About

Harish Sivaramakrishnan is a seasoned engineer, artist, and designer with over 21 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He is currently the Head of Design at CRED, where he is responsible for all things design, working towards building the most beautifully designed credit card management and payment app. Before joining CRED, Harish was the Head of Mobile Transformation for the India region at Google, where he helped companies ranging from the largest consumer internet firms to boutique start-ups to realize the true potential of mobile web. He was also the Staff Designer heading design for an early stage idea at Google India and the Head of Design, Enterprise Identity - Google Apps, where he led multiple projects in Enterprise Identity, Enterprise Security, and Enterprise Device Management. Harish has also held leadership positions in design at Snapdeal and FreeCharge, where he focused on building the next generation of consumer experience in a design-first way. He led the much lauded design re-boot for the Snapdeal apps across platforms and re-imagined the buyer, seller, and customer experience components for the Snapdeal. Harish also bootstrapped a team of incredible designers and front-end engineers and created arguably the best designed recharge and payments product in the country. He was also part of the core team that led to the acquisition of FreeCharge by Snapdeal. Prior to his work at Snapdeal and FreeCharge, Harish worked as the User Experience / User Interface architect at Myntra.com, where he was responsible for the entire client-side user interface architecture across web and mobile offerings. He also held multiple positions in engineering functions at Adobe Systems, where he was a Developer Evangelist. Harish's core strength areas include his ability to understand and balance business needs with customer delight, his ability to hire, nurture, and mentor great design talent, and his expertise in developing large-scale applications with web and open standards. He is a designer, mobile and web expert, senior software engineer, and frontend specialist. Harish holds a BE (Hons.) degree in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.