Hi, I'm Eshaan

I design products at the intersection of craft, technology, and business.

Portrait of Eshaan Kothari in a workshop context

I'm a product designer trained at USC's Iovine and Young Academy, where design, engineering, and business are taught as one discipline. That hybrid shows up in how I work: I take products from sketch to CAD to manufactured object, and I build the unit economics, brand, and go-to-market alongside the hardware.

Based inLos Angeles
FocusPhysical product design and hardware innovation
CurrentlySenior at the USC Iovine and Young Academy

Experience

Jan 2025 - present

Svelt

Founder & CEO

Took a consumer hardware product from concept to manufacture solo: 2,500+ leads, 270+ preorders, sub-$1 CPC campaigns, 4.4/5 Trustpilot, CBS LA feature.

May 2026: Aug 2026

Digital Avenues

Product Design Intern

Leading design for Tenon, an AI-workflow platform: brand identity, design system, platform UI and component library, plus the marketing site, shipped from Singapore.

Dec 2024: Mar 2025

Sier Technologies

Product Designer

Designed Sier Sidekick, an AI video device mounting on eyewear; cut product volume 20% while packaging all internals, and produced the launch renders and animations.

Aug 2025 - present

ProductSC

VP of Client Services, Board Member

Oversee student teams serving clients including Amazon, Riot Games, Intuit, and Disney; curriculum rebuild lifted retention from 15% to 40% and applications 3x.

Skills & tools

Design

  • Industrial design
  • Product Design
  • UI/UX Design
  • Web Design
  • CMF & DMF
  • Design systems

Engineering

  • Fusion360
  • KeyShot
  • Shapr3D
  • Photo & Video
  • 3D printing
  • Woodworking
  • Metal Fabrication

Strategy

  • Business modeling
  • Go-to-market
  • User research
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Branding and Marketing

Awards & recognition

International Design Awards 2024 - GoldNY Product Design Awards 2024 - SilverUSPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office

In the workshop

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Open for work

Open to part-time product design roles and freelance projects.