Hey, I'm Sarthak, a product designer (and hobby developer) based in Toronto. I've spent five years in fintech designing products that involve moving money around or keeping track of where it went. Most of my work lives at that intersection where the user experience has to be dead simple and the underlying system is anything but.

Currently on contract at Paytic. Previously team lead at nanopay, where I shipped three products and built a multi-brand design system from scratch — the kind where you're the only designer for a while and have to figure out process and craft at the same time.

I care a lot about the work that happens before the wireframes. Getting the problem right, figuring out who actually uses the thing, and setting design principles that the whole team can point to when things get contested. The screens are the easy part once all of that is sorted.

I have a front-end background too, which comes in handy when working closely with engineers. I can read code, write it when I need to, and build prototypes when showing something is faster than describing it. It also means I have a pretty good sense of what's cheap to build and what isn't, which tends to make everyone's life a bit easier.