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Principal Product Engineer

Varun
Suryawanshi

I design and build the interfaces behind complex automation, from research to release.

Leading automation UI at Infinx

4:30 pm

Selected work

Personal · App Store + notarized Mac app

VPass

A password manager and authenticator for iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro and Mac. No accounts, no servers, no analytics. Built in five days.

  • Credentials live in iCloud Keychain, synced by Apple and unlocked with Face ID or Touch ID.
  • Built-in 2FA codes: scan a QR code from a photo, or draw a box around one on your Mac's screen.
  • A native Mac app with menu-bar search, auto-lock, and copies that clear themselves after 40 seconds.
  • Automatic encrypted backups: AES-GCM with a key derived from your backup password.

Swift 6 · SwiftUI · Keychain · CryptoKit · Sparkle

Read the case study →App Store ↗Mac app ↗Source ↗

VPass showing a saved bank login with a live 2FA code counting downVPass vault on iPhone, credentials grouped under Personal, Work, Finance and Servers

  • Family business · live

    Suryawanshi Tours & Travels

    Website for my family's travel agency in Shimla: guides to eight Himachal destinations, tour packages, a trip-planning form and WhatsApp enquiries.

    Next.js · Vercel

    suryawanshitravels.com ↗

Plus 13 years of client apps, internal tools and prototypes that never went public. And this site: how the room was built →

6:15 pm

13 years,
4 chapters

NowPrincipal Product Engineer at Infinx · Bengaluru, hybrid

  1. 2013to 2016

    Learning the craft

    Joined SapientNitro as a trainee and grew into an Associate Technology L2, building Java and web applications for clients.

    • SapientNitroTrainee → Associate Technology L22013 – 2016 · Bengaluru

  2. 2016to 2019

    Going mobile

    Moved into mobile and front-end work: hybrid apps with PhoneGap and Cordova, and consumer-facing front ends.

    • SapientRazorfishSenior Developer, Mobile Solutions2016 – 2018
    • WoocationSenior Developer2017 – 2018 · Mohali
    • Alpha NetSenior Mobile Developer2018 – 2019 · Mohali

  3. 2019to 2021

    Leading teams

    Stepped into engineering management at DeepPulse and WITSY, an AI sales-intelligence startup, running teams from planning to release.

    • DeepPulseEngineering Manager2019 – 2020 · Chandigarh
    • WITSYEngineering Manager2019 – 2021 · Chandigarh

  4. 2021to now

    Product engineering

    Five years and three titles at Infinx. The work sits where UI/UX, front-end architecture and automation meet, and runs from early research to shipped product.

    • InfinxSenior Product Engineer2021 – 2023
    • InfinxLead Product Engineer2023 – 2026
    • InfinxPrincipal Product Engineer2026 – now · Bengaluru

7:40 pm

About

I've spent thirteen years turning complicated workflows into software people are happy to use. Today I'm a Principal Product Engineer at Infinx, leading automation products in healthcare from the first research question to the release.

I started as a Java trainee at SapientNitro, moved into hybrid mobile apps, managed engineering teams at WITSY and DeepPulse, and for the last five years have been building product at Infinx, where UI/UX, front-end architecture and automation meet. On the side I ship my own products: VPass is live on the App Store, and I built the website for my family's travel business in Shimla.

“In product engineering, chaos may bring movement, but calm brings direction.”

Front end
React · Next.js · JavaScript · HTML & CSS · Material UI · Base Web · UX
Desktop & browser
Electron · Tauri · Chrome Extensions
Automation
RPA · Attended & unattended bots · Python
Back end
Node.js · Spring Boot · Java
Apple
Swift · SwiftUI · Keychain

Passed LinkedIn skill assessments in JavaScript, React, Node.js, CSS, HTML, Front-end development.

NIT Hamirpur, 2009 – 2013 · Based in Chandigarh, India

9:10 pm

Notes

  • Calm is a skill

    Corporate culture often celebrates chaos: the hustle, the urgency, the always-on mindset. People who look busy get called high performers, while those who stay calm under pressure are sometimes seen as disengaged.

    But calm is where clarity lives. It's where good design, sound decisions and thoughtful leadership are born. In product engineering, chaos may bring movement, but calm brings direction.

    First posted on LinkedIn

  • Chart crimes are trust bugs

    The recent chart crimes from two big AI labs struck a chord: flipped bar heights, misleading scales. They aren't just design blunders; they're a symptom of putting hype ahead of clarity.

    We build dashboards and visualisations to help people make decisions. Bend a chart to tell the story you want instead of the truth, and you betray the user's trust. Charts should be honest before they're pretty.

    First posted on LinkedIn

  • Don't teach your Copilot your secrets

    That mini heart-attack moment when Copilot autocompletes an API key, and it turns out to be your own, lifted from the .env file.

    AI is amazing at saving keystrokes, until it reminds you it's watching a little too closely. Convenience isn't safety: keep secrets in environment variables, rotate keys often, and be careful what your tools can read.

    First posted on LinkedIn

10:05 pm

Let’s talk.

I'm not looking for a new role right now, but I'm always happy to talk about product engineering, UI architecture and automation, or to compare notes on building calm software.