Lucas Kurilov
Managing Director at Build in London
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorLucas Kurilov is a London-based product and engineering leader with eight years of experience founding and scaling consumer fintech and platform products for millions of users. As founder of Umber and director at Lettermark Partners, he combines hands-on engineering (open-source Gatsby front-end work for Monzo's Progression Framework) with senior product leadership across Monzo, Starling, Zego, FT Strategies and enterprise clients. He has repeatedly launched youth-focused bank accounts and developer-facing banking products that moved millions of users, and led cross-functional squads to deliver platform migrations and new revenue streams. Equally comfortable shipping frontend UX improvements and backend services, he bridges design, engineering and executive strategy to turn complex regulatory and technical constraints into delightful product experiences. Notably, he’s a high-school dropout who has built repeatable product teams and studios, bringing an entrepreneurial, maker-first approach to established financial brands.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
31reputation
2kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (15)
css10
javascript10
react10
gatsby10
sec9
content-security-policy9
html9
responsive-design9
spring-boot-maven-plugin6
maven6
google-app-engine6
spring6
jetty6
spring-boot6
gradle6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
monzo/progression-framework
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
The Monzo Progression Framework site, built with Gatsby.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 51 PRs, 82 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on front-end development within the Monzo Progression Framework site. Their contributions include implementing a redesign of the site with a new masonry-style layout, introducing an example dropdown functionality, and optimizing the styling for smaller devices. The user also made changes to the codebase to include Google Analytics and address Content Security Policy (CSP) concerns for the site's functionality. Further contributions included updating the header for the frameworks.
gatsbybuilt-with-gatsbymonzogatsbyjsprogression
lucasjohnston/pls.vote
Mar 2019 - Apr 2024
Making registering to vote just one tap away 🗳️
Contributions:28 PRs, 41 pushes, 28 branches in 5 years 1 month
reacttypescriptvote
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