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Hi! I'm Rupak.

I've worked as a product manager, UI/UX designer and architect. My interest in building new things has taken me through an unusual career trajectory – one that has fortunately given me a large set of skills, useful across a wide range of industries.

Below is a summary of my career listing some projects I've done.

Feel free to reach out if you find anything interesting.

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WORK

Synaptic | 2021 – 2026:

Synaptic's core offering is a startup discovery platform for VCs and PEs. I started out as a Product Design Intern, then after a few rungs up the ladder, became a Senior Product Designer, and finally a Product Owner (which means I had responsibilities of both a full-fledged Product Manager and Designer).

By the end, I owned product strategy, quarterly roadmaps and execution, and led a cross-functional team of 11 (Design, Frontend, Backend, QA).

  • Led the beta launch of the Synaptic MCP server, allowing customers to access Synaptic data via their preferred AI applications like Claude, ChatGPT, etc. This new distribution channel ensured $1M+ ARR retention from top-tier VC firms.
  • Designed & led the release of Company Screener 2.0, building it around natural language chat and advanced filters. This new version got to 65% preferred adoption within 6 months of release.
  • Led the release of business overview fields for companies, allowing users to better understand a company's offerings and market positioning.
  • Conceptualized and shipped a new company search model which improved result accuracy by 21 percentage points over the previous model (77% -> 98%, P@Top100). Read more
  • Led the design and delivery of an improved company onboarding pipeline, which increased processing speed by 30x and saved $400K in operating costs. Read more
  • Designed a new mobile companion app extending Synaptic's web application, achieving ~30% customer adoption within 6 months of release. App Store Play Store
  • Designed reusable chart components for complex data visualizations on the Synaptic mobile app; published the library on Figma community, reaching 6,000+ users. Component library
  • Designed an improved authentication system supporting email/password, magic link 2FA, SAML and OAuth (Google, Okta, Microsoft). Over 300+ organizations eventually used this system.

VersionAbsolute Design Studio | 2019 – 2021

VADS is a wayfinding and signage design firm with a diverse portfolio in retail, commercial, hospitality and airports. Most of my fundamentals in information and interface design were built here. Although the medium in this case is physical, a lot of skills translate well to the digital domain.

  • Designed campus-wide multilingual wayfinding and navigation system for Amrita Hospital, India's largest private hospital (3.6M sq ft across a 130-acre campus) supporting ~15K daily occupants and visitors. Read more
  • Designed building-wide integrated physical and digital wayfinding system for DNR Altitude (800,000 sq ft commercial campus across 20 floors) serving ~7,000 daily visitors. Read more
  • Managed end-to-end project delivery: client presentations, site visits, and coordination with 10+ external stakeholder organizations (architects, developers, consultants, vendors)
EDUCATION

School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi | 2013 – 2018

My thesis project was an exploration of developing curiosity via built space. I proposed a Science and Technology Centre in the IIT Delhi Campus as an interactive outreach facility, for disseminating the university's latest research and its applications to the common public.