Akshay Iyer
Senior Product Designer at Perpetual
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Iyer is a Senior Product Designer with a decade of experience blending product strategy, interaction design, and front-end engineering to ship scalable web platforms. Based in the New York City area, he currently leads design for analytics and community products at Perpetual, building design systems and atomic component libraries that keep multi-product suites consistent. He has a strong technical foundation from an Information Technology BE and an MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU Tandon, which informs his ability to prototype and implement front-end experiences end-to-end. His background includes enterprise work for brands like Colgate and Thomson Reuters as well as consumer startups, giving him fluency in both stakeholder-driven and user-centered design processes. Notably, he pairs design leadership with hands-on engineering—having implemented e-commerce and web publishing front ends and optimized backend reporting early in his career. Colleagues describe him as a learner-leader and decisive collaborator who turns complex analytics and community needs into clear, actionable interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Integrated Digital Media, 3.8/4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Integrated Digital Media, 3.8/4.0 at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringNanodegree, iOS Application Developer, Nanodegree, iOS Application Developer at UdacityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, GPA 3.61, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, GPA 3.61 at University of MumbaiHigh School, Computer Science, Aggregate 93.33%, High School, Computer Science, Aggregate 93.33% at SIES College of Arts,Science and CommerceHigh School, Aggregate 88.61%, High School, Aggregate 88.61% at Swami Vivekanad High School
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (146)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AkshayIyer12/Servo
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:69 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
AkshayIyer12/advent-of-code
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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