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Product designer with 8 years of commercial experience. Have worked with fintech, edtech, AI, as well as supported various startups.

Designed and launched three mobile apps from scratch, and also worked on desktop services, such as AI language models wrapper, blog platform, or online banking systems, with a focus on improving usability and functionality.

Skilled in conducting comprehensive user research, developing prototypes, and managing development teams to ensure high-quality deliverables. Have led projects from concept to implementation, including project management for multidisciplinary teams under 5 people.

Local Burning Man community camp lead — can inspire and manage up to 15 people to build art objects in the middle of nowhere.

Currently in Tbilisi, Georgia.

AXIOne – AI-powered assistant platform for game designers.

A wrapper around LLMs, AXIOne was designed to support the entire game development pipeline — from initial concept to a finished game. Specialized, prompt-engineered AI agents guide users through every stage, ensuring a smooth, continuous workflow and filling in skill gaps across design, writing, and production.

• Led the product from scratch as the sole designer — from discovery phase to high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
• Designed the UX architecture for working with a system of LLM agents, each covering a specific development stage (e.g. narrative, game mechanics, balancing, production).
• Built a navigation and progression system enabling a linear yet flexible flow through development stages, with support for revisiting and refining previous steps.
• Created the UI kit, visual language, and documentation to support future scaling and team handoff.
• Collaborated closely with PMs and engineers to shape features, understand LLM limitations, and design prompt-based interaction patterns.
• Conducted user research with indie game developers to validate core scenarios, identify pain points, and refine the overall flow.

DoIT is an internal blog platform built for the Wildberries IT department to share knowledge, updates, and ideas. I designed an editor for seamless writing and formatting, along with an admin interface for managing posts, comments, and user feedback — all tailored to fit the needs of a fast-paced, tech-driven team.

• Led end-to-end product design for an internal publishing platform used by engineers, analysts, and managers across the IT department.
• Designed an editor with intuitive formatting, seamless draft saving, and rich content support.
• Developed a custom admin panel for post management, comment moderation, and analytics.
• Balanced flexibility and simplicity to accommodate both tech-savvy and non-technical contributors.
• Contributed to the WB design system for consistent UI across the editor and admin tools.
• Closely collaborated with internal stakeholders to capture use cases and iterate on early prototypes.
• Delivered responsive, accessible layouts optimized for both internal desktop use and mobile reading.

TimeToQuest → is a startup making a mobile app for players and masters of tabletop role-playing games.

• Conducted user research (customer development), identifying the key needs of the target audience.
• Developed user scenarios, improving understanding of the user experience.
• Created an MVP of the app from scratch that gained its first 100 users in 1 month.
• Generated a development roadmap, providing structure to the project.
• Managed backlog prioritization, optimizing product development.
• Created the first draft of a brandbook, laying the foundation for stylistic and visual brand unity.

Evil Martians → are a startup consultancy.

• Conducted the initial research for a career tracking product, built personas and UJM.
• Reworked and redesigned the interface of a distant corporate event service (over a thousand participators per event on average).
• Participated in pre-sales, figuring out client's needs and sharing the vision of how they could be reached.

Promsvyazbank — a bank among the top 10 largest financial institutions in Russia.

• Designed a mobile app for corporate clients, starting from a concept to the full launch.
• Created the visual style of the app, ensuring it was appealing to the user.
• Developed the design and functionality of individual features for the desktop version of remote banking, expanding the service's capabilities.

2013−2015: Institute of Business and Design, Faculty of Design and Graphics, Department of Graphic Design (Moscow).

2009−2013: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Economics, majoring in Mathematical Methods in Economics.

2022: "Neural network effects in graphics", Bang Bang Education

2018−2019: "Profession: product designer", Netologia.

2018: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals.

2017: Yandex Design School (online).

2017: "Interface designer: an introduction to the specialty" — MIPT, Contented, Mail.ru Group (via Coursera).