10+ years across visual craft, enterprise SaaS, fintech, design systems, and product leadership.
I'm Gunalan, Recently worked as Lead UX/UI Designer with 10+ years across FinTech, TaxTech, payroll and logistics SaaS. For the last six years at SPAN Technology Services, I took products like WealthRabbit, TaxBandits, Tax990 and 123PayStubs from research and rough flows to design systems and shipped screens.
10+
Across FinTech, TaxTech, payroll and logistics SaaS — research through shipped screens.
$1M
WealthRabbit's first year after launch, with onboarding and portfolio flows I designed end to end.
Open to Lead Product Design roles, complex product problems, and teams that want design systems to do real work.
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The shared design system cut duplicate work across TaxBandits and Tax990.
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12+ training sessions on craft, critique and design-system discipline.
2022 — 2026
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FinTech · 0 → 1 · Lead UX/UI · 2024–2026
A brand-new IRA platform with no design foundation and five very different audiences. I led end-to-end design, built the system from scratch, and it hit $1M AUM within a year of launch.
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Payroll · Redesign · 2026
A form-heavy generator that had grown cluttered. I simplified the three-step flow with progressive disclosure, clearer validation and a modernised visual system.
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TaxBandits · Tax990 · Design system · 2022–2026
The first design system for SPAN's enterprise tax products. 96% design consistency, 40% less design time per feature, 35% shorter dev cycles.
Read the case studyI started in web design in 2014, then went wherever the craft took me: vector illustration for Elsevier e-books, print production for banking and government clients at RR Donnelley, product imaging at Amazon. Each stop taught me something product design needs — precision, production discipline, and how visuals earn (or lose) a customer's trust.
When the 2020 lockdown hit, I used the pause to retrain in UX — then joined SPAN Technology Services as a web designer and worked my way to Lead UX/UI Designer. There I led design on a zero-to-one fintech product, built design systems used across five products, and mentored a team of six designers.
These days I also design with AI in the loop — Claude plus our Figma system for faster exploration, documentation and component work — while keeping human judgment firmly in charge. What I'm after hasn't changed since the beginning: complicated things, made genuinely simple.
Not client work — a self-initiated case study I ran end to end to test an idea of my own: problem framing, research, flows, and a designed solution. Flip through it below.
2020 – 2026
Web Designer → Senior UX/UI Designer → Lead UX/UI Designer
Owned end-to-end UX across WealthRabbit, Tax990, TaxBandits, 123PayStubs and TruckLogics. Architected the Figma design system (96% consistency, 40% faster per-feature design), cut development cycles by 35% through early prototyping and tight engineering collaboration, introduced usability testing and a GenAI-assisted design workflow, and mentored 6 designers.
2019 – 2020
Retouched and quality-checked high-volume product imagery for Amazon's retail catalog — where image accuracy directly shapes customer trust.
2017 – 2018
Produced print-ready assets for banking and government clients — strict specs, zero tolerance for error.
2015 – 2017
Vector illustrations and layouts for Elsevier e-books — typography, colour and consistency at publication standard.
2014 – 2015
Where it started: responsive layouts, logos and marketing collateral in HTML and CSS.
B.E., Electronics and Communication Engineering — Anna University, 2014 · First Class
I'm the designer who can sit with a compliance edge case at 10am and present the roadmap to stakeholders at 4pm — research to shipped pixels, plus the system that keeps it coherent after handover.
I start with the messy part — who’s confused, where they drop off, and what the business actually needs to happen.
Interfaces that survive real content and real edge cases, documented so engineers don’t have to guess.
I bring engineers and stakeholders into the process early, and grow the designers around me.
Fluent enough in code and AI tooling to prototype an idea instead of describing it.
A decade of craft behind the product work — brand, campaigns and print when the product needs a voice.
