Kostya Zudov
Product designer who builds AI processes, agents and tools
Product designer and design lead with 9+ years in fintech, HR-tech and e-mobility. My strongest side is building AI processes for teams: multi-agent systems, in-house tools and automation that take routine out of design and development. I'm not a classic software engineer — I design the system and bring it to a working tool myself, with AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor.
about
- location
- Saint Petersburg, Russia. Work permits for Russia and Argentina; open to relocation and business trips.
- format
- Full-time, part-time or project work; remote, on-site or hybrid.
- languages
- Russian (native), English (B1, intermediate), Spanish (A1, beginner)
experience
Sep — Oct 2026
Product Designer & Front-end Developer · INOSAGO (project for an insurance agency, NDA)
Car-insurance (OSAGO) service: customer site, employee and agent workspace, manager and admin consoles.
- Designed every role at 1440 and 390: 76 + 76 screens and a 147-component library.
- Built the front end in six weeks: Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind 4 — 54 pages, 174 components, 698 commits.
- One form instead of a seven-step wizard, prices of three insurers in one calculation, and a dedicated screen for every failure.
Apr — Sep 2026
Product Designer & Engineer, AI design pipeline · Konsol
Trial project: a multi-agent system that turns product managers' PRDs into screens built from the company design system, without designers.
- Created the design methodology and the agent pipeline: an intake agent that turns the PRD into tasks and asks the product manager about gaps instead of guessing, designer agents, reviewer agents, and a mismatch log the system learns from.
- Built 3 products and 320+ screens with the pipeline, including pilot products rebuilt from Lovable to reduce their technical debt.
- Good results in the lab; in production the process proved too heavy for product managers mid-release, and the company chose not to continue the research. The owner was happy with the work.
2024 — May 2026
Design Lead, HR-tech · AlfaStrakhovanie (via Intelsy)
Internal ecosystem of a major insurance company: org structure, business trips, bonuses, payroll and corporate healthcare.
- Made prototyping 3× faster by bringing AI tools (Figma Make) into the daily workflow and streamlining approvals.
- Launched the key HR modules and set up a smooth handoff between design and engineering.
- Built the design system with tokens and semantic versioning rules for components.
2023 — May 2026
Creative Director / DesignOps · Intelsy
Head of the design department at an IT integrator, internal and client products.
- Shipped 3 internal AI services: Neurogoose, a multi-agent estimator for incoming projects; hiring and assessment automation; and social media automation.
- Neurogoose: agents break a request into tasks and ask clarifying questions, a parametric model prices it by the rates an administrator sets. Ten complex estimates a month went from about 300 to about 60 hours of senior time (about 840,000 ₽ of payroll a month); Intelsy kept using it after I left.
- Grew the design department’s profitability by 11% a year and made delivery dates more predictable.
- Hired and grew designers, introduced handoff rules, regular critiques and quality control.
2023 — 2024
Design Lead, B2B fintech · Moscow Exchange (via Intelsy)
Bookbuilder — a professional platform for collecting orders and allocating securities in placements.
- Rebuilt the requirements from scratch through stakeholder interviews — there was no documentation — and aligned them with business, IT and compliance.
- Designed roles, permissions and edge cases; shortened approvals with clear internal rules.
2022 — 2023
Senior Product Designer, e-mobility · Wize (UAE)
Battery-swapping ecosystem for commercial electric vehicles in Dubai: a driver app and a battery monitoring platform.
- Designed 50+ back-office screens (telemetry, incidents, analytics) and 15 app screens.
- Built the product design system and one interface standard for the whole ecosystem.
2021 — 2022
Senior Product Designer, social tech · Overclout (Thailand)
Gamified social network for the Thai market, built on Flutter.
- Designed feeds, profiles and game mechanics, localized for Thai users and cross-platform constraints.
2019 — 2021
Art Director · Newmen
Digital projects for agency clients.
2017 — 2019
Art Director · STEM
Visual identities for corporate events.
education
- Ural State University of Architecture and Art, Design (2008)
- Executive MBA in organizational management, Simbirsk-LINK (2024)
- Innovation through Design, The University of Sydney on Coursera (2024)
- Introduction to TRIZ, Sergey Gorpinenko (2024)
- Google UX Design certificate courses on Coursera (2023)
tools
- Figma, Framer, Pixso, Spline, Webflow
- Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Bolt.new, Lovable
- LLMs, prompt engineering, multi-agent systems, ComfyUI, Node
- UX research, usability testing, MVPs, Agile