Vilakshan Khanna

Co-Founder

Canada4 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 5 years of experience in startup design and strategy.
  • Expert in product design and user research methodologies.
  • Proven track record in securing significant project contracts.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Designer with a strong focus on user experience and community-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUi/uxUser ResearchProduct DevelopmentCustomer Relationship Management (crm)Software Quality AssuranceProblem SolvingMachine LearningData AnalysisCustomer RetentionGame Development

Other Skills

BrandingGo-to-Market StrategyCreative Problem SolvingProduct ConceptCommunity DevelopmentStrategy ImplementationCustomer SatisfactionStrategic PlanningTechnical SupportCross-functional Team LeadershipCritical ThinkingProgrammingBusiness DevelopmentPartnership DevelopmentPrototyping

About

5 years of experience in building with startups [Customer interviews, Product testing, Pivoting, UI/UX, Branding, Community Development, Business Strategy] Availability: Open to work full-time and freelance design and creative strategy opportunities in startups Experience: Design Engineer, Product Design, Branding My design philosophy: I see design as a medium of expression that conveys intention and identity. When that channel is crafted thoughtfully, people feel empowered in their self expression. I design systems that anticipate needs; unmet and unforeseen; communicate care, and create space for self discovery. Design allows people to express their undefined intentions. This philosophy takes form through product design for startups and through community-driven experiences, exploring the intersection of art, technology, and human connection. Grounded in research and experimentation, my work seeks to humanize technology, designing systems that respond to emotional intent and feel integrated into the rhythm of physical life rather than detached from it.

Experience

4 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Draftaid

Founding Designer

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  • Shaping product UI/UX, brand, and go-to-market design for Draftaid's AI-powered engineering drawing automation platform. Building the design function from the ground up.
UI/UXBrandingGo-to-Market StrategyProduct Design

Trails

2 roles

Co-Founder and Designer

Promoted

Jun 2025Dec 2025 · 6 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Trails automates manual workflows with secure AI to help legal firms deliver fast, high quality output for their clients
  • Leading Vision, Product, and Design

Product Designer

Feb 2025May 2025 · 3 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

555 studio

Co-Founder & Designer

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • A creative experimentation studio
  • stay tuned here: 555-studio.com

Matrox video

2 roles

Associate Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2024Apr 2024 · 3 mos

  • Collaborated with cross functional teams and product managers on developing product visions and strategy for Matrox’s B2B segment, leveraging deep insights on customer pain points and implementing best development practices in C++.
  • ✓ Secured a $1M project contract with media companies – Designed and tested Matrox’s Large Canvas feature, enhancing newsroom broadcasting with GPU technology. Collaborated with product managers and engineers, demoed to 3 sales teams, and drove adoption by major media companies.
  • ✓ Spearheaded development of 5 product features – Using customer insights and KPIs, collaborated with engineering, product managers, and QA to test and refine GPU broadcasting and networking features, resolving post-release issues and spearheading re-deployments.
  • ✓ Cut support queries by 95% – Led development and release of 10 product guides for Matrox GPU architecture and networking protocols through collaboration with engineering, directly addressing customer queries.
Product DevelopmentCustomer RetentionStrategic PlanningCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Technical SupportStrategy Implementation+2

Software Quality Assurance

May 2023Dec 2023 · 7 mos

  • Played a key role in quality testing Matrox’s hardware products, contributing to the seamless rollout of multiple major software builds and driving continuous improvements in product quality and automation processes.
  • ✓ Rollout of 5 major builds – Spearheading testing initiatives through agile sprints on Jira, resulting in the successful deployment of significant software updates.
  • ✓ Cut release times by 45% – Designed and executed automated solutions that streamlined release processes,
  • enhancing productivity.
  • ✓ Enhanced software quality and efficiency – Conducted user interviews to pinpoint and address testing pain points and repeated workflows, introducing automation processes and increasing testing efficiency.
Software Quality AssuranceCritical ThinkingProgrammingProblem SolvingStrategy ImplementationCustomer Satisfaction

