Rakesh Patwari
Director Product Design and Educator in San Francisco, CA
I design, teach design at UC Berkeley and enable design as a director of design at Salesforce.
I was on track to be a computer engineer. However, things changed when I was introduced to Photoshop. It was love at first sight, learning one tool led to the other and soon my curiosity coupled with grit made me an autodidact designer and metamorphosed me from a programmer-with-design-chops to a designer-who-understands-tech.
In the 20 years long career I worked at product companies, start-ups and consulting organizations alike across diverse and challenging technical problem spaces. I designed and shipped the flagship products.
Apple, Juniper Networks, Linkedin, and Cognizant technologies are some of the companies I worked with or consulted for.
I was fortunate to have been an invited speaker, panelist, and featured in podcasts and am a design mentor for startups and hackathons.