Maxim Gurkin
Principal User Experience Designer at Autodesk
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaxim Gurkin is a Principal User Experience Designer in Portland with 14 years of experience blending hands-on software development and UX strategy to ship research-driven products at scale. At Autodesk he has led experience design across developer portals, desktop sync tools, cloud drive services, and CAD collaboration products, translating complex technical workflows into usable interfaces. His background in frontend leadership, REST API design, and semantic search integrations gives him a rare fluency in both engineering constraints and user-centered design. Colleagues rely on him to tighten cross-functional execution—turning analytics and user research into continuous design iterations that improve adoption. He holds an MSc in Computer Engineering and often draws on systems thinking from his ISP and backend origins to solve UX problems from first principles.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering Software and Automated Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering Software and Automated Systems at Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G.I. Nosov (MSTU) Magnitogorsk State Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (MGML)
English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
client-library9
java8
slack7
visualization3
location2
viewer2
slack-bot1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
redcraft/MetriX
Nov 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
redcraft/lmv-extensions
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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