Mahesh Damodhar
Director User Experience Design at OpenText
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMahesh Damodhar is a design and technology leader with nearly two decades of experience shaping user experiences for enterprise and consumer web products, currently directing User Experience Design for OpenText in Bengaluru. He blends hands-on engineering roots—from mainframe COBOL teaching to building single-page apps—with strategic design leadership, driving collaboration between Product, Engineering and UX and scaling design systems with design tokens. Mahesh has led UX and technology teams across Netscape-era firms, AOL, Huffington Post, Trivone and his own studio MADHouse, bringing a pragmatic, product-focused approach to digital transformation for SMEs and large enterprises alike. Known for evangelizing practical design patterns and fostering cross-disciplinary partnerships, he pairs ethical leadership with a relentless curiosity about how users actually believe and behave. An unusual strength is his ability to move between low-level technical implementation and high-level design strategy, making him effective at translating business goals into usable, scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE, School, ICSE, School at St. Germains Boys High SchoolB.Sc, Electronics, B.Sc, Electronics at Christ University, Bangalore
English, French
Github Skills (8)
style-dictionary6
figma5
figma-api5
dictionary5
amazon4
design-tokens3
json3
figma-plugin3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
12pixels/12pixels.github.io
Dec 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
12pixels/wa-messenger
Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
WhatsApp Messenger
Contributions:12 PRs, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.