Designer & Developer based in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, scaling music production at Epidemic Sound.
With over 5 years of design experience, Raghu loves to be in the sweet spot of being a product guy and a software engineer. He is deeply interested in design technologies and loves to design for technically challenging products. He believes that all designers should code to express their ideas.
In the past he has worked with companies including Browserstack, ClearTax (YC 14), Google, LinkedIn, Tessin SE. In his free time, he has been an open-source contributor to several projects including ownCloud, Nextcloud, KDE, openSUSE, etc.
He enjoys working with autonomous product teams where he can collaborate with the product owner to strategize from a design standpoint while helping engineers deliver the best user experience for the consumers.
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During summer 2020, Epidemic Sound refreshed its brand identity to suit their refined purpose. This also gave them a chance to unify their overall brand experience and build a common design language that could be used across the company.
Raghu led the efforts from the UX prototyping standpoint that allowed his team to take quick decisions early in the creative process.
Team:
— Linus Wahlstedt (Creative Director)
— Mikael Danielsson (Product Desginer)
— Mikael Westman (Product Desginer)
— Andres Peyrou (Product Desginer)
— Ella Nylén (User Researcher)
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Epidemic Sound is one of the largest music providers to storytellers, streaming services, broadcasters, production companies, DSPs across the world with a catalog spanning over 30.000 tracks. Their music is heard in hundreds of millions of online videos daily, across millions of playlist streams, and in thousands of in-store locations.
At Epidemic Sound, Raghu currently leads design for Kosmos, a product his team built ground up, to help scale and manage their music catalog and find the right music that storytellers would want to use to soundtrack their videos. This product forms the backbone of Epidemic Sound's customer-facing platform as well as data infrastructure.
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Browserstack is the world's most widely used cross-browser testing application with subscribers including Microsoft, Expedia, jQuery to name a few.
At Browserstack, Raghu helped ship the first BrowserStack re-design with an entirely new user experience for all our product offerings. He maintained the style guide and helped to conduct A / B tests across their pricing and landing pages.
Team:
— Sagar Patil
— Lokesh Khemani
— Aaron Durham
— Arun Pattnaik
— Parag Nandi
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Epidemic Sound
Initiating the design systems project in order to streamline work between different autonomous product teams.
Epidemic Sound
Designing for the first & wildly successful business subscription offering, to be used by brands including GoPro & Netflix.
Ericsson Research
Visualizing a stream of data from smart robots in smart in autonomous warehouses in the form of a dashboard.