Srikumar Krishnan Kutty
Design Specialist
10years of work
18years in Design
12years leading teams
6/10Test Automation Frameworks
Overview
Frontend design-system engineer focused on cross-framework component libraries and their testability, evaluated here at a Senior level based on repository scope and engineering patterns. The strongest proven skill is building and maintaining component test infrastructure and multi-framework packaging as shown by vitest configs and many component test files (packages/*/vitest.config.ts and packages/*/src/*/*.test.ts). There is little public evidence of E2E/browser automation, API contract testing, or performance/load testing in the provided human-authored code.
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UX Architect
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Lead
Eucloid Data Solutions Pvt Ltd
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Full-Time
Defined UX strategy for AI-powered enterprise products in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and business teams. Built a scalable design system using reusable components, design tokens, and UX standards. Led hiring and mentoring for the UX team while maintaining consistent design delivery. Ran user research and usability testing to improve usability and business outcomes.
UX Design Consultant
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Middle
Independent
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Freelance
Advised enterprise SaaS clients on improving usability, customer experience, and product adoption. Delivered measurable conversion improvements through usability testing and design changes. Conducted UX audits and customer journey reviews to find product improvement opportunities. Led cross-functional workshops to align Product, Engineering, and business teams around design direction.
Senior Design Manager
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Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
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Full-Time
Led Agent Experience (AX) design for IBM Maximo enterprise asset management and reliability-centered maintenance products. Managed and coached designers to ensure high-quality delivery across multiple product teams. Partnered with stakeholders to simplify complex enterprise workflows and improve usability. Applied IBM Carbon Design System and explored AI-powered workflows to enhance enterprise experiences.
Senior UX Manager
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Lead
Target Corporation
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Full-Time
Led UX design for enterprise retail applications used by global teams. Managed and mentored a UX team to support career growth while maintaining design quality. Worked with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to simplify workflows and improve operational efficiency. Improved user efficiency and reduced support requests through UX changes and stronger design-system adoption.
Senior UX Manager
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Lead
Innominds Software Pvt Ltd
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Full-Time
Managed and mentored a UX team across multiple enterprise projects, including hiring, reviews, and coaching. Coordinated with Product, Engineering, and business teams to translate complex requirements into user-centered solutions. Established UX standards and design reviews to improve consistency and quality across deliverables. Integrated UX into agile development to improve collaboration and delivery.
UX Design Consultant
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Middle
Lightbeam
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Full-Time
Designed a cloud-based data privacy product end-to-end from concept to launch. Reduced manual compliance effort by simplifying complex workflows used in enterprise operations. Built an initial design system and reusable component library to standardize delivery. Created prototypes and customer/investor product demos to support adoption and storytelling.
Senior UX Architect
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Lead
ColorTokens Pvt Ltd
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Full-Time
Led user research and human-centric product design for enterprise cybersecurity solutions used by Fortune 500 clients. Implemented accessibility and interaction design practices to support compliance and improve user confidence in complex security workflows. Focused on usability improvements to increase product adoption through evidence-based research. Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product experiences.
Senior UX Manager
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Lead
Quick Heal Technologies Ltd
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Full-Time
Led UX design for consumer and enterprise cybersecurity products. Conducted user research and usability testing to improve product usability. Established UX standards and design processes across product teams to strengthen consistency. Worked with cross-functional groups to simplify complex security workflows for end users.
University of Madras
Bachelor's Degree ·
Industrial Design
UI/UX Designer
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Middle
AZTEC Software
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Full-Time
Contributed to UX/UI design and user research for SaaS and enterprise platforms. Helped drive improvements to usability through evidence-based design practices. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to simplify complex product workflows. Supported development of consistent UX standards across projects.
UI/UX Designer
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Middle
DBS Bank Singapore
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Full-Time
Performed UX/UI work for mobile banking and related enterprise experiences. Conducted user research and usability-focused design refinements to improve task flows. Coordinated with stakeholders to ensure usability aligned with business and product goals. Supported ongoing UX process improvements for scalable delivery.
UI/UX Designer
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Middle
FireEye India
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Full-Time
Worked on UX/UI design and user research for security-related products. Supported improvements to usability and customer experience through testing and iterative design. Collaborated with product and engineering teams to refine enterprise workflows. Helped maintain consistent UX standards across deliverables.
UI/UX Designer
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Middle
McAfee India
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Full-Time
Delivered UX/UI design and user research for enterprise security products over multiple years. Contributed to design system and UX process work to support scalable product delivery. Partnered with cross-functional teams to improve usability for enterprise workflows. Helped shape consistent interaction patterns across products.
