I didn't begin in design. I studied mechanical engineering, driven by a curiosity for how things work and why some things feel naturally easier to use than others.

That curiosity eventually took me from machines to interfaces, and then beyond interfaces altogether.

I began my career focused on craft: understanding people, shaping interactions, and making complex workflows easier to navigate. But as I worked across industrial systems, education, SaaS, fintech, and AI, I realized that the interface is only the part people can see.

Behind every good product are difficult decisions about technology, business, teams, and trust.

Building Dun from the founder's seat made that lesson personal. I experienced the uncertainty behind every roadmap, the pressure behind every decision, and the responsibility of turning an idea into something people might genuinely choose. It changed the way I design.

Today, I approach products with the eye of a designer, the curiosity of an engineer, and the ownership of a founder. I care deeply about craft, but I care even more about whether the whole thing works.

I'm still curious. Still building. Still trying to make complicated things feel a little more obvious.

Rohitth Padmanabhan

Experience

AI powered mortgage eligibility and decisioning platform for enterprise underwriting teams.

  • Led end to end product design for an AI powered mortgage decisioning platform, simplifying complex underwriting, income analysis and borrower review workflows into intuitive experiences for enterprise lending teams.
  • Mentored designers and collaborated across product, engineering, and delivery teams to maintain consistent UX quality.
  • Partnered with founders, product, engineering, delivery, and mortgage experts to translate complex lending rules into clear production ready experiences.

Internships

SEP 2021 - NOV 2021

Visual Design Intern

NOV 2020 - MAY 2021

UI/UX Design Intern

Certifications

MAR 2021

HFI - CUA Human factors international

AUG 2020 - OCT 2020

Design Mortal Academy - UI/UX Certification

Stack

Design

Figma

Design

Framer

Code

Canva

Marketing Collaterals

Paper

Design + Code

Claude

Research

Lovable

Vibe Design

Emergent

Vibe Design

Cursor

Agent

ChatGPT

Generative AI

Hotjar

Research

Higgsfield.ai

Generative AI

Understand deeply. Design only what matters.