Shivanku Kumar
Product Designer at WhatsApp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShivanku Kumar is a Product Designer with 11 years of experience crafting polished, trust-building digital products across fintech, payments, mobility, and urban systems, now designing at WhatsApp in San Francisco. He combines high-fidelity prototyping (HTML/CSS/JS, Webflow) with strategic storytelling to surface product opportunities and lead multi-phase overhauls from concept to launch. At SoFi he shaped home-loan experiences that moved business metrics, and at PayPal and Ola he translated complex partner and driver needs into modular, testable designs. Shivanku mentors design teams and collaborates closely with engineers, researchers, and data scientists to raise craftsmanship via robust design systems. Known for creative coding and a playful side (he lists “pranks” in his GitHub bio), he brings curiosity and a practical, prototype-driven approach to solving product problems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Design Design, Bachelor of Design Design at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMaster of Professional Studies (MPS) Interactive Telecommunications, Master of Professional Studies (MPS) Interactive Telecommunications at New York University
Github Skills (22)
javascript7
render7
react6
extendscript6
editor6
visualize5
animation5
lottie5
ios4
react-native4
android4
adobe4
watson-assistant3
after-effects3
alexa-skills-kit3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kshivanku/CAAProtests
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
An app to visualize protests against the CAA in India
Contributions:157 commits, 7 PRs, 126 pushes in 24 days
visualizereact
kshivanku/notesGA
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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