Projects
Produced a high-quality AI explainer video for an agentic product using an AI avatar workflow and motion design. Assembled avatar clips into a coherent narrative and delivered final edits for presentation-ready output. The project demonstrates hands-on use of AI-assisted media creation and professional post-production tools.
Lightbeam Data Privacy Platform
Designed and delivered a 0→1 SaaS data privacy product experience from concept to launch. Used design systems and front-end markup to enable consistent multi-platform rollout of enterprise workflows. Designed the product storytelling and prototypes to support investor discussions and funding outcomes.
iuixd Copilot
Built an AI-powered UX review tool to accelerate usability and accessibility evaluation for digital products. Automated parts of the audit workflow using ChatGPT-based assistance and prompt-driven heuristics. The goal was to speed up evidence-based recommendations that design teams can apply during validation cycles.
Architected an open-source, enterprise-grade AI design system with reusable foundations, components, workflow patterns, and templates. Created a scalable design-to-code approach using semantic design tokens, accessibility standards, and repeatable component patterns. Focused on improving designer-developer alignment and reducing UI implementation effort for AI product experiences.
Technical skills
Languages
3
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Design
8
Figma
Webflow
Balsamiq
UserTesting
InVision
Zeroheight
FigJam
Zeplin
Frontend
6
React.js
Tailwind CSS
React Query
Zod
Angular
Radix UI
Other
16
ChatGPT
Claude
Vitest
Lit
React Hook Form
GitHub
Vite
Storybook
Copilot
Google AI Studio
PostCSS
AI Agents
QA
CI/CD
Prompt Engineering
Web Components
Junior QA Engineer
Confidence: Medium SDET
Frontend design-system engineer focused on cross-framework component libraries and their testability, evaluated here at a Senior level based on repository scope and engineering patterns. The strongest proven skill is building and maintaining component test infrastructure and multi-framework packaging as shown by vitest configs and many component test files (packages/*/vitest.config.ts and packages/*/src/*/*.test.ts). There is little public evidence of E2E/browser automation, API contract testing, or performance/load testing in the provided human-authored code.
Test Automation Frameworks
6/10
Building automated tests
Solid test automation framework and infra evidence: repo contains vitest configs, shared setup files, and many component test files across frameworks indicating an organized test setup for component/unit testing.
Evidence
packages/ui/vitest.config.ts
packages/ui/vitest.setup.ts
packages/angular/vitest.config.ts
Test Coverage & Strategy
4/10
What and how to test
Meaningful unit and component tests exist but most visible artifacts are conventional component tests and setup files; there is limited explicit evidence of risk-based test strategy, property-based testing, or documented negative-path suites in the human-authored code alone.
Evidence
packages/angular/src/button/lumen-button.test.ts
packages/web-components/src/button/lumen-button.test.ts
packages/ui/src/spacing-tokens.test.ts
API & Integration Testing
2/10
Testing how parts work together
Minimal API/integration testing evidence; repo focuses on UI component packages and scaffolding, with a few CLI/scaffold unit tests but no contract-testing or testcontainers-based integration artifacts.
Evidence
packages/create-app/src/scaffold.test.ts
packages/create-app/vitest.config.ts
Performance & Load Testing
Testing speed under load
Not evidenced in public code
Bug Reporting & Analysis
2/10
Finding and describing bugs
Some process and traceability for fixes and PRs is visible in docs and templates, but there are few standalone reproducible bug reports or linked root-cause analyses in the human-authored code files provided.
Evidence
docs/changelog.md
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
CI Test Integration
4/10
Running tests automatically
CI/test integration is present at a basic level: package scripts for typecheck/test/storybook and vitest configs are wired; explicit GitHub workflow files were referenced in metadata but are not present as human-authored scoring artifacts here.
Evidence
package.json (root) - scripts: test, build-storybook, typecheck
packages/storybook/package.json - storybook / build-storybook scripts
Expertise
SDET & Test Engineering· Junior
Unit & Component Testing· Junior
Technologies
QA
CI/CD
TypeScript· since 2025 · Junior
Vitest
Recommendations
- Develop and own design-system component test infrastructure, including expanding test coverage to explicit negative-path and boundary tests for upload/async flows.
- Build E2E automation (Playwright or equivalent) and visual regression gates for Storybook-driven components to catch integration and visual regressions earlier.
- Add contract or integration tests where components interact with APIs or CLI scaffolding, using schema validation or lightweight testcontainers where appropriate.
- Drive CI improvements: per-PR selective test runs, artifact capture (screenshots/videos) for failing UI tests, and a quarantine mechanism for flaky tests.
