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Adarsh Panikkar, Product designer who builds for fun

Hello! I'm Adarsh, a product designer born in India and now living in Dubai. I like building the things I design.
I spent three years at Juno, going from designer to leading the design team, then co-founded Kitt and spent two years as CPO, taking it from zero to AED 1.5M in bookings.
I'm now looking for my next role, so if you think we'd be a match, here's what I'm looking for.
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Kitt

Co-Founder & CPO · 2024–2026
Kitt is a corporate travel platform for companies in the GCC. I co-founded it and led product, design and engineering with a team of four.
We built booking for flights, hotels and cars from scratch in about nine months, raised a SAFE round, and grew to five corporate clients and AED 1.5M in bookings.

Building the AI travel agent at Kitt

An AI agent that booked flights, hotels and cars on production infrastructure, shipped in beta by a four-person team.
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Transactions and insights at Kitt

One booking ledger for accounting, spend and compliance.
Kitt Transactions
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Building blocks

A collection of brand identities and logos designed over the years, across startups and side projects.
Brand & Logos
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Juno

Lead Product Designer · 2021–2024
Juno was a US neobank: an FDIC-insured USD account with a crypto wallet on top. I joined as a product designer and was promoted twice, to leading the design team.
I designed the Juno Store, which gave three years of unspent JCOIN somewhere to go, and led design on the B2B expansion into Transak, coin swaps and bill pay.

Building the Juno Store

JCOIN went tradeable with three years of it sitting unspent. The Juno Store turned the burn into cashback boosts, gift cards and hardware wallets.
Juno Store
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Side projects

Design and build · Ongoing
Small products I make on my own, start to finish, from the first sketch to the App Store.
Hush is live on the App Store. Trace is in closed beta.

Hush

A focus app that hides distracting apps rather than blocking them, and starts a session when you tap your phone to a physical NFC tag.
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Trace

Currently building
A budgeting app for the UAE that logs your spending from bank SMS, decides what is actually a transaction, and remembers every correction you make so you only make it once.
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Transactions and insights at Kitt

One booking ledger for accounting, spend and compliance.

Every booking became an accounting record at confirmation. Accountants could read the individual transactions; CFOs could see the same records grouped into spend and compliance insights.

One ledger, two altitudesA confirmed booking becomes a single transaction record, coded at booking rather than reconstructed at month end. That same record set is read two ways: accountants work at row level, CFOs work at pattern level. Every grouped number drills back down to the rows that produced it, until it lands on one booking and its receipt.Booking confirmedpolicy checked, approval loggedOne transaction recordcoded at booking, not reconstructed at month endAccountantreads one row at a timeCFOreads it groupedevery grouped number opens its rowsdown to one booking and its receipt

Booking details

Each trip carried its traveller, cost centre, payment and receipt from the start.

A table accountants trust

Fixed columns, complete rows and a CSV export that matched the table exactly.

The same records, as totals

Spend by type, cost centre and month, with a path back to each booking.

Compliance without policing

Actual spend sat beside optimal spend. Policy gaps were shown by rule and amount.

Leakage

Cancellation and modification penalties had their own view, broken down by cause and linked to the bookings behind them.