Putta Manikanta
Product Designer
Mining Engineer Product Designer
Before pixels, there were rocks.
I studied Mining Engineering.
I spent a month underground.
Textbooks became real.
The terrain changed.
The instinct to investigate didn't.
Now I apply that mindset to digital products.
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Today, I design by going deeper into digital products across fintech, commerce and B2B.
I usually work end to end — understanding the problem, mapping the experience, designing the interface, prototyping it, and working with developers through build. I enjoy products where the complexity isn’t always visible on the screen.
A few numbers behind the work
A few products I’ve helped take from messy problems to clearer experiences.
Four years at SkyGoal, from intern to senior — with increasing ownership.
Not a design project. The experience that shaped how I approach them.
Shanthikhani Underground Coal Mine · Mining Engineering · 1 Month
Before I designed digital products, I spent a month learning how complex systems work underground — development and extraction, blasting, gas testing, ventilation, and the machinery that keeps a mine breathing. It was my first real experience of seeing how much complexity exists between a system on paper and the way it actually works in the field.
Explore experienceBased in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Currently open to new work.
I'm a product designer with four years of experience building software people use to do something real — move money, run a business, buy something, play.
Most of that work has been end to end: understanding the problem, structuring the flow, designing the interface, and staying with it through build. I'm most useful on products with genuine complexity underneath — an operational process, a payment rail, a system with more states than screens. I like taking something tangled and finding the structure that was already in it.
I care about products being honest: telling someone what will happen before it happens, showing a real state instead of a comfortable one, and not spending a person's attention on decoration.
Have a problem worth solving?