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Anurag Kalra

Product Designer / Engineer

Systems - Driven

Product Designer

Based in New York.

Hi! I'm Anurag, a Product Designer and Software Engineer that works on transforming complex problems into simple solutions.

Currently, I'm a UX Designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut.

About Me

I'm interested in all things AI, Data, and Art. I enjoy being creative, whether that's writing code, photography, or producing music.

Studied Digital Product Design at the Pratt Institute and General Assembly.

I did my B.Sc. in Computer Science from McGill University, where I also completed graduate work in Compiler Design, Graphics, and Machine Learning.

Right now, I'm working as a UX Designer at MoCA CT (Westport, Connecticut), where I am designing and building a modern museum experience that prioritizes accessibility, improves digital experience, and speaks to our guests, patrons and artist community.

Previously, I was a Senior Systems Engineer at Thrivent Financial in the Marketing Technology Group. I also spent time as a Software Engineer II at Blueshift Labs where I worked hands-on with customers like Discovery Streaming, Udacity and Zumper. I began my career as a Software Engineer (Integrations Team) at Lytics, supporting clients like Procter & Gamble, Universal Music Group, and Nestlรฉ. While a student, I interned at CloudOps, Blockchain.com, and TAG Energy Partners.

Projects

Airdonor Philanthropy CRM

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Museum of Contemporary Art

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Skills, Tools and Education

๐ŸŽจ Product Design: Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator

๐Ÿ’ป Front End: NextJS, React

โš™๏ธ Programming Languages: Typescript, Javascript, Go, Rust, Ruby, Java

๐Ÿ“Š Infrastructure and Data: Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Redis, Google Cloud BigTable, AWS Lambda, Heroku, Vercel, Cloudflare

Performance, Monitoring and Analytics: Datadog, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Grafana

AI Tools: ChatGPT 4o, Claude Opus 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Stable Diffusion

๐ŸŽ“ Education:

Pratt Institute - Graduate Certificate in Human-Centered Design, coursework in Visual Design

General Assembly - User Experience Design Intensive

McGill University - B.S. Computer Science. Graduate coursework on topics including Applied Machine Learning, Compiler Design, Computer Graphics, Computer Networks, Realistic Image Synthesis, Rendering Algorithms and Techniques: Ray Tracing, Path Tracing, Monte Carlo Estimators.