Founding Design Engineer

Specializing in taking companies from 0→ 1 with ownership of all things visual.

My name is Neel Sarode

I join early stage companies and design & build everything users see.

8 years of experience designing for brands from scratch, specializing in taking a company with 0 to visually competing with others that are 10x their size.

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Skills:

Product UI/UX

Product Front-End Code

Website Design

Website Development

Brand Identity Design

Extras: Documents, print, creative direction

More Work

Freelancing since 2018 with work across 140+ projects

Nickel Garden

Brand Identity

Website Design

Product Design

Mobile App

Luke Infinger Personal Brand

Brand Identity

Website Design

Personal Brand

Braces by Britt

Website Design

Website Development

Personal Brand

Perfect

Brand Identity

Website Design & Development

Personal Brand

Infinite Dodos

Brand Identity

Website Design & Development

Personal Brand

Winter

Website Design

Website Development

Personal Brand

Aavid Wallet

Brand Identity

Exploration

Website Design

Personal Brand

FlareLink

Brand Identity

Website Design

Product Design

Personal Brand

FunnelPortals

Personal

Website

No-Code Development

Personal Brand

Reed's Island

Website Design

Website Development

Personal Brand

Inova

Website Design

Website Development

Personal Brand

Project Kepler

Website Design

Website Development

Personal Brand

Experience

What I've been up to since 2018

2018 → 2020

Lead Designer

Bank Account Builders

Hired as lead designer at the marketing agency Bank Account Builders. Handled delivery of all client projects including sales funnel design and development and necessary branding assets. Handled back and forth communication with clients ensuring successful project delivery.

Client work from the Bank Account Builders era: sales funnel and landing page designs, before-and-after redesigns of two course funnels, and a photo of the team at the agency house in Scottsdale.

2020 → Present

Founder

Conversion Designer (Freelancing)

Begin my own personal freelancing business designing and building sales funnels and websites for clients. I’ve continued freelancing from 2020 till today.

A grid of freelance client work — landing pages and product sites for Luke Infinger, Realply, CleanConnect.ai, Infinite, Lions Not Sheep and Sterling Capital — with a note reading “I’ve freelanced on over 140 projects since 2020”.

2020 → 2022

Founder

Conversion Designer Masterclass (Design Program)

Created a program teaching beginner and intermediate designers how to design and build high-end sales funnels on the platform ClickFunnels through video courses and live trainings. Sold over $270,000 of revenue of the program and taught over 500 students. Owned a Facebook group giving free instructional content with 12k+ members. Created a software called “Template Builder” using Bubble.io that allowed ClickFunnels users to generate prebuilt layout templates from a massive library of templated sections I created.

2021 → 2022

Co-Founder

InterstellarX

Co-founded a marketing and design agency serving Web3 and Crypto projects during the Web3 boom. We employed 5 employees and I oversaw client relations and delivered on all design-related projects for the agency.

2024 → Present

Creative Lead

USDKG

Founding designer for USDKG, a stablecoin whose gold reserves are backed by the Ministry of Finance of Kyrgyzstan. Ideated and created brand from scratch and handled all things visual for the company, including brand creation, website design and development, document and deck design, social media direction and design, and more.

Gold Dollar brand work: the logo and stationery, the “Future of Finance, Fully Backed by Gold” website, and printed technical documents covering the USDKG smart contract design and a competitive comparison against other stablecoins. A note reads “The real challenge was creating a Web3 brand that could compete with institutional banking and finance solutions”.

2024 → Present

Co-Founder & Creative Director

TL;DR

Co-founded TL;DR, a first-of-its kind livestreaming software that generates highlight clips of a Twitch or Kick livestream during the livestream, not after. I handle all things visual and user-focused - including brand creation, website design & development, product direction, feature exploration, product design, front end agentic development, B2B decks and presentations, event design, clothing, and more. Till date we have over 35,000+ installs on our TL;DR Twitch Extension.

The TL;DR product and team: a live gameplay stream centre-frame with the creator dashboard behind it and generated highlight clips either side, plus photos of the booth designed for TwitchCon San Diego and the team at a party hosted with Xbox.

Get in touch

Neel Sarode

Lets work together

I work with early-stage teams as a founding design engineer: full-time, or fractionally. If you’re pre-seed to Series A and need brand, website, product, and shipped front-end from one person, reach out to me by clicking below.