Abhilash Kolapareddy

Abhilash Kolapareddy

Sr UX Designer | UI/UX | Design Leader
Tampa, US.

About

Full stack designer with 10+ years of experience leading and designing for startups and enterprises in Fintech, SaaS, Ed-tech, E-Commerce and more. Delivered 0-1 projects impacting millions at Citi bank, WorkLLama, Uber, driving user-focused innovation and business success. Skilled in team building, design strategy, and crafting visionary, user-centric solutions well versed with human centric design

Work

Citi Bank | Virtusa
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Sr UX Designer

Highlights

Championed risk-based design principles for data-driven financial tools, simplifying legal compliance workflows and automating verification steps, leading to a 40% reduction in legal verification time

Led UX design strategy for enterprise-scale applications, ensuring scalable, accessible, and user-centric design systems that enhanced cross-functional collaboration between research, product, and engineering teams.

Optimized design processes by aligning UX research, behavior analytics, and accessibility best practices, reducing design-to-development cycle time by 50% and improving overall product consistency and usability.

WorkLLama
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Sr UX Designer

Highlights

Directed global product design for an Al-powered talent acquisition platform, driving a 40% market share increase through scalable design patterns, localization strategies, and cross-regional alignment across US, UK, APAC

Enhanced user experience of SaaS products, driving 35% increase in customer satisfaction and 20% rise in user engagement through strategic design improvements and marketing alignment

Applied a data-driven design strategy by leveraging UX research insights and behaviour analytics, delivering high-impact B2B2C white-labeled career sites and achieving a 75% reduction in feature time-to-market

Loans Ride
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Lead Product Designer

Highlights

Led product design of loan aggregator platform for B2C (borrowers) and B2B (lenders), optimizing UX to achieve 30% faster loan application process and streamlining operational workflows, resulting 25% reduction in error rates

Aligned design strategies with regulatory standards, integrating KYC, AML, and lending compliance into the Ul to ensure adherence, enhance efficiency

Created Al-driven dashboards and data-rich interfaces, enabling data visualization and predictive analytics for financial institutions, enhancing underwriting accuracy by 25% and reducing loan defaults by 55%

Bulbul Apps
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Sr Product Designer, Cofounder

Highlights

Directed cross-functional teams to design and launch 25+ apps, redesigned core Ul components, streamlined navigation flows, and optimized microcopy using A/B testing, reducing task completion time by 25%, increasing CSAT by 40% and driving $380K in quarterly revenue growth

Facilitated alignment across teams through 18 stakeholder workshops, successfully onboarding over 1,200 preschools and improving operational efficiency in global markets

Uber Disside
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Lead Designer

Highlights

Drove the Uber launch's visual design strategy, collaborated with cross-functional teams to localize the product experience, addressing market-specific challenges and driving rapid adoption in target regions

Designed onboarding workflows with persona-specific audit trails, resulting in a 48% reduction in fraud and a 75% faster profile screening process through streamlined verification process.

Supervek
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Creative Head

Disside Design Studio
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Sr Design Manager

Education

University at Buffalo

Master of Science

Management Information Systems

Osmania University

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

Certificates

Certified UX Design Professional, Certified Scrum Master, Google Analytics GA4

Skills

EXPERTISE

Design leadership, UX strategy, Design vision, Research, Information architecture, HCI, Interaction design, End-to-end design process, User testing, Design system, Service design, Customer experience design, Full design stack, Figma, Adobe creative cloud, XD, Sketch, Jira, Miro, Invision, Balsamic, HotJar, AR/VR.