Omkar Khadamkar

Design Systems Lead & Design Engineer

I make design systems machine-readable, so AI-generated UI stays on-system: measured, audited, and cheaper per correct screen.

Based Pune, India Working Remote Experience 11+ years Domain Enterprise security UX
01Practice

AI-native design systems

Machine-readable component guidelines, positive-directive specs with exact values, and stylesheets bound to the production token file. Documentation written for two audiences: humans and machines.

Drift verification

Regeneration diffs, activation-versus-capture triage, checksum tripwires. Proving a system still holds after AI touches it, rather than assuming it does.

Systems at scale

Governance, adoption, contribution models, and coaching. The unglamorous half of design systems: getting the thing actually used by people who did not build it.

02Selected work
AI drift — the field notes2026 · Written + built

Five chapters on what AI-generated UI gets wrong against a real design system: the precision-drift taxonomy, the documentation fix, the verification discipline, and a map of six enforcement points where different teams kill drift. Twelve practitioners credited by name. Read →

InteractiveMethod, not internals6 enforcement points
“AI drift, actual size”2026 · Public research

The original finding: AI-generated UI gets roughly 90% right, and the missing 10% is never layout — it is precision. Near-misses that pass a glance and fail an audit. View post →

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Enterprise design systemCurrent · Confidential

I lead the design system for a security platform on a legacy Angular stack — component guidelines, token architecture, adoption, and the AI-generation layer built on top of it. The system itself is under NDA; the method is documented in the field notes, and I am happy to walk through it in conversation.

15 componentsFigma MCP · Code ConnectDesign tokens
Network status visualisationVMware NSX · Patent application

A way to read the health of a virtual network at a glance: an array of interactive status elements that lets infrastructure admins monitor many object-attribute pairs and act on them without leaving the view. Filed by VMware as a US patent application and published January 2025. I am the first-named inventor. View the filing →

First-named inventorUS 2025/0036264Pending, not granted
03Experience
YearsOrganisationRole & focus
2022 —Skyhigh SecurityDesign Architect · Staff UX Designer. Enterprise design system across SSE, ZTNA/Private Access, Cloud Firewall and reporting. AI-native documentation and drift verification.
2020 – 2022VMwareUX Designer. NSX networking and security. First-named inventor on VMware’s filed patent application for network status visualisation (US 2025/0036264).
2020FactSetSr. UX Specialist. Visual design guidelines across the product portfolio.
2019 – 2020ValuelabsSr. UX Designer. Enterprise workflows and component libraries. Design for Social Innovation award, UX Design India.
2013 – 2016Future GroupAssistant Design Manager. Guideline systems for manufacturers and buyers.
04Education
2023 – 2024UT Austin, McCombs School of BusinessPost Graduate Program, AI & Machine Learning
2016 – 2018National Institute of DesignMaster of Design
2009 – 2013National Institute of Fashion TechnologyBachelor of Design

Currently open to conversations

Design systems, AI-native documentation, and the seam where generated UI meets a real system. Remote roles and consulting both.