Akshay Sarfare
Design for AI | VMware - Omnissa | IIITB
- Role
- Product Designer 3 at Vmware
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Akshay Sarfare
An experienced product designer with over 5 years of expertise in enterprise B2B solutions and human-centered design. Currently serving as Product Designer 3 at Omnissa, a VMware spinoff, contributing to core services and power management features for Horizon, a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader platform generating over $500 million in annual revenue.Core ExpertiseEnterprise Product Design: Specializes in complex B2B environments, designing solutions that directly impact product stability, efficiency, and market expansion. Proven track record of working within multi-cloud architectures and making enterprise products compatible across Azure and AWS platforms.AI-Powered Solutions: Conceptualized and drove development of an AI-powered Cost Insight dashboard for Azure, designed to significantly reduce cloud costs and carbon footprint for Fortune 500 customers.User Research & Strategy: Led comprehensive user research initiatives, conducting qualitative interviews with global customers across diverse industries. Skilled at translating customer insights into actionable product roadmaps through cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
Experience
Product Designer 3
Jun 2024 — Present
Designed auto-scaling features for Horizon ($600M+ revenue), a DaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, directly enhancing product stability and resource efficiency.2. Led end-to-end UX and research for AI-powered Cost Insight dashboard; achieved an 82% CSAT in usability testing with 10 customers and is projected significant cost/carbon savings for Fortune 500 customers.3. Architected multi-cloud compatibility across Azure, AVD, and AWS Workspaces, successfully expanding the VDI product’s market reach and interoperability.4. Spearheaded user research with 8 global enterprise customers, translating qualitative insights into actionable roadmaps in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders.5. Scaled the centralized design system by developing data visualization and filtering components; mentored 2 junior designers and led cross-functional reviews
Education
MCT's Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering
2014 — 2018
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
MSc in Human Centred Digital Design
2019 — 2021
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Winter School, Quantitive research in HCI
2020 — 2020
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