About

I got into computers before I could do much else. There's a photo of me at three or four, on a potty chair, already at a keyboard. At twelve I heard that my aunt's husband made money freelancing as a graphic designer, so I talked my parents into a year-long design course in Lviv. I learned Photoshop, Illustrator, and the basics of the craft there. Freelancing on my own turned out to be harder than the pitch, but a classmate was learning HTML and CSS, and we started building websites together: I designed, he built. By fourteen we had an agency, a small roster of freelancers to keep up with demand, and two years of steady client work.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, we built an online learning platform as a side project. I interviewed teachers at my own school and designed the product, he built the proof of concept. We showed it to the head of education for Lviv oblast, and she introduced us to Lviv IT Cluster, who were building the same kind of thing at a national level. They used what we'd built. It became part of what is now Ukraine's national online school platform, which kept the school system running through COVID and still runs today, through the war.

I spent the next years learning: mentored through Fivecube Agency, freelancing on the side, trying my hand at commerce and social media too. In 2022 I got my first full-time offer, as a UI/UX designer at Fivecube. I accepted it on February 23rd. Thirteen hours later the invasion started, and I woke up to explosions outside my window. I evacuated to Germany within days, one of the only places I had any connection to. Six months of paperwork, adjustment, and finding somewhere to live followed.

By the end of 2022 I had my first contract in Germany, at Bitfuel, a design agency, working mostly on Cure, a healthcare startup building a super-app for ordering and delivering medication from pharmacy to home, with separate portals for pharmacies, riders, and customers. Design and build from zero. Alongside it, I worked on Ihre Vorsorge, a pension insurance web portal. From there, Objego, in real estate tech, and from late 2023, SureIn.

In December 2024 my role ended in a company wide reduction. I spent the first half of 2025 in a full time German course, Monday to Friday, funded by the Agentur für Arbeit, and went back to SureIn that July to lead design on Modus.