Prakash Chandran

CEO

San Luis Obispo, California, United States27 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-Founder & CEO of a leading visual development platform.
Led UX design for Google’s Enterprise solutions.
Experienced in SaaS and customer experience design.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and UX expert with a strong focus on user experience and design leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

User ExperienceWeb DevelopmentUx DesignSaasDesign LeadershipDesignTeachingWeb DesignQuality AssuranceVisual Design

Other Skills

User-centered DesignManagementCustomer Lifecycle ManagementCustomer RecommendationsResearchCustomer AcquisitionMentorshipGraphic DesignInteraction DesignSocial NetworkingUser InterfaceMobile ApplicationsPublic SpeakingExceptional public speakerUser Interface Design

About

Prakash is the Co-Founder & CEO of Xano.com, the leading visual development platform for building APIs, business logic, and workflows that power applications, services, and AI agents. Trusted by over 100,000 users in 90+ countries, Xano lets anyone build, connect, and scale their backend visually and without code, on secure, production-ready infrastructure. Our mission is to empower anyone to create scalable world-class software. Previously, he led the UX design & research team for Google’s Enterprise solution (Workspaces) and was the Founder & CEO of a SaaS startup in the SMB referral space. In his spare time, he is a podcast host for RadioMD.com where he interviews doctors from around the country on how they help others. He is married with three beautiful children and is based out of San Luis Obispo, California.

Experience

27 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs

Average Tenure

7 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Xano, inc.

Co-founder & CEO

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 11 mos · San Luis Obispo, California, United States

Xano is the leading visual development platform for building APIs, business logic, and workflows that power applications, services, and AI agents. Trusted by over 100,000 users in 90+ countries, Xano lets anyone build, connect, and scale their backend visually and without code, on secure, production-ready infrastructure. Our mission is to empower anyone to create scalable world-class software.

User ExperienceWeb DevelopmentUser-centered DesignManagement

Lyason

Principal

Jun 2017 – Aug 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos · San Luis Obispo, California, United States

I work with early to mid-stage SaaS companies to ensure their products' UX is seamless and delivers value at every stage of the customer lifecycle. This is done by first identifying broken workflows and then producing tangible experience-driven designs that increase customer conversion and retention.
I have worked with companies across many different industries and come armed with a partner network of experts in design, PR, growth, marketing, engineering and more.

User ExperienceUX DesignCustomer Lifecycle Management

Zabinet

Founder & CEO

Jan 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Culver City, CA

Zabinet is a platform that is focused on making it easy for consumers to recommend a business to their friends with one click after they purchase.

User ExperienceSaaSCustomer Recommendations

Google

Head of Enterprise UX

Jul 2004 – Mar 2012 · 7 yrs 8 mos · Mountain View, CA

Head of Enterprise Design & Research across all projects - Gsuite (2008 - 2012)
Design lead - Google Calendar (2006 - 2008)
Co-lead design - Picasa & v1 Google Photos (2004 - 2006)

User ExperienceDesign LeadershipResearch

Cal poly pomona

I&IT Learning Expert

Jun 2001 – Jun 2003 · 2 yrs

Responsible for meeting 1:1 with professors to teach them how to create their course website and how to use different software applications. In addition to mentorship, I led 10 how-to workshops and led the re-design of the tech department's website.

TeachingMentorshipWeb Design

Citrix online

QA Engineer & Design Intern

Jun 2000 – Jun 2002 · 2 yrs

Interned at expertcity.com (now Citrix online) for 3 summers. 2 summers as a QA engineer and 1 as a visual design intern.

Quality AssuranceVisual Design

Astral fx

Co-Founder

Feb 1996 – Jun 2007 · 11 yrs 4 mos

Design & Web Development company.
Started this company in high school and designed over 50 websites, 2 software products, 50 branding projects and countless promotional and marketing assets. I was also in charge of all customer acquisition.

Web DevelopmentDesignCustomer Acquisition