Waleed Irfan

Senior / Staff Product Designer with nearly two decades of experience designing complex enterprise SaaS, B2B SaaS, GovTech, dashboards, admin tools, AI assistant experiences, platform workflows, and data-heavy decision-support systems. Strong in product strategy, product discovery, ideation, user flows, journey mapping, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, high-fidelity UI, design systems, accessibility, design-to-development handoff, and implementation QA. Known for bringing clarity to ambiguous product problems, partnering closely with PM, engineering, SMEs, and executives, and shaping scalable experiences that balance user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and production quality.

Staff Product Designer, UX/UI & Front-End Lead - Infrastructure Solutions Inc

(2019-02)

Design and deliver GovTech, enterprise SaaS, asset management, infrastructure planning, and decision-support experiences for B2G and B2B clients across North America.

• Lead experience strategy and end-to-end product design by aligning user needs, public-sector workflows, stakeholder priorities, accessibility constraints, technical feasibility, and implementation quality.
• Partner with VP, SMEs, PMs, and engineering to frame problems, shape requirements, run lightweight research input, simplify complex workflows, influence roadmap decisions, and create scalable UX direction across product modules.
• Design AI product experiences, AI assistant workflows, conversational UX, task-focused response models, feedback loops, limited-information states, accessibility behavior, and AI-assisted research, prototyping, ideation, and documentation practices.
• Create wireframes, user flows, interaction models, high-fidelity UI, Figma prototypes, product demos, dashboards, data visualization interfaces, optimization tools, and developer-ready specs for complex enterprise users.
• Establish design-system standards, reusable components, responsive layouts, high-contrast themes, Figma libraries, accessibility patterns, quality standards, and scalable UI governance across enterprise product surfaces.
• Review shipped implementation through usability testing, stakeholder feedback loops, visual QA, cross-browser validation, accessibility validation using JAWS/NVDA, and Agile iteration with product and engineering teams.

Founder, Staff Product Designer, Front-End Developer & AI Product Architect - StratOps

(2026-04)

Designed and developed a real-time, multi-domain situational intelligence visualization platform combining OSINT, telemetry, geospatial visualization, and layered operational workflows.

• Defined founder-led product vision, UX strategy, service design lens, IA, roadmap priorities, onboarding, access-control models, product architecture, and front-end delivery path for a complex geospatial SaaS product.
• Designed regional lenses, data filters, command-center dashboards, alerts, contextual panels, map-based workflows, journey states, and multi-source visualization patterns for professional situational-awareness users.
• Balanced real-time data visualization, Cesium/WebGL performance, usability, visual hierarchy, scalable UI patterns, and system constraints across a complex 3D globe experience.
• Built and coordinated front-end delivery using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AWS CloudFront, S3, Route53, Supabase, and AI-assisted design/development workflows.
• Created and optimized 70+ low-poly aircraft, naval, satellite, and infrastructure 3D assets in Blender for real-time web visualization.

Senior Product Designer & Front-End Lead - BattlespaceX

(2018 - 2022)

Led product design, front-end architecture, project coordination, and digital platform delivery for a defense-focused website and CMS ecosystem.

• Defined product requirements, delivery roadmaps, information architecture, responsive UX/UI patterns, design-to-development standards, and maintainable content workflows.
• Designed and implemented responsive interfaces while improving usability, performance, validation quality, documentation, analytics instrumentation, structured data, and technical SEO.
• Partnered with content, marketing, and technical teams to align user experience, discoverability, platform governance, and long-term maintainability.

Chief Creative Officer - Enabling Systems and ApproachMe Inc

(2016-11 - 2019-02)

Led product design, creative direction, mobile app UX/UI, branding, and digital experience strategy across marketplace, location-awareness, and vehicle-tracking products.

• Designed mobile experiences for e-commerce marketplace, location-awareness, and vehicle-tracking products connected to OBD hardware and real-time telemetry.
• Directed product visuals, brand systems, marketing campaigns, mobile UX, and cross-platform design patterns from concept through high-fidelity execution.
• Combined UX leadership, visual design, front-end awareness, and product judgment to support strategy, delivery, and product-market presentation.

Senior Lead UX/UI & Graphic Designer - iENGINEERING

(2007-11 - 2016-10)

Designed large-scale transportation, infrastructure analytics, digital publishing, e-commerce, and knowledge-management platforms for federal and state agency contexts.

• Led UX/UI for LTPP InfoPave, Distress Survey, U.S. Transportation DataMine, and infrastructure data platforms involving complex engineering workflows and field data collection.
• Translated technical engineering data into accessible web and mobile interfaces through IA, interaction design, usability thinking, visual systems, user-centered research input, and decision making.
• Supported digital publishing, e-commerce, conference branding, marketing systems, content delivery, and enterprise communication platforms.