Sai Nihas
Senior Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSai Nihas is a Senior Staff Product Designer based in Toronto with a decade-long trajectory of scaling product experiences across mobile, wearable, and web platforms, currently leading design at Shopify. He rose through progressive design roles at Shopify since 2018 after earlier leadership at Ola and consulting at ThoughtWorks, blending hands-on interface craft with product visioning for high-traffic consumer apps. Sai brings cross-disciplinary roots in visual design and engineering (Electrical & Electronics) which inform pragmatic, technically aware design decisions. He has experience owning client relationships and aligning design with business strategy, and has iterated on complex mobile ecosystems—from rider apps to commerce tooling—while mentoring teams through rapid product evolution. An observant designer who started in branding and print, he still leverages that visual rigor to create clear, usable systems at scale.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at M.V.S.R Engineering CollegeMathematic, Physics & Chemistry, Mathematic, Physics & Chemistry at Narayana Junior CollegeC.B.S.E, C.B.S.E at Jubilee Hills Public School
Telugu, Hindi, English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
figma-plugin10
typescript10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
react10
shopify10
online-store5
ecommerce4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
Shopify/polaris
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 months
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
Shopify/shopify-app-bridge
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
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