Design
Five years across graphics, interfaces and identity — I can carry the meaning from an idea into the screen.
Design →DARIA SMIRNOVA · Product Builder
I launch digital products — from hypothesis to first users
- 3 weeks
- from development start to Shotra's release
- 500+
- Shotra users
I research the market, define the MVP, design the interface and lead development with AI agents. I took Shotra to production in three weeks: 500+ users and 10,000+ images generated. Before that, I spent three years as a backend engineer working in Java and Kotlin.
Open to a product team role, project work and part-time collaboration.
- Product Builder
- Product Lead
- Venture Builder
- Product Engineer
- 3 weeks
- from development start to Shotra's release
- 500+
- Shotra users
- 10 000+
- images generated in Shotra
- 3 years
- backend in Java / Kotlin
TRY THEM NOW
Bots, an extension, a gemstone atlas and a space channel
Small projects I build between the big ones. They're all live: the bots open in Telegram, the atlas in your browser, the space films on YouTube, and the extension installs in Chrome. The bots and the atlas are in Russian; Familiar also has an English version.-
Bday Reminder
Finds your friends' birthdays from past greetings in your chats and reminds you early enough to get a gift
@bdays_remind_bot ↗ -
Familiar
A 5-minute game that guesses your age from the celebrities who come to mind first
@familiarny_bot ↗ -
Which Dish Are You?
Tells you which dish you are from a photo. I'm panna cotta with berries
@YourDishBot ↗ -
Wow CV
Turns a CV from PDF, Word or plain text into an animated web page with a career timeline
@WowCVbot ↗ -
Hangman
A word game to play alone or with friends in a group chat
@vicilitsa_bot ↗ -
Watch Together
A Chrome extension for watching videos with friends far away: pause and seek happen for everyone at once. Works on YouTube, CTC and any site you turn it on for
Chrome Web Store ↗ -
Gemstone Atlas
100 stories about gemstones and an interactive lab, from how a crystal forms to how light plays on its facets
darydis.ru/gemstones ↗ -
Relaxing Cosmos
4K films about the real Universe: journeys through telescope images set to calm ambient music. My code builds the footage from a public sky survey
youtube.com/@cosmicrelax4K ↗
SELECTED CASE STUDIES
Three products I built myself
In each project, I own the hypothesis, interface, engineering and the decisions that follow conversations with users.live, with paying users
Shotra
I built an AI photo shoot service, added payments and improve it using funnel data and customer feedback.
- 10 000+
- images generated in Shotra
- 500+
- Shotra users
- 236+
- styles
launching September 2026
Where's My Home?
It gathers preferences in a questionnaire and ranks countries, cities and neighbourhoods using data from public sources.
72 factors
Read the case study →
beta launching September 2026
Jana
A personal AI assistant that keeps a medical record and food diary, and works with email and my calendar.
- medical record
- email and calendar
- food diary
HOW I WORK
From an unclear problem to a working product
- 01
Research
I find the real problem, study the market and test what a person is willing to pay for.
- 02
MVP and UX
I separate the first piece of value from everything that can wait, then design the path to it.
- 03
Development
I design the solution, brief AI agents, and read and edit the code they produce.
- 04
Launch and growth
I build the funnel, run traffic and change the product based on user behaviour.
COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE
Engineering on four company teams
Four companies, established codebases, team processes and code review — from interfaces to a marketplace backend.-
January 2023 — December 2025
Samokat — backend engineer
Server-side applications in Java and Kotlin — business logic, REST APIs, integrations with external systems -
April 2022 — January 2023
SberLogistics — full-stack engineer
Freight, logistics, warehousing and foreign trade -
June 2021 — April 2022
Expertec IBS · Apark
The start of my commercial frontend work: interface components, responsive markup and React.
MORE ABOUT ME
Design, writing and music
OPEN TO COLLABORATION