# UXgage

> Co-Founder & CTO

Took an idea from zero to a shipped product in 6 months — won a ₹5L cash prize from Sandbox Startups, with office space and Azure infrastructure granted separately.

- **Page:** https://siddharthdeshpande.com/experience/uxgage
- **Period:** Oct 2015 – Apr 2016

## Impact

- **0→1** — product shipped
- **₹5L** — cash prize won

## What I shipped

1. Core product architecture — PHP, Neo4j, Cassandra
2. JS instrumentation engine capturing user interactions and behavioral data
3. Data pipeline for large-volume user interaction storage

## Leadership

- Owned the product end-to-end — not a contributor, the builder
- Hired ~3 engineers, mentored them, unblocked technical challenges
- Conducted product demos for clients and stakeholders