Keerthana Ravikumar
Keerthana Ravikumar (she/her) is a Senior UX Design Engineer who merges sharp design sensibility with front-end technical fluency to create human-centered products that fit seamlessly into everyday life. In her current role at KPMG US, she partners with cross-functional teams—engineers, accountants, and stakeholders—to design usable tax and accounting platforms, ensuring designs are implementable and aligned with technical constraints.
Keerthana has led end-to-end product design work for culture-driven and civic-focused projects, most notably at CANVS where she built a first-of-its-kind web app for sourcing, creating, and exploring street art, and at Mean Genius where her redesigns increased partnerships and drove significant user growth. Her work is results-oriented—she’s shipped scalable design systems, shortened design-to-development cycles, and delivered dashboard and onboarding experiences that improved operational efficiency and user engagement.
Rooted in both computer science and product design, Keerthana earned advanced technical training from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a software engineering foundation at SRM IST Chennai. She’s also led Design for America initiatives that expanded student-led social-impact work and was selected to be featured in Influential Women 2026. Curious, empathetic, and strategic, Keerthana excels at asking the right questions, translating vision into code-friendly components, and elevating teams through thoughtful collaboration.
• SRM IST Chennai- B.Tech.
• NYU Tandon School of Engineering- M.S.
• BFA
• Watson Foundation
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to my passion and love for this field, and I’m especially proud of my work at NYU, where I helped students use a program that enabled them to excel in their classroom projects.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I’ve ever received is that you can build a career you love while also living a happy, healthy life.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My advice to young women entering this field is that you can absolutely build a successful and fulfilling career here.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenge and opportunity in my field right now is leveraging my first five years of experience to continue making a meaningful impact and moving on to my next significant achievement.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The values most important to me in my work and personal life are human-centered design, creativity, and making a positive social impact through projects like my freelance work with the Jersey City Health Department and CANVS. I am driven by the opportunity to work hard while creating meaningful experiences that benefit communities.