# Anika Mantripragada

**Product Design Intern** — San Francisco, CA, United States

> Product designer and engineer building AI-native experiences. Currently at Sauce Labs redesigning design systems for agent-readability.

Career Archetype: **Studio Trailblazer** (OB-MG) — One of the first Studio Trailblazers on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anikamantri
- anikamantri.com: http://anikamantri.com/

## Experience

### Campus Leader @ USC, Figma (2026-08 – present)
Los Angeles, California, United States

### Product Design Intern, Sauce Labs (2026-05 – 2026-08)
San Francisco, California, United States · Rebuilt a legacy design system into an AI-legible library by restructuring design tokens and usage patterns into machine-readable documentation. Built a 24-test evaluation framework across 6 bidirectional Figma ↔ code workflows, achieving 100% mapping accuracy and uncovering gaps in existing mappings and docs.

### Co-Head of Design, TroyLabs (2025-09 – present)
Los Angeles, California, United States · Leading the TroyLabs accelerator’s design curriculum and socials

### Director of Founder's Education, SEP at USC (2025-09 – 2026-05)
Los Angeles, California, United States · Kairo, a motion tracking software providing collegiate-level coaches and athletes with real-time performance analytics

### Product Design Intern, TRIPP, Inc. (2025-05 – 2025-08)
Los Angeles, CA · Designed and shipped a mixed-reality feature for TRIPP's AI-powered VR wellness app to increase user retention. Collaborated with engineering to prototype, implement, and ship the final experience in Unity.

### Research Intern, Stanford University (2023-05 – 2023-08)
Palo Alto, CA · Kundaje Lab

### Research Fellow, UC Irvine (2022-06 – 2022-09)
Irvine, CA · Akbari Lab

## Education

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation, USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy (2024-09 – 2028-06)
GPA: 3.85/4.0, Presidential Scholar (Half-Tuition Merit Scholarship), Top 5% of Class

### The Harker School (2020-08 – 2024-05)
Activities and societies: Medical Club, Varsity Lacrosse, Women in STEM, TALON Yearbook, Harker Aquila

## Projects

### Cue
Context-aware app that turns saved social content into real-world actions using multimodal AI · Designed and built an app that extracts intent from social posts using multimodal AI and surfaces them contextually based on location, calendar, and deadline. Engineered the end-to-end pipeline from social post ingestion to contextual surfacing using GPT API, Google Places API, FFmpeg, and Claude Code.

### Kairo
Computer vision platform delivering real-time athletic performance metrics · Co-founded and designed a computer vision platform for real-time athletic performance tracking. Recruited 6 collegiate diving teams to pilot the software and participated in USC's 10-week incubator.

### Mobius
AI-powered 3D math platform pairing natural-language explanations with interactive visualizations · Designed and developed the interface for an AI-powered platform that explains complex 3D mathematical concepts through natural language paired with interactive visualizations of surfaces.

## Skills

UIUX Design, Figma (Software), Product Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, UX Research, Rapid Prototyping, Visual Design, Claude Code, Cursor, Framer, Blender, Adobe Creative Cloud, Unity, React, shadcn, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, XCode, Python, C#

## Credentials

- **Figma for Education Summer Camp 2026** — Figma (issued 2026-08)
- **Dissecting the cis-regulatory syntax of transcription initiation with deep learning** (issued 2024-05)

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