Hi, I'm Shivkumar

I am a Developer turned Product Designer
based in Bangalore.

Hi, I'm Shivkumar

I am a
Product consultant
based in Bangalore.

Few organisations that I've worked with

Product Manager and Webflow developer.
Your jack of all trades - Product, design and engineering.
APM, Backend Developer,
Design explorer.
Volunteer, designer, and builder.

A bit of My work

Expensub

A case study on expense management published on medium.

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Duo Translate

A case study on introducing a new feature to Duolingo published on medium.

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Creators Of Products

A website design and development exercise for a community of all product enthusiasts, using Webflow.

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My work

ExpenSub

A case study on expense management published on medium.
Slide 2 of 3.

Expensub

A case study on expense management published on medium.

View Case Study

Duo Translate

A case study on introducing a new feature to Duolingo published on medium.

View Case Study

Creators
Of Products

A website design and development exercise for a community of all product enthusiasts, using Webflow.

Visit website

Expensub

A case study on expense management published on medium.

View Case Study

Duo Translate

A case study on introducing a new feature to Duolingo published on medium.

View Case Study

Creators Of Products

A website design and development exercise for a community of all product enthusiasts, using Webflow.

Visit website

My story

My driving motto - "Build fast, fail fast, learn faster and breathe."

Here's how I started

A Deer caught in headlights
Although I was always a product enthusiast, with keen interests in founding principles of products, I did not know my fit in the product ecosystem.

After graduation, I took an A-train to the industry by learning coding and becoming an engineer.

From APIs to KPIs and more

Journey from Engineering to Product management


After a couple of years of best effort engineering, I got more curious around the "Why's and whats" of a product.

This opened doors for me to explore Product management and I was eventually one - working on a Fintech product.

During this time, I also got google certified with a curiosity of understanding the philosophies of Design and Product thinking.

What I do currently

Dev, design and PM : The necessary trio
I use my DDP(Design-Development-PM) trio and more to build things. Granted that it sounds like fire-fighting at times, but it needs to be done.

I create roadmaps, I sit down with engineers, designers and executives to map out ideas and find the best ones to implement and ship.

In short, I do everything I can to help a product and all its stakeholders operate at their best.

My work

About Me

The Experience So far

I've been a developer for over 4 years now.

I have been part of few amazing teams, building systems from the ground up, scaling APIs & most recently building multi-lingual chatbots.

The Switch

During my development career, I was drawn more to the "Why" aspect of product development.

This led me to start experimenting with product strategy & development.

I finally found my niche in Design, where I could exercise the analytical & the visual aspects of a product.

The Goal

To adapt my developer eyes to design aspects of a product, to bring the best of both worlds.

The things I do

What I do

Product Design

I do Product, visual, motion and graphic design and exactly in that order.

Community work

As an active volunteer of the creators of products community for over a year, I have had the opportunity to build a website for the community, participate & drive events such as mentorship & social media outreach.

Product Builds

I am an active webflow developer.

I build products for individuals & organisations, mainly using no-code platforms nowadays.

Outside work

I am an avid otaku, a fan of the Japanese culture, the German and French languages.

I make time to practice languages that I find interesting, play my guitar, go for a swim or trek whenever possible.

What I do

Design and consulting

I do Product design and I also work as a consultant on products for early staged start-ups.

Product Builds

I am an active webflow developer.

I build products for individuals & organisations, mainly using no-code platforms.

Community work

I am an active volunteer in Creators Of Products, where I have build out the website and also drive initiatives such as mentorship, webflow cohort and Camp CroPro.

Outside work

Learning languages, swimming/hiking and playing instruments are my thing.

Let's get in touch

Always happy to connect over a coffee,
or a virtual one.