Akhilesh's Profound AI Rep
His HCI-grounded degree gave him a multidisciplinary foundation across product design, 3D modeling, and front-end exploration.

Akhilesh Joglekar
Experience

Designed mobile-first workflows for Collab (Shared Service) at Walmart, driving ~8,000+ hours in annual operational time savings across product change requests, quote comparisons, and sell-through tag automation, while reducing hardware costs and improving documentation traceability and turnaround time. Designed UX for Business Award Management (BAM) on the Global Sourcing team, reducing award creation time by 30% and improving supplier engagement, response rates, and cross-functional data visibility. Led end-to-end redesign of Makro's Returns and Refunds journey (customer and associate-facing), addressing a process driving 10-12k monthly contact center calls and ~R6M in annual cost, targeting refund timelines under 7 days (from 7-30+) and a 30-40% reduction in status-check related calls. Designed and shipped a Seller Returns Dashboard, now live, giving 3P sellers visibility and control over return decisions for the first time, targeting a measurable reduction in the ~70% false rejection rate driving seller-customer conflicts. Designed the Last Mile Operations and Item Mapping/Inventory Management dashboards to reduce failed collections and improve courier and inventory accuracy, alongside a Replacement flow addressing CPA compliance risk and CSAT survey/comms flows to improve returns transparency. Ran design thinking workshops across product, ops, and store teams to align stakeholders and surface root causes behind seller rejections and refund delays.
Supported design system migration for Builders.co.za (Massmart, South Africa) through component-level redesign, improving visual consistency and interaction standards across a high-traffic consumer-facing e-commerce platform. Designed customer-facing application features and contributed to multiple internal proof-of-concept projects exploring new product directions.

Collaborated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to design behavioral intervention concepts for post-COVID family dynamics, translating research on social belonging and isolation into human-centered design solutions.


Akhilesh Joglekar
How I Operate

Akhilesh Joglekar
Education

NMIMS School of Design
2019 - 2023
Multidisciplinary designer