Repositories
The developer's experience in this domain has been verified based on AI analysis of the following repositories:
Intern Backend Developer
Confidence: Medium Generalist
A frontend/monorepo-focused engineer producing a multi-package design system and developer tooling at a junior level with early, practical experience. The strongest proven skill is packaging and cross-framework component architecture, evidenced by the monorepo layout, separate @lumen/tokens and @lumen/ui packages, and docs/component-architecture.md. There is little to no public evidence of backend engineering work such as API contracts, database migrations, production observability, or auth/token lifecycle handling.
API Design
2/10
How well APIs are designed
Minimal API design artifacts; there are CLI and scaffolding boundaries but no explicit HTTP API contracts, versioning, idempotency, or error-contract patterns for backend services.
Evidence
packages/create-app/src/cli.ts: CLI entrypoints and error handling signatures
package.json: root scripts for build/dev/test orchestration (script boundaries)
Data Layer & Database
Working with databases
Not evidenced in public code
Scalability & Performance
2/10
Handling load and speed
Basic build/test and Storybook orchestration present but no measured performance work, caching/invalidation strategy, queueing, or rate-limiting logic.
Evidence
package.json: build-storybook and test/typecheck scripts
packages/storybook/package.json: Storybook build and runtime dependencies
System Architecture
3/10
Overall system structure
Clear monorepo packaging and multi-framework component decomposition (tokens, ui, patterns, web-components, angular) showing deliberate module boundaries, but no cross-service contracts or service decomposition trade-offs beyond library packaging.
Evidence
package.json: monorepo scripts and workspace orchestration at the repo root
packages/tokens/package.json: separate tokens package and exports
docs/component-architecture.md: component contracts and architecture guidance
Security & Auth
1/10
Protecting data and access
Governance and policy files exist, but there is no backend auth/session/token lifecycle or input-boundary security engineering present in the analyzed code.
Evidence
CLAUDE.md: repository agent governance and instructions
AGENTS.md: guidance for AI agents operating in the repo (governance)
Reliability & Observability
3/10
Stability and monitoring
Repository shows reliable test setups, vitest configs and build/test scripts indicating attention to CI and local validation, but lacks production-grade observability (metrics/alerts/tracing) or robust retry/circuit-breaker patterns.
Evidence
packages/ui/vitest.setup.ts: test harness setup and polyfills
package.json: repo-wide test and typecheck scripts
Expertise
Node.js· Intern
System Architecture· Intern
Industries
Software· Intern
Technologies
Node JS
Recommendations
- Develop and maintain cross-framework component libraries and design-system packaging (tokens, UI primitives, Storybook integration).
- Build CLI developer tooling and scaffolding (create-app style) that wires tokens and packages into consumer apps.
- Implement end-to-end test and CI improvements for release validation and Storybook visual QA; add lightweight observability and performance benchmarks for builds.
Repositories
The developer's experience in this domain has been verified based on AI analysis of the following repositories:
Intern Frontend Developer
Confidence: Low Generalist
Frontend design-system engineer (Junior) focused on building cross-framework UI component libraries and pattern-driven screens. The strongest proven skill is implementing and maintaining a multi-package design system and component library, evidenced by the presence of the @lumen/ui package manifest (packages/ui/package.json) and pattern artifacts such as DataExtractionOnboardingPage (packages/patterns/src/DataExtractionOnboardingPage.mdx). There is little to no human-authored code in the analyzed HUMAN-AUTHORED bucket showing advanced state-machine logic, measured performance work, or non-trivial server-side integration, so senior-level system design and performance optimization are not evidenced.
UI Component Architecture
How interface parts are built
Not evidenced in public code
Responsive & Cross-browser
Works on all screens and browsers
Not evidenced in public code
Performance Optimization
Speed of the interface
Not evidenced in public code
Accessibility & Semantics
Usable for everyone
Not evidenced in public code
State Management & Data Flow
Managing data in the app
Not evidenced in public code
UX & Visual Polish
Look and feel quality
Not evidenced in public code
Expertise
React· Intern
Angular· Intern
Frontend Architecture & Build Tools· Intern
Industries
Software· Intern
Technologies
JavaScript
Tailwind CSS
Angular
React.js
Lit
Vite
React Query
Radix UI
Storybook
PostCSS
Zod
Web Components
React Hook Form
GitHub
Design· mentioned only
UI· mentioned only
Recommendations
- Assign to expand or maintain component libraries and Storybook stories (component bug fixes, token sync, visual parity tasks).
- Use to implement Figma-driven component and pattern changes that map to existing tokens and primitives (pixel-fidelity updates, new variants).
- Have them add docs, tests, and Storybook examples for new components and patterns to raise visibility and QA coverage.
- Pair with a senior engineer for advanced client-side state flows, performance tuning, or cross-framework contract harmonization work.
Repositories
The developer's experience in this domain has been verified based on AI analysis of the following repositories:
Job preferences
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- India
- Citizenship
- India
- Employment type
- Full-Time
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