Shubhangi Hingu builds interfaces — and used to build the APIs behind them.
UI/UX designer with three years as a full-stack developer first. That order matters: every design here already knows what's feasible to build, because I used to be the one building it.
Why the switch, and why it works
Across every development role, the parts I enjoyed most — and got the best feedback on — were the UI decisions, the user flows, the interface polish. Not the backend logic underneath them.
So I made it structural: completed hands-on UI/UX training in research, wireframing, prototyping and visual design, and built three end-to-end Figma case studies from scratch. The dev years didn't disappear — they became the advantage. Designs get handed off with fewer feasibility surprises, faster developer buy-in, and a shorter distance between Figma and production.
design
front-end foundations
Three case studies, three different systems
Each one built end to end in Figma — a full component library, not just screens.
Tunify — music streaming app
- Full end-to-end flow: onboarding, login/sign-up, profile, home, now-playing, explore and library screens
- Built a reusable design system — components, palette, typography — for consistency across every screen
- Extending into frontend development, with planned API integration for playback, playlists and accounts
MAIN Insights — HR management dashboard
- Headcount, attrition rate, open roles and average tenure, each with trend indicators
- Data visualization set: weekly attendance bar chart, department distribution donut, pending-approvals panel
- Employees screen with search, multi-filter controls and a structured table with status badges
MainOps — startup scale platform
- Dark-themed landing hero for a DevOps/SRE brand with a live time-zone widget and build-test-deploy tracker
- Client case-study page communicating impact through bold metric callouts — 100K+ users, 3.2x faster releases, 99.9% uptime
- Custom growth-trend chart visualizing the startup's scaling journey with an annotated data point
UI/UX training
- —Structured, hands-on training across the full product design process — research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design
- —Coursework in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to strengthen design-to-development handoff
- —Applying the development background to designs that are user-centered and technically feasible
Three years building what designers hand off to
The foundation the design work stands on.
- Designed and developed Flask-based RESTful APIs for internal HR management tools, reducing manual data entry through standardized backend workflows
- Worked closely with UI requirements to implement role-based views and access control (Flask-Login, JWT) across multi-role environments
- Automated data pipelines with Pandas and Celery, and optimized PostgreSQL queries for dashboard and reporting modules
- Built scalable RESTful APIs (Express.js, Node.js) supporting microservices across multiple product lines
- Collaborated closely with frontend developers on API contracts and UI-driven requirements, reducing integration bugs and accelerating sprint delivery
- Delivered end-to-end features including authentication flows, payment gateway integration and file upload services
Education & other builds
- —Sentiment Analysis API — FastAPI + HuggingFace Transformers, real-time text scoring, deployed on Render
- —Employee Management System — Flask + PostgreSQL, CRUD APIs, role management, deployed on Ubuntu/Nginx with SSL