Since 2018, working with Wednesday, an award-winning independent design studio for frontier tech companies. They handle brand and product design, I handle development. Small team, no account managers: we work directly with founders and stay for the long run.
For Zora, 2022–2024. Worked across multiple products, from storefronts to editorial tools.
Zoratopia. Zora's three-day festival in New York during NFT.NYC 2022, with yoga and brunch in Brooklyn, panels on the future of web3, and a closing show at Knockdown Center with TOKiMONSTA and Mick Jenkins. Built the landing: lineup, schedule, RSVP.
Zine Supply. Burn a token, get a physical magazine. Built the pipeline: custom API verifies the burn on-chain, triggers a Shopify order, Supabase tracks every step along the way.
Zine. Zora's magazine on internet culture, made by and for cultural communities with a fanzine's DIY spirit. Every article is free to read and minted onchain: collect one you like, and automated splits pay the author, illustrator and everyone else who worked on it.
ZK Nation Website. Decentralized governance platform uniting chains, builders, and operators to manage and expand the ZKsync protocol.
Friends With Benefits, hackathon platform. Facilitating user collaboration to solve problems as teams.
WalletCon 2023. The first conference entirely dedicated to the wallet experience.
I love jumping into things: a magazine that needs to launch yesterday, an exhibition that has to go online mid-pandemic, an art show for a newsroom in exile. Small teams, weird challenges, tight deadlines.
Schön — Berlin city magazine in Russian from the makers of Meduza, covering politics, techno, and urban wildlife.
The publisher had a launch date, and I had one month to build everything: design, auth, payments. For the paywall we went with a soft block after three articles. Yes, you could clear cookies and keep reading. But any paywall without mandatory registration can be bypassed, and we didn't pretend otherwise. Paying was less a restriction than a donation in disguise.
Between December 2023 and June 2024, a six-person newsroom published about 150 articles for a city of up to 300,000 Russian speakers. Covered by Jungle World.
NO Exhibition — Meduza's 10th-anniversary art exhibition on life under authoritarianism, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, 2025.
13 artists, including SUPERFLEX, Pilvi Takala and Cristina Lucas, across nine themes from Dictatorship to Hope, picked by analysing ten years of Meduza headlines. Each section pairs the art with a voice from the newsroom, plus a documentary by Mikhail Durnenkov. Built the exhibition website in English and Russian, from section pages to interactive gallery navigation. Reviewed in The Conversation and taz.
The Constructor — online game for the Jewish Museum's exhibition on Moscow's avant-garde garages of the 1920s–30s.
Play as an avant-garde architect and build five famous Moscow garages with Tetris mechanics and four lives, starting with Konstantin Melnikov's Bakhmetevsky garage (1927), the building that houses the museum today. At the end, the game tells you who you'd have been in 1920s Moscow, from Mayakovsky to Melnikov himself. Launched in November 2020, when COVID-19 closed the exhibition to visitors. Built with Materialist design studio.
Future Architecture Rooms — online exhibition of 27 European architecture institutions, from MAXXI and the Royal Academy of Arts to the Mies van der Rohe Foundation.
Made in 2020, when video calls had turned everyone's private rooms into public ones, so each institution got a room of its own. Teamed up with Maksim Karalevich to build it. More than 130,000 visitors by October 2020.
Meduza is Russia's free press in exile. Declared 'undesirable' by the Kremlin, blocked and banned, it still reaches millions. Built the tech that keeps independent journalism alive when a government wants it dead.
- News platform frontend and editorial CMS for news aggregation.
- Built landing pages for The Storm Conference and Journalism Schools.
- Built the crowdfunding platform with Stripe integration.
Flower Power. Donating to Meduza from Russia can bring felony charges. So readers inside the country share why independent journalism matters to them under botanical code names, a nod to the anti-Nazi White Rose, and donors abroad pay on their behalf. The hall of fame keeps every code name and how many people responded. Built the whole frontend, plus request intake with automatic translation by Gemini Flash and an admin panel to manage the requests.