Atharva Pargaonkar

I am highly motivated and passionate product designer with a strong knowledge of design Process, problem solving and prototyping. I use the best of my skills to design simple but effective products.

Designing for me is to not only give aesthetic value to a product or service but developing meaningful and effective designing solutions that can be understood, accepted, and accessed by everyone.

Zen technologies limited | Product Design Engineer (Defence Simulations)

Jul 2021 - Present | Hyderabad, India

I am working as an individual contributor in product design department responsible to maintain and support requirements for all designing needs helping the research and manufacturing teams.

I work with the manufacturing teams to complete the initial research and user journey of the product. I am developing the initial wireframes, final screens, and prototypes for both hardware and software design. I currently worked on building new and improving some of the existing product line which includes SMART Target System, Shoot Edge, Anti-Drone System, Armour Combat Training System (Umpire gun design).

The work I did helped improve the physical aesthetics and user experience of the products.

Marut drones| Product Design Intern

Dec 2020 - Jun2021 | Hyderabad, India

As a design intern completing my final year internship, I helped the team to design and improve the drone attachments. The major objective was to design lower weight attachments which will help increase the airtime for drone. I researched the existing attachments, understood user needs and delivered design concepts, concept sketches, 3D models, Renders. I 3D printed the attachment parts and tested the concepts for production.

I worked on graphic design for company’s social media posts, campaign posters and infographics.

B.Des (Product Design)