Daniel Kumar M · Senior UX Lead · UX Architect · 16+ years
I design complex digital products, and the systems that hold them together.
Enterprise platforms, product and UI design, design systems and UX architecture, for teams where the hard part is the workflow, not the screen. Currently Senior UX Lead at Platform 3 Solutions.
Role Senior UX Lead · UX Architect
Experience 16+ years
Now Platform 3 Solutions
Based Chennai, India
Open to India · remote · international
Selected work
Case studies
Different products, different structural problems
UX ownership on each, from strategy and architecture through complex workflow design, design system and developer handoff.
01 Case study · Flagship
Warehouse and lake in one platform, under one set of rules
Enterprise Data Platform
A data lakehouse that unifies warehouse and lake in one platform, holding legacy archiving, live production copies and analytics under one approach to management, security and governance. End-to-end UX ownership across archiving, governance and administration: strategy, architecture, complex workflow design, design system, and developer handoff.
Senior UX Lead · UI/UX 100% · 2022–2026 8 modules · 5 user roles · Led 1–2 UX designers
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02 Case study
Nine source systems, one way of working
Enterprise ETL Platform
The extraction, transformation and load tool that feeds an enterprise archive platform. It profiles a source system, maps its metadata, defines what to extract, runs the job and proves what moved.
Senior UX Lead · UI/UX 100% · 2019 onward 9 source families · 13 database types · Directed a small UX team
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03 Case study · Focused
Client consumption, read against what was purchased
Billing & Consumption
An internal operational tool for selecting clients, comparing their consumption with purchased limits, following usage trends, configuring threshold alerts and supporting internal billing activities.
Senior UX Lead · UI/UX 100% · 2025–2026 Internal tool · Individual ownership
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How I work
Four things I am usually hired for
UX architecture Deciding the structure once, so the product scales with new capability instead of against it.
Complex workflow & product design Graduated complexity, asynchronous work made legible, and irreversible actions made understandable before commitment.
Design systems & UX guidelines One documented vocabulary, held across products and across light and dark.
Design leadership Direction, a review practice, mentoring, and cross-functional work with product, engineering and QA.
Design system 27-page UI guideline
One vocabulary, agreed late
Foundations Colour · typography · spacing · elevation
Components Every control, plus the full data table with header, row, empty, loading and filter states
Tokens primary/600 · slate/500 · success/text · danger/bg
The platform grew module by module, with spacing, control heights and states settled per screen. The design system brought them into one modern language, across light and dark. Token names are what engineering references, never the hex.
Wizard with early exit 4 flows
Job scheduling shell 5 flows
Hierarchical drill-down 4 modules
Review-state bulk workflow 2 modules
Guideline pages 27
See it in the flagship case study →
Experience 16+ years
Sixteen years, four companies
Feb 2019 to present
Senior UX Lead Platform 3 Solutions
UX ownership for an enterprise data platform family: the archive platform, the ETL tool that feeds it, and the internal billing and consumption tool.
Oct 2018 to Jan 2019
Senior UI (UX) Developer Onward Technologies
Design reviews and UX recommendations on ongoing application development.
Sep 2017 to Oct 2018
Senior UI/UX Developer Newt Global
UX revamp of IVAPP, a Verizon enterprise application.
May 2010 to Sep 2017
Senior UI (UX) Developer Onward Group of Companies
Responsive, accessible websites and web application interfaces, including Tamil Nadu government projects.
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