Shreehari Aravind

ശ്രീഹരി അരവിന്ദ്

[ Shh r ee h aa r ee ] [ UH R - v ih n d ]

WHO AM I ?

I am a self taught Product Designer based in India. People often call me Harry.





I was born and bought up in Kuwait for the first 17 years of my life after which I moved to Kerala, India to study Business & Economics.





These years of my life seeing people from different spectrums of life and the ability to still connect with them proved to paramount in me being a designer in my later years. 





What we now call user-centric behaviours actually was innate to me in the form of high empathy inculcated by my parents who lived almost all their life in another country to give me and my brothers a better life. They always taught me to think from other people’s perspective.

WHY PRODUCT DESIGN?

I fell in love with design in my first job as a Product Associate at a startup where I had the chance to work in Sketch and a new tool called Figma :)





The ability to step into someone else’s shoes and think about how they interact with digital products felt almost natural to me even though I had no formal education. Thus began a journey of practise and experimentation.





After a mostly freelance roles for couple of years which I took up to fund my B2B fresh tea business. Unfortunately I had to shut this down and pick up my first full time role at Almabase.

My first full time role got me into B2B SaaS space and I have had the chance to work on some of the most challenging problems in the alumni management space with Almabase in the last two years

WHO ARE YOU OTHER THAN YOUR JOB?

I am a husband, father to a baby boy and two cats. My life outside of work mostly is occupied by these beautiful characters. I cherish every second I have with them because apparently everything goes by fast :)

For some ME time, I usually play football or hit the gym to improve my football. I like to read fiction in the night and long form articles on Medium and Substack every other time of the day.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Feb 2021 - Present

Product Designer

Almabase

B2B SaaS company in Bangalore, India

Joined Almabase - a SaaS company that has since grown from $1 mil ARR to $2 mil ARR without any external funding and being completely founders and employee owned. The design team has since grown to three members and today I work on important products that can help the company improve the ARR.

Feb 2022 - Apr 2022

Product Designer

Trinkerr - Contract

B2C app in Bangalore, India

At Trinkerr I helped building features for Indian traders to trade better in the stock market by following expert traders.

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

Product Designer

Houndstooth - Contract

Digital design agency in Mumbai, India

I worked with Houndstooth on contract basis and collaborated with multiple international clients include Voyage SMS and Homage

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

Product Designer

Voyage SMS - Contract via Houndstooth

B2B SaaS company in SF, USA

I mainly worked on the design system for the entire product to help cut down the product development time. Shipped the design system and worked on 2 projects using the design system.

Dec 2020 - Jan 2021

Product Designer

Urban Kissan - Contract

Hydroponics company in Bangalore, India

Contract role with the biggest hydroponics company in India backed by Y Combinator. Worked on website and mobile app.

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

Product Designer

Greenvault

Design agency in Calicut, India

I joined Greenvault after pandemic forced me to shut my startup. At Greenvault I have had the chance to work with up and coming funded startups. I completed an end-to-end project with Anoop Plastics, a plastics giant in the Middle East.

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

Co-founder

Tea & Co

B2B Tea Delivery in Mumbai, India

Tea & Co was founded after discovering a pain point for farmers who produced high quality tea but yet made very less money selling them to middle-men. Tea & Co connected farmers with businesses like restaurants, hotels and event companies who needed high quality tea. This ensured farmers with more disposable income than usual. Before COVID Tea & Co delivered to more than 40 businesses on a regular basis and 110 businesses in total.

Sep 2016 - Dec 2018

Product Manager

Billeasy

Paperless billing company in Mumbai, India

Joined Billeasy as the first employee and worked across all the functions including product management where I helped build the first version of the app. Mostly worked in research and GTM roles before moving on to product marketing.

Let's build something together?

"Hey there! I'm all ears for new projects! Let's have a chat about what you've got in mind. Shoot me your ideas!"

Let's build something together?

"Hey there! I'm all ears for new projects! Let's have a chat about what you've got in mind. Shoot me your ideas!"