Ambitious Labs

Building the #1 app idea accelerator in the world.

- Raised mid 6-figure angel round
- 7-figure annual revenue 
- Built a high performing enrollments department 
- 4.9 star google reviews
- Developed cutting edge ai powered learning platform

Founder + CEO

Closercademy

CEO, Founder

University of California, Berkeley

Guest lecturer for the Product Launch class under the Sutardja center for entrepreneurship & technology.

Teaching full-stack no-code AI development to business students interested in launching app startups.

Guest Lecturer

FlutterFlow

Championing the FlutterFlow product for the USA market.

Content Creator & Ambassador

First Check Ventures

- Syndicate member of First Check Ventures. I write $2k-$5k checks to a handful of promising companies every year. 

- Invested in Everything Green Organics, a farm to table startup out of Windsor, California.

Angel Investor

Yummy 

Venezuela’s super app. Doordash + Uber. Invested very early alongside FCV syndicate.

Angel Investor via First Check Ventures

PrizePicks

- #1 App for Sports in the iOS App Store
- #1 Daily Fantasy Sports App in the Country 2022
- Senior Mobile Engineer owning CI/CD, release management and user acquisition engineering

Head of Mobile & Growth Engineering

- Lead product engineering of top a 10 Sports App in iOS App Store
- Day to day: React, CapacitorJS, Swift/Java, Growth Marketing, App Analytics, AdTech, Product Marketing, Re-engagement
- Achieved industry leading engagement rates by developing new features against KPI goals. (CAC, virality co-efficient, etc) 
- Built a world class marketing tech stack in close collaboration with Marketing and Data Science.

Head Mobile Engineer

Season Share

Co founded and led product and engineering. Worked closely with VPs at major league teams to earn buy in for our products. Responsible for deploying 50+ products in market generating 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for our partners. Architected a distributed system capable of supporting 500k MAUs & high traffic on-sale windows.

Co-founder + CTO 

Hourglass Education Technology Solutions, LLC

Worked on cutting edge institutional education software. Mentored on ReactJS best practices. Individual contributor in a disciplined agile/scrum environment.

Senior Mobile App Engineer (React Native) 

San Jose State University

Instructional Assistant 

Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

Alim Charaniya

Ambitious App

- Achieved a 35% retention rate and added 200+ new users to the app by designing and executing a
comprehensive research plan to analyze the needs and preferences of the target audience.
- Acquired 60+ new users by evaluating research statistics and presenting them to multiple stakeholders (product owner, content designers, marketers and engineers) that created a viral TikTok video.
- Improved and enhanced the content and design of the mobile application by conducting user interviews, card sorting, and user testing with 20 end users on the existing features.

Community Manager and Researcher

Chords Music App

https://www.chordsmusic.app/

- Developed chords choir’s console for local musicians to manage and upload their songs by working
with other front and back-end developers.
- Designed the administrative control for the website to accept or reject the songs uploaded by the artists.
- Analyzed the functionality requirements from the product owner to develop a strategy for the design.

Product Designer

FoodCourt Inc

- Moderated user interviews and multiple rounds of usability testing that enabled us to identify the pain points of customers with the reviews flow in a B2B industry, that led us in shortening the review process which our users found lengthy and time consuming earlier.
- Applied the lean UX framework and created a design strategy that facilitated continuous feedback from our users which in turn allowed us to quickly iterate on the flow.
- Designed an interactive prototype on Figma that encompassed the design system, accessibility, style guide, color selection, visual hierarchy, and screen animations.

UX Designer

University of Mississippi

- Performed weekly analysis of data through Microsoft Excel to iterate on the experiments.
- Created and designed a research plan to effectively run experiments, which resulted in completion of the research 2 weeks before the deadline.
- Collaborated with my lab manager and other employees in the team on a weekly basis to share our research insights and identify how we can improve the research plan to reach our goal.

Research Assistant 

- Increased overall student satisfaction scores by 45% by designing session materials tailored to their
needs.
- Achieved a significant 40% improvement in overall course grades by collaborating with course instructors and fellow Supplemental Instruction (SI) leaders to identify and address students' pain points.
- Boosted SI session attendance by approximately 25% in the middle of the semester through proactive collaboration with SI leaders from other courses and implementing targeted outreach campaigns.

Supplemental Instructor

Hi, I'm Himani Patel, a passionate product designer who loves taking on challenging business and user problems. I have had the pleasure of collaborating with numerous startups as a freelance or contract-based designer throughout my career. Additionally, I have designed websites for small e-commerce businesses, assisting them in expanding their reach and increasing their revenue. Every project I have contributed to has provided me with invaluable learnings

My primary focus as a designer is on providing businesses with research-based solutions and high-quality design to drive revenue growth. I believe in thoroughly understanding a company's objectives and tailoring my approach to meet their specific needs. 

You can check my work over here: https://www.patelhimani.com/

If you have any inquiries or would like to collaborate on a project, feel free to reach out to me at himanip570@gmail.com. I would be delighted to hear from you and will respond as soon as possible. Thank you so much!


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 Research  | Information Architecture | Figma | Wireframe | Prototyping | Usability testing | Agile | Communication | Presentation | Collaboration | Time management | HTML and CSS | scrum | Figma | 
Miro | Trello | Sketch | Adobe Illustrator

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