Akin

I'm a Senior Product Designer and Design Engineer based in London, UK, with 7+ years designing end-to-end digital products across fintech, B2B SaaS, and AI platforms, with deep roots in emerging markets.

Product Designer and Design Engineer

London, UKCET (GMT +1)AVAILABLE

I've taken four products from zero to shipped: Onit, a digital bank at Shara. A microfinance bank at Advancly. BaseOne at Venture Garden Group. Spectra, a DeFi app for batch token transfers on Ethereum. Design systems, merchant apps, field apps, CRMs, all the pieces regulated finance actually needs to run. Hubtal got me into AI products, I designed the conversational interface and the trust patterns for a legal platform. I've also worked in healthtech, e-commerce, transport, real estate, and emerging tech. Different industries, but I'm usually doing the same thing: figuring out what's broken and fixing it. These days I design in Figma and build in Claude Code myself. No handoff, no waiting around. What I draw is what ships, motion included.

7+ years of experience running successful design practices across startups & enterprises

  • SmartpuppysSenior Product Designer & Design Engineer2025 → Now
  • SharaSenior Product Desginer2024 → 2025
  • AdvanclyLead product Designer2022 → 2024
  • Venture Garden GroupProduct Designer2021 → 2022
  • Go2solveProduct Desginer2020 → 2021
  • Venture Garden GroupVisual & User Experience Design Intern2019 → 2020