

  9. CognizantHead of Animation & UI/UX Designer

    Feb 2010 - Dec 2012, Nov 2013 - Dec 2015
    • Led the Chennai studio's animation org; managed Art Directors, animators, and a script writer; delivered 30+ explainer videos and interactive prototypes for client pitches.
    • Creative technologist on client work: shipped adaptive 3D web (Flash), a Unity3D interactive mall walkthrough for a leading Abu Dhabi bank, and custom ActionScript filterable image galleries.
    • Owned cost, timeline, resource planning, art direction, and technology recommendations end-to-end.