Stas Kulesh

Designer

Auckland, New Zealand

Member since July 21, 2016

From the heart of Middle-earth aka New Zealand, Stas is a full-stack designer with 15+ years of experience: 400+ projects designed and coded. He has led many projects for companies like Foursquare, Facebook, LEGO, Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, TLC, and Tupperware. Working with startups is particularly thrilling for him. Stas has designed and coded the initial application for the startup Zoomdata—allowing them to raise $1.1 million in 2012.

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Portfolio

Digital Design

Safety iOS and Apple Watch App
- Apple Watch Design
- Apple Watch
- iOS
- iPhone
- Apps
- Mobile App UI
- Safety
- Location Services
- Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS)
- Location Tracking
- Apple
- Push Notifications
- Apple Push Notifications
- Silent Push Notifications
Karmabot for Slack, MS Teams and Telegram
- Chatbots
- Web Design
- Mobile Design
- Dashboard Design
- Wireframing
- Sketch
- Web Development
- Ruby on Rails (RoR)
- Slack
- Slackbot
- Slack App
- Live Chat
- Human Resources (HR)
- Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)
- Customer Analysis
- Teamwork
- Slackware
- Chrome Extensions
- Extensions
- Browser Plugins
Monsters for Sketch
- Sketch
- Templates
- Fun & Lifestyle
- Social
- Illustration
- Vectors
- Vector Graphics
- Vector Logos
- Vector Images
- SVG
Estimapp Hybrid App
- Apps
- Design
- Mobile Design
- Android UI Design
- Android App Design
- Mobile App Design
- iOS
- iOS App Design
- Ionic
- Android
Phbench Web App
- NLU
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Natural Language Understanding
- Sentiment Analysis
- AngularJS
- Angular Bootstrap
- InVision
- Web Design
- Mobile Web Design
- Sensu
- Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Machine Learning
- Google Cloud Sentiment
- Google Cloud Natural Language
- Product Hunt
- JSON API
- JSONP
PaintNite Website Design
- Logo Design
- Mobile Web Design
- Desktop Web Design
- Web Design
- Startups
- Adobe Photoshop
- PSD
- Revamps
- Upgrades
- Painting
- InVision
- Branding
- Flat Design
Electrolease Website
- Websites
- Web Design
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- BrowserStack
- Mobile Web
- Electrical Design
- Electrical Engineering
Easy Riser iOS App
- iOS
- iOS App Design
- Prototyping
- APIs
- MapBox
- Maps
- Google Maps
- Google Traffic
- OpenWeatherMap
- Mapbox Styling
- Google Maps Styling
- InVision
- Zeplin
- Avocode
- Machine Learning
- Google Cloud Machine Learning
- Dark Design
- Dark
- Product Hunt
YouMilk
- iOS
- App UX
- UIkit
- User Experience (UX)
- Web
- Ruby on Rails (RoR)
- Web App Design
- Android Design Guidelines
- Mobile App Design
- Mobile Design
- InVision
- Prototyping
- Apps
- Cross-platform UX
- Blue
- Women

Employment

Creative Director
2009 - PRESENT
Sliday
- Designed and developed a multitude of products for local and international clients.
Technologies: Sketch, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Lead Web Designer | Developer
2008 - 2009
Rad3
- Participated in several projects as a lead web designer and developer (JavaScript, PHP, and XHTML/CSS).
- Created all sorts of identity works.
- Developed Flash-based websites.
- Wrote lots of jQuery scripts,.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, GIF Movie Gear, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML, CSS
Web Designer | Developer
2006 - 2008
Netactive
- Worked in several projects as a lead graphic designer and programmer (PHP and XHTML/CSS.).
- Created e-mail templates, identity work, and a portfolio for Netactive itself.
- Did content management.
- Built templates for different types of CMS.
- Developed Flash-based sites.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Flash, Xara Xtreme, GIF Movie Gear, PHP, XHTML, CSS
Web Designer | Project Manager
2005 - 2006
Novosoft
- Developed the identity of the company Novosoft LLC (www.novosoft.net).
- Designed the product web pages for Handy Password (www.handy-password.com), Office Backup (www.office-backup.net), and Handy Backup (www.handy-backup.net).
- Designed the graphical user interface for Handy Password's software.
- Created icons for Handy Backup's software and Office Backup's software.
- Designed a software web-catalog for Softempire (www.softempire.com).
Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Macromedia Flash, Xara Xtreme, GIF Movie Gear, Microsoft PowerPoint
Lead Graphic Designer | Web Designer | Game Designer | Developer | Project Manager
2002 - 2005
Exclusive Games
- Collaborated with a team of developers to create shareware games.
- Created 2D graphics, 3D graphics, animation using Alias Maya 6.0, and implemented the texturing and optimization of resources.
- Worked on game-design, 3D-modelling, 2D-graphics, animation, and all promotional materials (banners, web-site, CD-cover).
- Created three games during 2003 including Tank-O-Box (www.tank-o-box.com), Electronica (www.nice-games.net/elec.html), and Beat’N’Roll (demo-version).
- Redesigned Pickman Saves the Kingdom game (www.nice-games.net/pick.html).
- Worked on the game Tank-O-Box 1.0 which became one of 30 semifinalists in the Rendering section of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2004 contest—was later released by Buka Publishing company and later won The Best Casual Game Award 2006 in Russia.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, GIF Movie Gear, Macromedia Flash, Maya 6.0, Deep Paint 3D, Deep Exploration, Deep UV

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Nuclear Physics
1999 - 2004
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Russia

Certifications

Startup School Advisor Track
NOVEMBER 2018 - PRESENT
Y Combinator

Experience

UI Design12 years
Landing Page Design12 years
User Experience (UX)10 years
Dashboard Design7 years
Data Visualization7 years
Sketch6 years
Blockchain Platforms3 years
Cryptocurrency Development3 years

Tools

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