Vladimir Dzekh
Senior Product Designer. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
@dzekh
About
Overall experience in the industry — ~20 years, including 10+ years in product design.
Work with Figma and AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor) to accelerate and improve the quality of product decisions.
Have a deep understanding of product development and operations processes. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, contributing to well-informed product decisions.
Design solutions based on user scenarios, context of use, and Jobs-to-be-Done, with strong attention to detail and a focus on product metrics.
Work Experience
2023 - Present
Nebius • Amsterdam • Over 2,000 employees
Nebius — an international company specializing in AI cloud solutions, providing an end-to-end platform covering the entire AI lifecycle — from data collection and preparation to model training, fine-tuning, deployment, and production.
Senior Product Designer at Nebius Token Factory
Since September 2025 — designing a platform for scalable inference of open-source LLMs, including deployment, optimization, and model management in production.
Senior Product Designer at Nebius AI Cloud Console
2023–2025 — designed and launched the first version of Nebius cloud platform as part of a cross-functional team.
2011 - 2023
SKB Kontur • Yekaterinburg • Over 10,000 employees
Kontur creates business products that help you spend less time on routine, and make communication with government agencies and suppliers easier and more transparent. Key areas are electronic document management, accounting, electronic signature and online cash registers.
Product Designer
Since 2014, I worked in the subteam “reporting forms” of “Extern” product and, along with the redesign of form pages, was involved in improving user experience.
At the end of 2016, a group of product designers and I created and published the first version of requirements for Kontur’s design interfaces, called Kontur.Guides. Since 2017, I have been supporting and developing the design system based on this guidelines.
Since April 2020, I was a development manager: I have assembled a team to support the design system, which included at that time 4 front-end developers, 2 designers and a tester. At the end of 2022, I found a manager to replace me, and since January 2023 I returned to product designers.
Graphic Designer
In December 2011, I joined SKB Kontur as a graphic designer and, in 2012, I redesigned main Kontur’s product — Extern.
2007 - 2011
Individual Entrepreneur Dzekh V. V. • Yekaterinburg • 1 employee • 100+ clients
As an individual entrepreneur and freelancer, I provided services for creating websites from design to implementation. Collaborated with companies: Jet Style, Nag.ru, Top Ten, Top-Multimedia, Graff Interactive, Web Zenith, Motiv, Yekaterinburg Youth Theater, Uralintek, Production Center “Premier” and others.
2006 - 2007
Sigmakom Web Development • Yekaterinburg • 5+ employees
Website development and promotion.
Web-designer
Creating website design layouts, flash banners, flash programming, flash animation.
2005 - 2006
Mediasite • Yekaterinburg • 20+ employees
Website development and promotion.
Web-designer
Creating website design layouts, flash banners, flash programming, flash animation.
2003 - 2005
DataKrat • Yekaterinburg • 100+ employees
Trade and service automation, supply of commercial and packaging equipment, security systems, etc.
Graphic Designer
Creating design layouts for corporate brochures, leaflets, printed materials, outdoor advertising, and promotional products.
2002 - 2003
LLC “Mediaforum” • Ekaterinburg • 20+ employees
Manufacture of advertising and souvenir products, organization of events, creation of websites.
Print designer
Creation of design layouts for printed products, outdoor advertising, souvenirs.
2001 - 2002
Model Agency “Millennium” • Yekaterinburg • 20+ employees
The “Millennium” modeling agency provided services for creating a portfolio of models and promoting them on the model market.
Photographer
Portfolio shooting for models. Image processing for virtual portfolio and website. Interior and furniture photography. Advertising shooting.
2000 - 2001
Photo service center «Svetopis» Yekaterinburg • 10+ employees
Printer, photographer
Printing photos in prof. laboratories. Shooting for documents, studio shooting.
Education
1998 - 2000
Yekaterinburg State Theater Institute • Drama and Film Theater Actor Faculty. The master of course is Vladimir Ivanovich Marchenko.
Additional Education
2019
Advanced Feedback Course by Kontur
Igor Shtang’s Course on Typography and Layout
2018
“How to Be a Product” Course by Mikhail Karpov and Roman Abramov
Font Construction Course by Valery Golyzhenkov at bangbangeducation.ru
2017
Digital Design Course by Tilda
2014
Steve Simpson’s Illustration Course
2013
“Branding and Identity” two-day Intensive course
2012
User Interface Design Course in Workshop Format at MGPPU (Moscow State Pedagogical University), Faculty of Information Technology, Instructor Alina Zotova
Participation in conferences
2018 - Report “Design system of thirty products for business” • CodeFest, Novosibirsk • Recording of the report
2018 - Report “At what time a design team should start creating its own design system” • Design Weekend in Samara • Recording of the report
The other Activities
2016 – 2020 For several years, I was the organizer of the Kontur’s annual internal design competition “Kontur Design Award”, held thematic design meetings, workshops. Participated in organizing meetups called “Design Update”.