Stas Kulesh

Designer in Auckland, New Zealand

Member since July 21, 2016

From the heart of the Scottish Highlands, 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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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
- UI Design
- Data Visualization
- Android
- Prototyping
- Mobile
- Mobile UX
Genomelink
- Mobile Design
- Mobile Web Design
- Sketch
- Web Animation
- Icon Sets
- Icon Animation
- Branding
- UI Branding
- Web UI
- Web UX
- User Experience (UX)
- Data Visualization
- Web Design
- Illustration
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- User Journeys
Illustrations for an eBook
- Web Illustration
- Illustration
- Vector Illustration
- Vector Art
- Vector Images
- Book Design & Illustration
- Vectors
- Vector Design
- Illustrator CC
- Sketch 3
- Sketch
- Branding
- User Stories
Phbench Web App
- NLU
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- 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
- User Experience (UX)
- Landing Page Designer
- Prototyping
Electrolease Website
- Websites
- Web Design
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- BrowserStack
- Mobile Web
- Electrical Design
- Electrical Engineering
- Landing Page Design
- UX Design
Monsters for Sketch
- Sketch
- Templates
- Fun & Lifestyle
- Social
- Illustration
- Vectors
- Vector Graphics
- Vector Logos
- Vector Images
- SVG
- Illustrator CC
PaintNite Website Design
- Logo Design
- Mobile Web Design
- Desktop Web Design
- Web Design
- Startups
- Adobe Photoshop
- PSD
- Revamps
- Upgrades
- Painting
- InVision
- Branding
- Flat Design
- User Experience (UX)
- Landing Page Designer
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- User Journeys
- UX Design
Easy Riser iOS App
- iOS
- iOS App Design
- 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
- UI Design
- User Experience (UX)
- Data Visualization
- Prototyping
- User Stories
- Mobile Apps
- Mobile UX
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
- Landing Page Designer
- Landing Page Design
- Prototyping
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- User Journeys
- User Stories
- UX Design

Employment

Creative Director
2009 - PRESENT
Sliday
- Designed and developed a multitude of products for local and international clients.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Sketch
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: CSS, XHTML, PHP, JavaScript, Animated GIFs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Creative Suite
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: CSS, XHTML, PHP, Animated GIFs, Xara Xtreme, Flash, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite
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 PowerPoint, Animated GIFs, Xara Xtreme, Flash, Adobe Creative Suite, SharePoint
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: Deep Exploration, Deep Paint 3D, Maya, Flash, Animated GIFs, Adobe Illustrator, ImageReady, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

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