Taral Kulkarni
Sr. Product Designer at Kroger Technology & Digital
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaral Kulkarni is a senior product designer with 13 years of experience crafting end-to-end digital experiences, currently shaping consumer products at Kroger Technology & Digital from his base in Carlsbad, CA. He blends hands-on interaction design with strategic storytelling, informed by advanced design training from NID and teaching stints at Symbiosis Institute of Design and IDC IIT Mumbai. His career spans enterprise and retail-focused roles at NTT DATA and Dell, plus deep UX practice roots in consulting and engineering environments dating back to the early 2000s. Taral publishes on paper prototyping at paperprotos.com and maintains a lettering and illustration portfolio on Instagram, signaling a strong craft sensibility beyond typical product workflows. Comfortable moving between high-level strategy and pixel-level execution, he brings a pragmatic, research-led approach to complex systems and large-scale digital transformations. An often-overlooked strength is his technical background in computer science, which helps him bridge designers, engineers, and stakeholders effectively.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Design (Specialization in Software and User Interface Design), Masters in Design (Specialization in Software and User Interface Design) at National Institute of DesignBachelor of Engineering (Computer Science), Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, PunePost Graduate Diploma in Advertising & Public Relations, Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising & Public Relations at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, PunePost Graduate Level Course in Credit Mode, Post Graduate Level Course in Credit Mode at Industrial Design Center, IIT Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (59)
google-sheets-api10
google-sheets10
gspread9
google-sheets-api-v49
jsforce9
salesforce-api9
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salesforce9
query-language9
pypi9
obsidian8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rkm3/flask-lambda-demo
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Bare bones Flask + AWS Lambda app
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
pythonflaskserverlessaws-lambdabare
leandroloi/heroku-airflow
Aug 2019 - Oct 2023
Start building data workflows on Heroku
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
herokuworkflowsdata-engineeringairflow
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