Swetha Kannan
Product Designer at Convention Artist
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSwetha Kannan is a product designer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of creative and technical experience, currently shaping web app experiences at FranklinCovey. A Carnegie Mellon MHI grad and 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist, she brings a rare blend of data visualization expertise from the Los Angeles Times and animation/3D production skills honed at studios like Nickelodeon. Her background spans journalism-grade graphics, interactive prototypes in Unity/Maya, and entrepreneurial retail experience running a convention art business. She focuses on user-centered design that bridges storytelling and technical feasibility, often leveraging cross-disciplinary workflows between design, engineering, and data. Colleagues value her ability to translate complex datasets into compelling visual narratives while maintaining pragmatic product outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Arts and Computer Science, Arts and Computer Science at Middlesex County CollegeBachelor's Degree, Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor's Degree, Fine and Studio Arts at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Tamil, Japanese, Latin
Github Skills (14)
data-journalism10
csv10
binder10
jupyter9
altair9
3d-reconstruction9
volume-rendering9
pandas8
python8
journalism7
ats3
medicine3
react2
typescript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
swethakan/swethakan.github.io
Feb 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:58 pushes, 2 branches, 2 issues in 6 years 11 months
swethakan/ExperimentalCapture
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
curriculumsemestervideovideographycomputational
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