Akash Krishnan
Product Design at Freshworks
Kollam, Kerala, India
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Top SchoolAkash Krishnan is a product designer at Freshworks with a decade of experience focused on security, user management, multi-support portals, and growth within Freshservice. He blends a strong technical foundation from a CS undergraduate background—where he learned UNIX, contributed to open source, and wrote technical blogs—with formal UX training from IIIT Delhi’s winter school. At Freshworks since 2019, Akash drives design solutions that balance usability and security for enterprise support products. Based in Kollam, Kerala, he brings a pragmatic, engineering-minded approach to product design, often surfacing insights that connect backend constraints to better user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
Winter School on User Experience Design, Winter School on User Experience Design at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, DelhiHigh School, High School at Kalka Public School / St. Mary's Public SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus
Malayalam, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (86)
python10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
akashfoss/Git-session-friends
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
DrupalFilm/DrupalFilm.github.io
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Official Drupal Film website
Contributions:14 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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