Meghana Khandekar
Principal Designer & Researcher at Nava
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeghana Khandekar is a design and research leader with 12 years of experience building human-centered products that modernize public services and increase access for millions. She has led cross-disciplinary teams at Nava, Mozilla, Grammarly, and 18F to deliver large-scale systems—from login.gov used by 85M+ people to VA case management that reduced appeals wait times from five years to one. Her work blends service design, product strategy, and operational scaling: she’s grown design organizations, shortened hiring cycles, and created frameworks that enabled teams to reliably ship impact. Meghana specializes in trusted, accessible experiences across web, desktop, and mobile, and has partnered with federal agencies and nonprofits to translate complex policy and technical constraints into usable systems. Beyond product wins, she’s driven research-driven pivots that led to new contracts and policy scrutiny of corporate tracking, showing her work can shift both user outcomes and industry practices. Based in the Bay Area, she pairs rigorous design practice with a commitment to equity, community, and durable public benefit.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Residency, Residency at New York Studio Residency ProgramResidency, Residency at School For Poetic ComputationDesign leadership | Team leadership | Diversity equity & inclusion, Design leadership | Team leadership | Diversity equity & inclusion at Ongoing self-development & studyBFA Graphic Design Painting, BFA Graphic Design Painting at Maryland Institute College of ArtMFA Interaction Design, MFA Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts
English, Hindi
Github Skills (30)
identity10
authentication10
active10
identity-provider10
idp10
identity-management9
rails9
claims9
aem9
sso-authentication9
web-application8
css7
agile-development7
javascript6
php4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mkhandekar/SurveillanceStories
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push in 22 days
mkhandekar/sandbox
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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