# Suraj Vaidya

Suraj Vaidya is a remote worker on Himalayas, Founder & Product Engineer at D' Ark, based in United Kingdom.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@surajvaidya1

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Product Engineer at D’ Ark building a digital business card SaaS platform for UK SMEs across web and mobile.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Authorized to work in | United Kingdom |
| Salary expectations | 60k+ GBP |
| Job categories | UI UX Engineer, Front End Developer |
| Skills | Product Strategy, User Research, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Design Tokens, Component Libraries, Usability Testing, Information Architecture, Accessibility, WCAG 2.1 AA, Web Performance Optimization, Responsive Design, Frontend Development, REST API Integration, UCD |
| Website | https://surajvaidya.com.np |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/Aydiav |

## About

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At D’ Ark, I’m building a digital business card SaaS platform for UK SMEs, owning product strategy, UX, UI, and front-end delivery. I interviewed 15+ UK business owners and used their findings to shape the MVP.

I designed the web and mobile product in Figma and built a 40+ component design system with reusable patterns and semantic colour tokens. I’m developing it with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and React Native across web, iOS, and Android.

At Infomentum, I led the redesign and front-end delivery of baesystems.com, BAE Systems’ global corporate website. Code refactoring, asset optimisation, and Core Web Vitals work cut load times by 35%, and I applied WCAG 2.1 AA standards across builds.

Earlier, at Devfinity / Qkly, I led a mobile-first redesign of a platform used by 1M+ job seekers, increasing engagement by 30%; user research and usability testing increased satisfaction by 25%. Across my roles, I’ve worked from research and prototypes through production, building accessible, responsive interfaces and reusable design systems.
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## Experience

### Founder & Product Engineer (current)

D' Ark. Nov 2025 - Present

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Building D'ARK, a digital business card SaaS platform for UK SMEs, owning product strategy, UX, UI, and front-end delivery. Interviewed 15+ UK business owners and turned findings into personas, customer journeys, and product requirements that shaped the MVP.
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Skills: Figma, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, React-Native, Design-Systems, User-Research, Product-Strategy

### UX/UI Engineer

Infomentum. Jul 2022 - Nov 2025

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Led the redesign and front-end delivery of baesystems.com, BAE Systems' global corporate website, from research and wireframes through to production. Built mobile-first front-end components in JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 on Magnolia CMS, cutting load times by 35%.
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Skills: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Magnolia-CMS, WCAG-2.1-AA, Figma, Design-Systems, Core-Web-Vitals, Salesforce, Oracle, WordPress

### Senior UI/UX Engineer

Devfinity / Qkly. Aug 2020 - Feb 2022

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Led a mobile-first redesign of Qkly, a platform used by 1M+ job seekers, increasing engagement by 30%. Conducted user interviews, created personas and journeys, and ran usability testing that increased user satisfaction by 25%.
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Skills: Figma, Balsamiq, Angular, AngularJS, React, D3.Js, REST-APIs, WordPress, UCD, Double-Diamond

### Senior UI/UX Engineer

Hiup Solutions. Feb 2018 - Jan 2020

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Set the design direction across web and mobile products, establishing consistent navigation, hierarchy, and interaction patterns. Designed and developed mobile-first interfaces with React, Vue, HTML, and CSS, taking concepts from low-fidelity sketches to production.
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Skills: React, Vue.Js, HTML, CSS, Figma, Usability-Testing, Heatmap-Analysis, Adobe-Creative-Suite, API-Integration

### UI Engineer

Leapfrog Technology. Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

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Developed and customised WordPress themes and plugins, taking features from ticket through deployment. Built responsive, cross-browser interfaces in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from design handoffs with pixel-accurate implementation.
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Skills: WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Figma, Balsamiq, Code-Review, Component-Based-Development

### Junior UI Engineer

Sofos Softwares Pvt. Ltd.. Sep 2015 - Dec 2016

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Designed and prototyped landing pages in Photoshop, iterating from senior designer and client feedback. Converted UI designs into responsive, standards-compliant web pages using HTML and CSS.
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Skills: Photoshop, HTML, CSS, WordPress, Joomla, Laravel, Cross-Browser-Testing, Performance-Optimization

## Education

### Coventry University

BSc (Hons), Information Technology. Grade: First Class Honours

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BSc (Hons) Information Technology with First Class Honours.
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## Tech stack

- D3.js
- Bitbucket
- React Native
- Sass
- Tailwind CSS
- Figma
- Adobe XD
- React
- AngularJS
- JavaScript
- HTML5
- WordPress
- TypeScript
- Git
- Balsamiq
- Joomla
- Angular

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