Years: 2024 — present
Yandex is a Russian technology company and one of the largest IT corporations in Europe. Today it develops a wide range of products and services. I work at Yandex Cloud and Infrastructure.
Building an ML Platform from Scratch
Role:
Senior Product Designer (sole designer)
Duration:
9 months → working MVP
Context
Created a unified ML platform to replace fragmented tools across teams and accelerate model development. NDA
Key Contributions
1. Research & Strategy
— Analyzed 6+ competing solutions (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Weights & Biases, etc.)
— Defined key user scenarios for ML engineers, data scientists, and managers
2. Architecture
— Designed scalable navigation system:
• Functional grouping
• Expandable architecture for future modules
— Aligned technical constraints with development team
3. Implementation
— Interactive Figma prototypes to demonstrate platform value to executives and users
— Well-structured Figma files for efficient developer handoff
— Gradual team adoption as key success metric
Results
— Platform adopted by actual product teams
— Architecture supports new features without core rework
— Streamlined design-to-development workflow and review process
Standardization of UX Patterns
in Cloud Ecosystem
As part of a cross-functional initiative, I'm collaborating with a team of UX pattern maintainers
to create a unified system of interface solutions for our company's cloud services.
Current team activities
1. Regular workshops with pattern maintainers focused on:
— Analyzing cases from 10+ services and platforms
— Identifying most successful practices
— Establishing pattern selection criteria
2. Joint development of
— Unified pattern classification system
— Guidelines for adapting solutions to different contexts
— Feedback mechanisms from product teams
Team approach highlights
— Weekly syncs to align decisions
— Rotating ownership of different pattern categories
— Transparent proposal and voting process
We're building this iteratively with continuous input from our community of practitioners. Together we're creating a living knowledge system that will evolve alongside our products.