Karolina Kurstak
Senior Product Designer at Samozatrudnienie
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolKarolina Kurstak is a Senior Product Designer based in Warsaw with three years of focused product design experience and a broader decade-plus background in UX across fintech, enterprise, and media products. She currently shapes core experiences in Elastic Observability—prioritizing cross-product consistency, workflow clarity, and data discoverability to help engineers diagnose performance issues faster. Karolina has led platform redesigns and built multiple design systems from scratch at Howspace, Boclips and in freelance work, pairing design strategy with hands-on UI and brand work for both mobile and responsive web. A Certified Design Sprint Facilitator, she runs structured workshops and research-led processes that convert complex problems into clear, testable solutions. Her international studies in East Asian affairs and Chinese language add an uncommon cross-cultural perspective to product thinking and stakeholder collaboration. Colleagues describe her strength as turning messy technical domains into scalable, human-centered interfaces that reduce cognitive load for users.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate studies (China-EU Scholarship), Chinese Language and Culture Studies, Post-graduate studies (China-EU Scholarship), Chinese Language and Culture Studies at Beijing Normal UniversityMaster's degree, International Relations: East Asian Studies, Master's degree, International Relations: East Asian Studies at University of Warsaw
English, Spanish, Polish
Github Skills (12)
elasticsearch10
elastic10
observability10
visualizations10
kibana10
react7
css-in-js7
sass7
eui6
css6
ui-framework6
elastic-ui5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
elastic/kibana
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:5 reviews, 63 comments in 2 years 2 months
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/eui
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 20 days
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
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