Resume
16+ years. 14 roles. Montreal.
Experience
Product Design Lead
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.
Founder & Product Design Consultant
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.
Senior Product Designer, Platform & AI
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.
Senior Product Designer
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.
Senior UI/UX Designer
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.
Founding Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
Senior UI/UX Designer
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.
Co-Founder & Product Designer
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.
Senior UI/UX Designer
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.
Senior UI/UX Designer
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.
Lead UX Designer
Led UX across product engagements; mentored designers; partnered with engineering on shipping interfaces.
UX Designer
Mobile and web application design across multiple client engagements; concept through delivery.
Freelance Web Designer
Independent web and marketing design for European clients.
Education
European Humanities University
Institute of Modern Knowledge
Belarus State Economic University
Certifications
Design System Bootcamp
The Gen-AI Survival Guide for Creatives
Generative AI Creation Masterclass
UX Analytics
Design Thinking: The Ultimate Guide
Digital Photography
Awards & Publications
UN World Summit Award — Mobile (Culture & Tourism)
Toptal Design Blog contributor
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)