Ivan Boyko
UI/UX Designer at Icons8
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Braun is a founder and product-oriented design leader with 12+ years building bootstrapped design and AI businesses from the ground up. As founder of Icons8 and Generated Photos, he has grown a portfolio of design assets and AI tools—icons, illustrations, vector editor, and a 100k-face synthetic dataset—used by designers, gamers, and ML practitioners. He combines hands-on UX and iconography expertise (dating back to VisualPharm and Parallels) with pragmatic product engineering to ship tools like an AI upscaler and animated icon sets. Based in San Francisco, he repeatedly turns creative problems into scalable, revenue-generating products without external funding. He also supports the design community through free education licenses and open-source sponsorships, and is actively recruiting design writers and motion designers to expand his ecosystem. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he pairs serious product ambition with a playful, bike-loving personality that keeps teams energetic and grounded.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lviv Polytechnic National University
English, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
icon-pack10
feather-icons10
animated10
logos10
webpages10
branding10
sketch10
iconic10
markdown10
ux-design10
software-design10
formatter10
graphic10
api10
yaml10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
icons8/api-docs
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years
icons8/lunacy-donate
May 2020 - Jul 2021
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Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
stripestripe-checkoutpayment-pagehostedno-server
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