Resume

16+ years. 14 roles. Montreal.

Experience

Sep 2022 — Present

Product Design Lead

Toptal · Contract · Montreal · Remote

Lead product designer across complex client engagements in healthcare, identity verification, B2B commerce, and enterprise SaaS. Partnered directly with founders, product leaders, engineers, and lean startup teams to redesign existing platforms, define new product directions, build design systems, prototype core interactions, and support implementation across web, mobile, tablet, kiosk, and desktop. Projects included an AI-powered healthcare analytics platform, a full identity-verification platform redesign for fraud analysts, and ProPortals — a white-label B2B eCommerce platform for lumber suppliers.

Jan 2022 — Present

Founder & Product Design Consultant

VV DSGN · Montreal · Hybrid

Own consulting practice. Partner directly with early-stage startups, founders, and product teams on 0→1 B2B SaaS, marketplaces, portals, dashboards, workflow builders, admin tools, and data-viz products. Scope spans product definition, MVP scoping, user flows, interaction patterns, design systems, and implementation support — plus pitch materials, sales demos, product presentations, and design handoff documentation.

Oct 2025 — Mar 2026

Senior Product Designer, Platform & AI

Sprig · Contract · Remote

AI-powered experience-research platform. Six-month transition contract across multiple product pods: designed new reporting and analytics experiences for advanced research insights, improved core workflows, extended the design system with cleaner foundations and new components, helped define the direction for AI-assisted research and study-building experiences. Conducted research, testing, analytics review, and stakeholder discovery to inform design decisions.

May 2023 — Dec 2024

Senior Product Designer

InRule · Contract · Toronto · Remote

Enterprise decision-automation platform — business rules, process automation, decision modeling, no-code forms, AI-assisted automation, and governed runtime deployment. Modernized complex desktop and web experiences, established design-system foundations, redesigned core builder interfaces, and prototyped a next-generation unified platform experience. Work spanned rule-building, process modeling, schema-building, API-related workflows, and legacy product improvements with a distributed European team.

Nov 2021 — Nov 2022

Senior UI/UX Designer

Pendo.io · Contract · Toronto

Pendo's product-analytics and digital-adoption platform. Worked on digital-adoption experiences that helped teams understand and improve how users interact with software. Improved usability across core product workflows, contributed to design-system cleanup and consistency, and prototyped new product directions in close partnership with researchers, PMs, engineers, and cross-functional teams.

Oct 2019 — Aug 2021

Founding Product Designer

Acies · Toronto

Founding designer building a business-intelligence platform for the payments industry from the ground up. Defined the product concept and overall IA, designed user flows, worked closely with founders on roadmap and competitor research, defined branding and visual style, created the design system, and partnered with engineering through implementation. Shipped the BI platform across a ~2-year arc.

Oct 2017 — Oct 2019

Product Designer

Mayven · Agency

Design agency working with venture-backed US startups. Partnered with agency leadership, clients, and engineering teams on client projects — notably Hired (2019 State of Software Engineers Report, 2019 State of Salaries Report) and TaxAct — plus internal project-management tools.

Apr 2016 — Oct 2019

Senior UI/UX Designer

Toptal · Contract

Earlier Toptal engagement. Led design across multiple client projects through the full process — ideation, wireframing, user-story and customer-journey mapping, prototyping, user testing, visual design, and style-guide creation. Notable client work: P2P marketplace for workspaces, BindPlane (IT-operations data-management platform), Vendable Commodities (commodity trading), SelectStar (database monitoring), and a travel risk-management platform across responsive web + mobile.

Oct 2014 — Apr 2018

Co-Founder & Product Designer

MeetnGreetMe · Minsk / Global

Co-founded a peer-to-peer personal-concierge marketplace. Owned product design end-to-end: requirements gathering, competitor research, ideation workshops, design QA, and usability testing. Defined the concept, designed the two-sided marketplace experience, and built core components (onboarding, inbox, notifications) plus the marketing site and investor decks. UN World Summit Award winner — Mobile, 2017.

Feb 2015 — Mar 2016

Senior UI/UX Designer

eVote · Minsk / London

Sole senior designer for a multi-channel voting platform. Designed core concept and flows across iOS, Android, and web; created the visual style across platforms; produced high-fidelity wireframes, screen flows, and specifications. Applied LEAN methodologies in the design workflow.

Mar 2014 — Jan 2015

Senior UI/UX Designer

Strevus

Part of the UX team designing the user experience of the Strevus compliance platform. Created UX guidelines, refreshed the visual design across Strevus applications, and built guidelines plus a form-wizard and templates for converting IRS tax forms into a digital format.

Mar 2013 — Feb 2014

Lead UX Designer

Appetite Soft · Minsk, Belarus

Led UX across product engagements; mentored designers; partnered with engineering on shipping interfaces.

Mar 2012 — Feb 2013

UX Designer

Five Heads · Minsk

Mobile and web application design across multiple client engagements; concept through delivery.

Jan 2009 — Jan 2012

Freelance Web Designer

Self-employed · Minsk

Independent web and marketing design for European clients.

Education

2009 — 2016

European Humanities University

BA — Media & Communication / Visual Studies · Vilnius, Lithuania

2006 — 2008

Institute of Modern Knowledge

BA — Design · Minsk, Belarus

2005 — 2006

Belarus State Economic University

Marketing · Minsk, Belarus

Certifications

Nov 2023

Design System Bootcamp

Maven

Nov 2023

The Gen-AI Survival Guide for Creatives

Maven

Sep 2023

Generative AI Creation Masterclass

Maven

Sep 2017

UX Analytics

Netology

Design Thinking: The Ultimate Guide

Interaction Design Foundation

Jan 2008

Digital Photography

Belarusian Union of Designers

Awards & Publications

2017

UN World Summit Award — Mobile (Culture & Tourism)

MeetnGreetMe

Oct 2016

Toptal Design Blog contributor

Everything You Need to Know about UX Sketching

Skills

End-to-end product design · AI product design · Data-driven design · Design systems · Interaction design · Information architecture · B2B / B2C SaaS · Web · Responsive · Mobile · Cross-platform (iOS, Android, tablet, kiosk, desktop) · Design leadership · Mentorship

User research · Usability testing · Design sprints · Lean startup · Agile · Wireframing · Rapid prototyping · Style guides · User flows · Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma (advanced) · FigJam · Sketch · InVision · Axure · Adobe Creative Suite · Miro · Notion · Jira · Confluence · HTML/CSS · Claude · Cursor · ChatGPT · Blender

Languages

English (professional working) · Russian (native) · Belarusian (native) · Ukrainian (limited working)