Pakistan

Product Design

Front-end

Alchemist Accelerator

University Of Central Punjab

Talha Saleem

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) & Design Lead

Product strategy

Prototyping

User research

React

Figma

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Founding and sole frontend engineer at an AI automation platform (100,000+ users) — own frontend architecture, design system, and aesthetic direction, working directly with the founder on strategy
Built and maintain a 50+ component design system used daily across frontend and backend teams
Led a legacy-to-Next.js/Framer Motion migration, delivering a 15x speed improvement and faster onboarding and AI content generation
Built custom lightweight drag-and-drop and workflow UI primitives in-house, cutting bundle size and enabling tighter AI-agent UX
Helped scale the user base from ~80,000 to 130,000+
Built 10+ AI agent interfaces with human-in-the-loop review for approving content before publishing
Shipped workflow orchestration UIs and executive dashboards across the full marketing stack — Reddit, SEO, LinkedIn, X, Hacker News, GEO, Analytics, Search Console, UGC video, and a Coding Agent

Served as fractional product and engineering lead for early-stage founders across multiple ventures, owning the full arc from interaction design and visual direction to production-ready code across AI-native SaaS, web3 infrastructure, and LLM tooling.

Built and designed frontend systems across SaaS, AI-native, and web3 products with React, TypeScript, Python, and REST/GraphQL, emphasizing interface quality and visual coherence.
Architected LLM integration layers from scratch: prompt pipelines, retrieval flows, and streaming UX.
Cut time-to-prototype from weeks to days by keeping design and implementation in one set of hands.
Shipped AI automation workflows end to end, from inference pipelines to user-facing output interfaces.

Co-founded Grandeur and led product from zero to production owning the platform UI, no-code app builder, insights canvas, and core user flows. Led the team in building a scalable product infrastructure used by thousands of developers worldwide.

Our SDKs support all major hardware platforms, with a dedicated community advocating for us on Hackster.io.

Key highlights: 
- Plug-and-Play SDKs with three-line integration for anything from an Arduino to an industrial PLC
- AI-Native Insights that replace SQL with natural language so users can ask "When will this motor fail?" and get an answer
- No-Code Dashboard builder that connects hardware logic to customer-facing interfaces for instant beta testing.

Talha Saleem🇵🇰

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