Summary
Nikhila Nyapathy is a Senior Product Designer with 8 years of experience creating user-centered, data-driven experiences across fintech, SaaS, and hospitality platforms. She blends hands-on research and prototyping with strategic product thinking—driving decisions through usability testing, journey mapping, and workshop facilitation. As HubSpot’s Senior Product Designer (after progressing from Product Designer on Strategic Integrations), she brings enterprise-scale design sensibilities informed by prior roles building UX strategy from scratch at DCU and designing core POS experiences at Toast. Her MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech underpins a rigorous approach to measurable UX improvements and cross-functional collaboration. Notably, she has a track record of evangelizing UX practices inside organizations, training teams on Agile tooling, and unblocking product and sales outcomes through design. Based in Greater Boston, she focuses on joyful, impactful products that balance business needs, compliance, and real user behavior.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech, MS in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI)
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at SRM University
Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology
NA Computer Science, NA Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi