Kirill Gurianov

Role: Product Designer and Design Engineer

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia (Open to Remote)

GitHub: github.com/krl-gr LinkedIn: kirill-gurianov Telegram: @kirillgurianov

Summary

Product designer with 7+ years of experience in complex, data-heavy B2B interfaces and design systems, including a design system for a company with 40+ products. Since 2024 I also build what I design, with React, Next.js, TypeScript and coding agents. In 2026 I released Up.computer, an open-source desktop app for running coding agents side by side.

Experience

Independent Product Designer & Engineer

Up.computer, Wande, The UI Codex | 2024 - Present

Designed and built Up.computer, an open-source desktop app for orchestrating coding agents, on a fork of T3 Code: 71 GitHub stars in the first 24 hours, a task-based orchestration model with agents that hand work to each other, and a benchmark against T3 Code showing equal quality with 37% fewer tokens.
Designed and built Wande, a personal task tracker, end to end: research, interface, code, and a database migration between providers.
Ran The UI Codex, a React prototyping course for designers, then turned it into a product research project with instrumented experiments in PostHog and Search Console.

Design Consultant

Megapolis-IT | 2023 - 2024

Stayed on remotely after leaving the staff role: reviewed the design team's work and advised on the design system and new product interfaces.

Lead Product Designer - Design Systems

Megapolis-IT | Aug 2022 - Mar 2023

Designed and maintained a design system for an urban infrastructure company with 40+ products.
Audited legacy libraries, removed duplicates, and improved system structure using Figma Variables, design tokens, Auto Layout, and Variants.
Led the migration of 6 key products to the new design system with a team of about five designers, with no drop in engineering velocity; the design team took on twice as many projects without adding headcount.
Defined foundational UI rules and wrote usage guidelines for designers and developers to improve consistency, accessibility, and system adoption.

Senior Product Designer

Megapolis-IT | May 2020 - Aug 2022

Led the design of two data-heavy B2B platforms from concept to the company's flagship products: a traffic scheme editor and the traffic management system for a city of 13 million.
Designed the editor's core interaction model and drawing mechanics after interviewing 30 traffic engineers; new engineers went from 4 to 5 weeks of training in AutoCAD to 3 to 5 days.
The editor's data became a street data source for Yandex Navigator.
Initiated the company's design system in 2021 and started moving products onto it.

UX/UI Designer

TheBestApp | Oct 2018 - May 2020

Designed 10+ B2C native mobile applications for iOS and Android, including an e-commerce retail platform, a scooter-sharing service, and a real estate classified app.
Created a corporate mobile application for an international metallurgical company (NLMK).
Ran usability tests and user interviews before development to catch problems early.
Built and maintained UI kits for iOS and Android, keeping the platforms visually consistent and speeding up feature development after the MVP.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture - Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNGASU) | 2013 - 2018
Architecture Internship (1 year) - Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG), France | 2017

Core Skills

Product Design: User Flows, Wireframing, UX Research, Usability Testing, Mobile (iOS/Android) and Web UI, Accessibility (WCAG).
Design Systems: Design Tokens, Variables, Component Properties, Auditing, Documentation, Cross-team Governance.
Tools & Tech: Figma, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, HTML, CSS, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Storybook, Convex, Supabase, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Miro.

Languages

Russian: Native
English: professional working proficiency, fluent in writing and technical reading.