Shashank Deshpande
Founder of Cubyts
Pune, Maharashtra
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer
2022 - Current
Cubyts is a SaaS platform that helps build resilient and market-ready products by integrating with tools used throughout the ideation to adoption stages of the Product Life Cycle. It identifies and captures actionable gaps and anomalies in real-time.
Managing Partner
2020
Scaling Startups to their next orbit. We help early-stage technology companies grow their business by providing expertise, eco-system & capital.
Chief Design Officer - Asia
2015 - 2019
Responsible for steering design-led innovation at Globant in partnership with Customers, Globers & Partners. Scaled the Globant India operations to 1200 in 4X in 4 years
Co-Founder & President
2008 - 2015
Co-Founded Clarice Technologies in 2008 - a specialized consulting company that focused on providing User Experience Design and Technology Development services to Product Companies. Clarice scaled rapidly to 325+ design & technology experts working with leading global companies in enterprise & consumer segments.
Chief of Technical Staff
2007 - 2008
Technical leadership & management of 140+ usability engineering staff of HFI India
Sr. Manager - User Centered Design
1998 - 2007
Responsible for global usability team at VERITAS that has established a very credible name in span of 6 years. This team of 25+ (consisting of UI designers & visual designers) work as a central resource for design & evaluation of product user-interfaces at various Symantec development locations worldwide.
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.
Founder/Partner
1992 - 1998
Founded & scaled a Multimedia/ UI Design company providing design & execution services for more than five large projects (3 man years+) in the area of instructional & information design on a range of learning topics. Quipus worked with several consulting & product-based/software development organizations like Siemens Information Systems Ltd., CMC, L&T, Mastek, NexGen to evangelize usability & design. Quipus was acqui-hired by Frontier Software (acquired by Veritas Software).
CAD Engineer
1988 - 1989
Mechanical Engineering design for Robotic Systems & Automated Assembly Systems, Establishing CADD Competence Center