Oracle
Company
Product Design Lead
Role
2020-2025
Year
At Oracle I led the design and ownership of DevOps Portal, a platform hosting all of Oracle Cloud's critical developer tooling ranging from Operations, CI/CD, Security and Maintenance.
I led design of many 0-1 products and features that were focused on boosting developer efficiency, hyper scalability of cloud and preventing huge monetary losses.
Preventing large scale outages
caused by developer error
Oracle Cloud, like any other cloud provider, is prone to downtime. These incidents sometimes occur due to developer errors that bypass existing checkpoints. Any major outage could cost Oracle $10M-$100M per hour in losses, while also damaging market reputation. I led the design of a new service called "Guardrails" that catches and prevents developer errors before deployment, saving Oracle from potential multi-million-dollar losses.
My role
Working alongside the chief architect and engineering leadership, I designed and developed and successfully launched this new service while working in the capacity of both lead designer and PM. I was responsible for building this 0-1 service and integrating it into existing developer workflows with minimal disruption, while ensuring safety and compliance.
I created a vision to drive alignment between multiple product teams, built a roadmap for implementation and testing, and integrated the service into existing deployment tooling—bringing safety into the developer workflow through a carefully planned rollout.
Automating host patching
and ensure security compliance
Oracle developers had to spend a lot of manual effort to perform the recurring task of host patching to ensure security compliance of their product and protect Oracle cloud against bad actors. I designed and launched the Automated Host Patching service that automated this cyclical process for service teams, saving Oracle an estimated $2M every month in developer time while enhancing security robustness.
My role
I led the design of the service from scratch and strategized an implementation plan for the team to launch the service on schedule, prioritizing key customer goals. I conducted customer research that persuaded the product team to abandon elaborate scenarios that were expensive to build, would have delayed the project, and weren't customer priorities.
I designed this service with a deep understanding of developer workflows and familiarity with the existing DevOps portal. This allowed me to build an intuitive, simple solution focused on operations and monitoring.
DOPE design systems
and guidelines & templates
While the DOPE design systems used for DevOps Portal was based on an open source design system, it was heavily customized for specific scenarios, used a lot of custom components and was not available on Figma.
My Role
I created the UI Kit for DOPE design systems with my team in Figma, and formulated the guidelines on how to utilize it.
I worked with the developer team to build reusable templates that product teams could use to quickly build their applications for Devops portal with minimal design support, saving both developer and designer time.
Get in touch with me to learn more about my experience building developer tooling at Oracle.