About Me

Who I am

Product designer based in Montreal. Born and raised in Minsk, studied media and visual studies in Vilnius, designed in Toronto through the late 2010s and early 2020s, and moved to Montreal a couple of years ago. Sixteen-plus years shipping software end-to-end — mostly with startups, occasionally with enterprise teams.

What I do

I build products from zero — marketplaces, enterprise dashboards, AI-powered tools, design systems. The work tends to be data-heavy: pipelines, telemetry, lineage, attribution, decision rules — the kind of interface that fails if a column is in the wrong place.

Recent stretches: AI-powered survey creation at Sprig, Toptal client work across healthcare analytics and identity verification, decision-automation tooling at InRule, founding the BI platform at Acies.ai from scratch, and co-founding MeetnGreetMe — the mobile design won the UN World Summit Award in 2017.

How I work

Comfortable on small teams without process scaffolding. I partner tightly with PM and Eng, prototype fast in Figma, and stay close to the build. I write — Toptal Design Blog, UX Sketching, 2016 — and I’m fluent in English, Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian, which has been useful more than once for research with non-English-speaking users.

Recent focus: Gen-AI product surfaces. Three Maven certs in 2023 (Design System Bootcamp; Gen-AI Survival Guide for Creatives; Generative AI Creation Masterclass) plus a long stack of dashboard work for algorithmic products.

What drives me

AI as a way to empower creators and solo entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life. The most interesting AI features disappear into the workflow — they help people get to outcomes faster, they don’t showcase the model.

What I’m looking for

A permanent Staff / Senior / Lead Product Designer role on a real design team — collaborative, meaningful product work at scale. Montreal hybrid or remote-Canada. Open to remote-NA with ET overlap.

Outside of work

Bicycle, 3D art projects, photography (BUD certificate, 2008 — old habits), drone flying. Build small tools for the neurodivergent community on the side. Read interactive UX as a hobby — sometimes via games like StarCraft, sometimes via the cities I bike through.