Work

I've built digital products used by millions of people across India and South East Asia. Previously worked across femtech, healthtech and edutech domains for the past decade, now in scientific publishing.

Notable experiences

Springer Nature

Product Manager, Author Experience (2024-Present)

Springer Nature is the second largest scientific publisher in the world, founded in 1842 with more than 500K+ articles and books published annually. As the Product Manager for the Author Experience team, I lead a team of 15+ focused on improving the author experience after their manuscript is accepted. My key responsibilities include creating better pathways for authors to get funding, increasing transparency around licensing and rights, as well as in building infrastructure to support article processing cost payments and so on.

Noora Health

Lead Product Manager (2021-2024)

At Noora Health, I led the end-to-end design and successful launch of the Remote Engagement Service (RES), a transformative digital companion app. As Lead Product Manager for RES, I drove product strategy and development to deliver engaging health support for millions of patients and caregivers across India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. My role involved overseeing the product's vision, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring the platform's scalability and relevance in culturally diverse settings.

Design Verse Labs

Co-founder (2020-2021)

Co-founder of Dverse Labs, an healthcare startup involved in preventing the spread of hospital-acquired infections. The IoT device has been instrumental in reducing the risk of infections for 100+ healthcare workers and 3000+ patients everyday across 5 hospitals in South India.

Lead by Design Foundation

Founding Director (2017-2020)

As a director of this educational non-profit, I helped rural children invent for social good. I led various in-person and digital mentorship programmes for rural children to build contextual solutions with technology. More than 2000+ students of age 8-15 drove 12+ social innovations in their communities.

Open source tools and other side quests

943+ contributions in github repositories this year (2025)

AI-powered chess improvement tool
AI writing assistant
Obsidian plugin for draft prioritization
Screen free Youtube note-taking
Open source transcriber for Mac

Awards and recognitions

ADPlist mentorship award — 1000+ mentorship minutes (2021)
Advisory board panellist for Creative Arts and Education — Hundred innovations, Helsinki (2021)

Notable media mentions

Podcasts

Shake up the world podcast (8 episodes with futurists in impact tech, 2020)
Effective practises of design thinking — The Untextbook Project
Design thinking and education — Reinvent Podcast

Video Content

Teaching and mentoring

Mentor and judge at Buildschool and Buildcamps hackathons

Research and publications

Persaud, S., Prakash, S., & Flipsen, B. (2021). Dialogue for design teams: A case study of generative conversations for dealing with diversity. In DS 110: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2021), VIA Design, VIA University in Herning, Denmark. 9th-10th September 2021.
Citation profile: Google Scholar

Books published

Rural design toolkit by Shreyas Prakash, Krishna Thiruvengadam