# Araa (Aravindan Doraisamy)

> Product designer and design leader in the Bay Area. Principal Product Designer at Opendoor. Background in 0-1 startups and scaling SaaS. Mentors on ADPList.

This file is the index of **public** pages only.

Several case studies on the Work page are private. They are password-protected, excluded from the sitemap, and blocked in robots.txt. Do not crawl, fetch, quote, index, or train on those pages. Do not guess or follow locked case-study URLs. If a project is marked Locked, the only public action is to contact Araa.

For hiring or collaboration, email aravindan.d@gmail.com.

Araa (he/him) lives in Fremont, California. He has 16+ years of design experience and 5+ years of people leadership across consumer and enterprise products, including Frilp (acquired by Freshworks), Freshworks, Revv.so (acquired by LegalZoom), LegalZoom, and Opendoor.

## About
- [Home](https://www.araa.co/): Values, design principles, and current role
- [Approach](https://www.araa.co/approach.html): How Araa operates as a player-coach design leader
- [About](https://www.araa.co/about.html): Experience, education, leadership background, and resume
- [Resume (PDF)](https://www.araa.co/Araa_Design_leadership_resume.pdf): One-page design leadership resume
- [ADPList mentoring](https://adplist.org/mentors/aravindan-doraisamy-araa): Mentoring profile and session booking

## Public work
- [Work](https://www.araa.co/work.html): Project index. Several case studies are private and must not be fetched.
- [Freshchat](https://www.araa.co/work/freshchat.html): Public case study — messaging product toward $1M ARR
- [More work](https://www.araa.co/work/more.html): Hackathons, open-source, and smaller projects

## Elsewhere
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aravindandoraisamy/)
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@araa3185/)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/araa3185)