Vladislav Kalashnikov
Senior Product Designer focused on fintech, mobile products, and B2B SaaS
Work experience
Salmon Senior Product Designer
Sep 2026 — Present
Philippine fintech building a digital bank. Designing growth flows for Salmon’s promoter referral program
Re:Luna Senior Product Designer
Feb 2024 — Jun 2026
Solo product designer at a UAE wealth management fintech, covering a B2B platform and B2C iOS app
- Designed core flows for portfolios, orders, transactions, accounts, subscriptions, and investment strategies
- Built and maintained the design system together with engineering across web and mobile products
- Later led another product designer and collaborated closely with product, engineering, and QA
MTS Senior Product Designer
Feb 2023 — Jan 2024
Built MTS’s accessibility direction from 0 to 1 across its global design system for web, iOS, and Android
- Defined requirements for 80+ components across screen readers, Dynamic Type, touch targets, and contrast
- Integrated accessibility standards with designers and developers across components and key product flows
- Audited 5 digital products and wrote 6 internal articles with practical guidance for product teams
Pinkman Design Studio Product Designer
May 2020 — Jan 2023
Worked at Pinkman, one of Russia’s leading design studios, across several product projects
VTB — public banking website redesign
- Led a team of 4 designers, hired and onboarded 2, and set up planning and design review processes
- Redesigned mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, calculators, and key banking user flows
RuStore — VK’s Android app marketplace
- Designed paid app purchase flows, payment method management, and payment integrations
- Worked on app verification, antivirus checks, and security scenarios to improve trust in the marketplace
Additional experience
Building
Developing Clast my iOS personal finance app with AI-assisted input, budgeting, analytics, and screenshot imports; 2nd place and top-5 + Audience Choice at TON hackathons
Community
Run Design Mind, a design and career Telegram channel with 2,500+ subscribers, write articles with 30,000+ total views, and give talks on product design, career, and practical AI use
Mentoring
Reviewed 200+ student projects at Yandex Practicum and contributed 3 lessons to the Web Designer course
Skills
- Product Design
- Product thinking · UX/UI · User flows · Prototyping · Mobile · B2B SaaS · Data-heavy interfaces
- Research
- User interviews · Usability testing · Competitor research · Product analytics · JTBD
- Design Systems
- Component architecture · Design tokens · Design-dev handoff
- AI & Dev Tools
- AI-assisted product development · Claude Code · Codex · Xcode · GitHub
Languages
RU — Native, ENG — Upper Intermediate