The butterfly project

Product Designer

May 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Swiping-based apps are draining, overly focused on social validation, and lack depth.
  • Meetups and traditional social settings feel uncurrated, requiring significant effort to find relatable individuals and navigate awkward interactions.
  • Social barriers, such as fear of rejection, anxiety, and over-investment of emotional energy, prevent people from seeking connections confidently.
  • Product roadmapping, prototyping, user interviews, community development, event organizing, software development.
  • +20 events, +150 users
User ResearchGo-to-Market StrategyCreative Problem SolvingProduct ConceptCommunity DevelopmentStrategy Implementation+2

Nucliq biologics

Product Marketing

May 2022Sep 2022 · 4 mos · St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  • Gut health is very important. To understand how well yours is doing, normally getting tests done in hospitals takes ages. Nucliq Biologics developed a personalised gut health checker that uses machine learning to help you improve yours.
  • ✓ Grew customer signups by 60% – Analysed competitors product offerings, forming targeted digital marketing campaigns and outbound sales strategies, significantly increasing user interaction and social media engagement.
  • ✓ Acquired the first 100 customers, generating $10,000 – Generated leads through revamping social media acquisition funnel by upselling, networking in industry events, and implementing customer referral strategies with A/B testing product offerings.
  • ✓ Increased conversion rates by 20% – Delivered compelling product demos to key stakeholders with strong storytelling and filming, articulating product’s value proposition and driving sales conversions through marketing funnels.
Data AnalysisUser ResearchCustomer RetentionCustomer AnalysisSocial Media MarketingStrategy Implementation+2

Tecnishe

Product Designer

Jul 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  • Emergency rooms have long waiting times. Triaging is not efficient with the current demand, so we developed a remote triaging solution for patients that uses AI.
  • ✓ Cut hospital wait times by 5 hours – Spearheaded product development of medical SaaS using GPT-4 and LLM’s, resulting in patients to self assess and redirect to telehealth services, optimizing patient flow and reducing hospital congestion.
  • ✓ Conducted 200+ interviews – Formed key B2B and B2H partnerships with 2 telehealth companies, a public hospital, and Government Innovation Hub, addressing patient pains and prototyping features with Flutter and Figma ensuring user centric designs and functionality.
  • ✓ Boosted diagnosis accuracy by 10% – Trained machine learning models with Python using Pandas and NumPy to perform data analysis on 100+ patient data sets, improving patient prioritization and emergency room flow.
  • ✓ Negotiated investments up to 1 million dollars – Closed investments of more than $13,000 with investors, incubator programs, and winning startup competitions.
Data AnalysisProduct DevelopmentUser ResearchBusiness DevelopmentPartnership DevelopmentMachine Learning+5

Mentic

Game Developer

May 2021Sep 2021 · 4 mos · St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

  • Children with autism living in remote conditions struggle to get therapy. Mentic developed a remote therapy solution. To improve the experience of children, I developed an interactive 3D game using Unity to improve their communication skills.
  • ✓ Increased quarterly revenue by 43% – Led the product roadmap and end-to-end development in 4 months of a therapeutic video game for children with autism, onboarding 4 therapy clinics, and 15 children upon beta release.
  • ✓ Surged player engagement by 70% – Implemented A/B testing methodologies and UI design principles, wireframing and prototyping features in Figma and Unity with C#, achieving a substantial rise in user interaction.
  • ✓ Conducted more than 50 qualitative interviews – Enhanced product development by using customer insights and collaborating with therapists, addressing user needs effectively and establishing strong product market fit.
User ResearchC#Customer RetentionResearch and Development (R&D)Game DevelopmentUnity+6

Education

Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador

Bachelor of Science - BS

Jan 2020Jan 2024

International Baccalaureate

International Baccalaureate Diploma

Aug 2018Jul 2020

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