Surya Newa

Product Designer + Builder

New York, New York, United States

About

I'm an undergraduate student at NYU studying Product Management with a minor in Integrated Design and Media (IDM). I design and develop digital products that feel magical and I enjoy work that is creative, iterative, and experimental in nature.

Experience

  • Product Consultant at Coinbase
    Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Collaborating with product and engineering to architect AI agents for automated pressure testing and adversarial workflow simulation • Developing multi-agent red-team pipelines to evaluate prompt injection, tool abuse, and model robustness across production systems • Building synthetic user swarms to stress-test onboarding flows, rate limits, and authentication surfaces • Designing continuous AI security validation embedded in CI/CD, enabling automated exploit discovery and mitigation reporting

  • Design and Development Lead at Product Management Club at NYU (NYUPMC)
    Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Leading web redesign, building tooling, and designing merchandise as the technical and design lead for NYU's fastest-growing club

  • Production Team Lead at NYU Stern Entrepreneurial Exchange Group
    Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Unifying EEG’s branding across digital and physical touchpoints by architecting web presence, data infrastructure, and visual identity

  • Engineering Intern at Chipper Cash
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

    • Led development of an ML-powered fraud alert pipeline, cutting manual review time by 60% with automation & anomaly detection • Designed Retool and TypeScript dashboards visualizing Chipper card fraud data, improving auditability across 100+ weekly reviews • Built an internal MCP tool connecting to customer and company databases, enabling non-technical teams to surface account insights • Leveraged Python, TypeScript, Bazel, GCP (Gmail API, Pub/Sub), Docker, Snowflake, & OpenAI API across internal workstreams

  • Product & Marketing Intern at BenchPrep
    May 2025 - Aug 2025 · 4 mos

    • Surveyed & interviewed 10+ enterprise clients to find adoption bottlenecks, translating findings into a prioritized feature roadmap • Designed and developed a HubSpot-integrated and AI-enabled Learning Power Index tool piloted with 50+ educational associations • Built an AI sentiment analysis tool that aggregated learner feedback to boost customer retention by 6%, aligning with KPI metrics • Defined requirements and acceptance criteria for onboarding enhancements, designing A/B tests that lifted user activation by 12%