Ayush Saran

Turning early ideas into refined, production-ready experiences. 15+ years spanning UX design, frontend engineering and product development. Experienced building B2B SaaS platforms using React, Next.js and TypeScript, with recent work focused on AI-assisted workflows, prompt evaluation systems and developer tooling. Enjoy working in small cross-functional teams where engineers help shape product direction as well as implementation.

I do my best work in small, multidisciplinary teams built on trust and autonomy.

Full Stack Developer — Front-End focus at dTravel (2023-01 – Present)

Working across Product, Design and Engineering teams to develop and ship features for the core booking platform and AI related initiatives for a large-scale travel booking platform using React, Next.js and TypeScript.

• Partnered closely with product managers and leadership to shape new booking experiences from early concepts through implementation.
• Designed and built an internal AI observability platform for evaluating prompt performance, dataset management and extraction accuracy.
• Improved AI extraction accuracy from roughly 50% to over 85% through prompt experimentation, evaluation tooling and ground-truth datasets.
• Built internal tooling for prompt versioning, reporting and experiment workflows used by engineering and product teams.
• Prototyped AI-powered travel search and booking experiences.

Co-Founder, Lead Product Designer at KingdomOfCalm (2012-01 – 2023-12)

Indie Lifestyle Brand

• Founded and led product strategy, branding and design
• Designed and launched 15+ consumer products
• Managed manufacturing partners
• Built ecommerce experiences via Shopify/WooCommerce
• Ran online and offline retail operations
• Led marketing campaigns

Interaction Design Specialist at Directi (2010-01 – 2011-12)

Enterprise Web Solutions. Served as Product Designer on multiple in-house business verticals. Contributed with UI/UX Design and Front-End Development along with junior project management roles.

Front End Developer at RealTSP (2009-01 – 2010-12)

eCommerce Agency. Worked on multiple concurrent client website redesigns and maintenance projects for European fashion brands using our in-house eCommerce platform.

UI Designer/Dev at digital-telepathy (2007-01 – 2008-12)

UXD Agency. Worked as junior designer and developer on all current client projects, assisted senior developer with UI and stylesheets.

MSc in User Interaction Design – Kingston University (2008-08 – 2010-05)

BSc in Media Arts – Platt College (2004-08 – 2007-03)