Kristiyan Lukanov
Senior UX Researcher at Amadeus
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolKristiyan Lukanov is a Senior UX Researcher with a decade of experience designing and validating user experiences for finance and cloud products, currently leading research at Amadeus. He holds a Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Nottingham and has a proven track record of lifting sign-ups and payment conversions by 5–15% through targeted research and design changes. Kristiyan has scaled research operations across global teams—building repositories, templates and recruitment workflows that reduced study setup time from a week to two days and accelerated access to insights by 80%. His work spans hands-on usability testing (70+ at Kinsta, 50+ across LATAM at PayRetailers) to product strategy, and he’s contributed front-end UX fixes to open-source projects like the Zap Wallet. Outside enterprise roles he launched HDRobots.com to help others discover productivity-boosting AI tools, reflecting a practical interest in tooling and efficiency. Based in Sofia, he combines quantitative impact with a clinician-like attention to user workflows and communication, rooted in early customer-support experience.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master’s Degree, Human Computer Interaction at University of NottinghamBachelor's degree, Computer science, Bachelor's degree, Computer science at Plovdivski universitet 'Paisii Hilendarski'
English, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
user-interface10
react10
ui-design9
sass8
css8
git7
meteorite6
authentication6
useraccounts6
meteor6
navbar6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LN-Zap/zap-desktop
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Zap Wallet - Cross platform Lightning Network wallet focused on user experience and ease of use ⚡️
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 36 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kristiyan primarily focused on front-end UI/UX improvements and bug fixes within the Zap Wallet application. Their contributions involved reformatting and fixing layout issues in the request and pay forms. Furthermore, the user reworked spacing and button styles within the onboarding flow and network components, and resolved lint errors. These changes demonstrate an emphasis on improving the user experience and visual presentation of the wallet.
lightninglightning-network-walletuser-experiencewalletfocused
odb366/Masters
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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