Karolina Szczur
Lead Product Designer at Octopus Deploy
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKarolina Szczur is a Lead Product Designer with 14 years’ experience blending product leadership, hands-on design and front-end engineering to ship cohesive, user-centred products. She’s built and matured multiple design systems—from startups to scale-ups—and currently leads design system strategy and tooling migration at Octopus Deploy, driving cross-company contribution models and semi-automated icon workflows. A recovering founder and former co-founder of Calibre Analytics, she pairs product thinking and operational discipline with a strong emphasis on documentation, accessibility and sustainable delivery. Karolina’s background in HCI and early-career work as a tester and developer give her rare fluency across research, visual design and implementation, which she leverages to coach teams and reduce handoff friction. Outside product work she has directed inclusive community events and runs photography as a creative throughline in her practice.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor's degree Human Computer Interaction at Jagiellonian University
English, Polish, German
Github Skills (94)
image-processing10
messenger10
seneca10
performance-testing10
chat10
compression10
monitoring10
mongoose10
javascript10
react-components10
image-optimization10
pattern10
performance-optimization10
inferno10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cssconfoak/cssconfoak.github.io
Oct 2014 - Jul 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 2 pushes in 7 years 11 months
calibreapp/react-live-chat-loader
Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
Implement a live chat beacon in your React application without performance regressions.
Contributions:13 reviews, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 11 months
helpscoutreact-componentsdriftmessengerreactjs
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