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Pradeep Siddappa

15 years of designing and building products across fintech and e-commerce. Led design at Intuit India, founded Chiblu — a marketplace empowering Indian makers.

Designer. Founder. Builder.

Pradeep Siddappa
15+ Years in Design & Tech
6+ Products Shipped
200+ Students Mentored
3 Companies Founded / Co-founded
Founder

Chiblu.com

A marketplace empowering Indian makers — connecting artisans, creators, and small businesses with customers who value quality and craft. From sales agents to mobile apps, building the full commerce stack.

Creator

Designers Who Build

A movement for designers who don't stop at mockups. Resources, community, and real talk about shipping products — from code to customers.

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Visiting Faculty & Mentor

Visiting faculty at NID, VIT, and Mahindra University — impacting 200+ students through design education, workshops, and hands-on mentoring.

Before founding, a decade of building products at scale — from Wall Street systems to India's largest financial platforms.

Design Manager 2

Intuit, Bengaluru
Aug 2020 – Present

Led design strategy for QuickBooks Desktop Payroll, Enterprise & Online Inventory. Oversaw a global team of product and content designers. Built and scaled the QuickBooks Online Inventory design team in India — from hiring and onboarding to mentoring — while driving end-to-end design delivery across sites.

Senior Product Designer

Intuit, Bengaluru
Oct 2019 – Aug 2020

Designed end-to-end product experiences for Payroll, Enterprise, and Compliance across QuickBooks platforms in the US and Canada. Deep work in customer behavior and product data to drive usage, adoption, and conversion.

User Experience Designer

Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru
Mar 2018 – Oct 2019

Drove UX across AppBank Technology, Compliance, Productivity, and Investment Management. Evangelized design thinking through workshops. Built reusable components for the Goldman Sachs UI Toolkit, enabling consistency at scale.

Designer

Moonraft Innovation Labs, Bengaluru
Dec 2016 – Mar 2018

End-to-end design for mobile and web apps for Mahindra Finance, Asian Paints, and ICICI Bank. Award-winning work on the Asian Paints Color Visualizer app.

Co-Founder

Tarantula Labs, Gandhinagar
Apr 2015 – Oct 2015

Built a simplified Electronic Health Record system for paediatricians and gynaecologists. Conducted deep field research across maternity healthcare in India. Hands-on customer acquisition — driving outreach, building trust, and converting early adopters.

Earlier: UI Designer at Infosys · Software Engineer at Accenture

Education

Master of Design, New Media Design

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad 2013 – 2016

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical & Electronics

National Institute of Engineering, Mysore 2006 – 2010

Design Internships

Beel En Geluid Museum

Netherlands · Feb 2016 – Jun 2016

Microsoft

India · May 2015 – Jun 2015

Omnify

India · Apr 2014 – Jun 2014

Recognition

  • Campaign India Digital Crest Awards 2019 — 'Best Use of Interaction Design' Gold, for Asian Paints Color App
  • Keynote Speaker — International Conference on Digital Technologies and Transformation in Academic Libraries, NITK Suratkal
  • Visiting Faculty — NID, VIT, Mahindra University
  • D4 Conference — Founded the D4 design conference by Intuit to form cross-industry design partnerships

Let's connect

Building something interesting? Want to collaborate? Always happy to chat about design, products, and the messy middle of building.