Chinmay Shinde
23 · Product Design Engineer · Bengaluru, IN
How it started ?
I grew up in Sangli, a tier 2 city in Maharashtra. Evenings were for cricket or football on the ground, and I enjoyed drawing classes. I was that kid who loved both maths and art.
After 10th, I chose PCM and eventually landed in engineering. But somehow I stumbled into a college fest design team in 2021, and something clicked.
I realized my engineering brain and my creative side were never really opposites. They were both just looking for the same thing to understand how things work, and make them work better for people.
Building things that make sense
Everything humans have built is product design. A city's metro map. The grip on a surgical tool. The way a staircase curves so you naturally slow down before you reach the bottom. We've been designing products long before screens existed, and that's the lens I try to look through. Zoomed out, taking in the whole picture.
Experience
Freelance | Product Design Engineer
Dec '25 – Present
Mellow Design Studio | UX/UI Designer
June '25 – Aug '25
Zinnov | Designer
Oct '24 – Nov '24
Purple Cow | Designer
April '23 –July '23
Outside of Design
Looking for full time design engineer roles
Building fun side projects with Claude
Finally hitting the gym consistently
Playing badminton occasionally
Deconstruct & Rebuild
We are the ancestors of the future.
The responsibility of building today is to leave behind a world that is more intuitive and less fragmented than the one we found.
How it started ?
I grew up in Sangli, a tier 2 city in Maharashtra. Evenings were for cricket or football on the ground, and I enjoyed drawing classes. I was that kid who loved both maths and art.
After 10th, I chose PCM and eventually landed in engineering. But somehow I stumbled into a college fest design team in 2021, and something clicked.
I realized my engineering brain and my creative side were never really opposites. They were both just looking for the same thing to understand how things work, and make them work better for people.
Building things that make sense
Everything humans have built is product design. A city's metro map. The grip on a surgical tool. The way a staircase curves so you naturally slow down before you reach the bottom. We've been designing products long before screens existed, and that's the lens I try to look through. Zoomed out, taking in the whole picture.
Experience
Freelance | Product Design Engineer
Dec '25 – Present
Mellow Design Studio | UX/UI Designer
June '25 – Aug '25
Zinnov | Designer
Oct '24 – Nov '24
Purple Cow | Designer
April '23 –July '23
My toolkit
Outside of Design
Looking for full time design engineer roles
Building fun side projects with Claude
Finally hitting the gym consistently
Playing badminton occasionally
Deconstruct & Rebuild
We are the ancestors of the future.
The responsibility of building today is to leave behind a world that is more intuitive and less fragmented than the one we found.
Messy Archive
A sneak peek into my life
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I am a textbook Bangalore weather enthusiast, I'll never get tired of this climate.
