Pavel Laptev
Lead Designer at GitButler
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Laptev is a Berlin-based lead designer with over a decade of experience shaping product and design systems across fintech, e‑commerce, and enterprise platforms. He has led multidisciplinary teams of up to 10 designers, built scalable UI/UX libraries and front-end frameworks, and bridged design and engineering to deliver production-ready mobile and web products. Currently driving design at GitButler, Pavel contributes hands-on to UI development — refining CSS, components, and interactions for a Tauri/Rust/Svelte-based client. His background in art and architecture informs a structural approach to interfaces, while a master's in graphic design underpins his craft in visual systems and prototyping. Known for mentoring teams and improving design workflows, he also writes and contributes to the design community beyond day-to-day product work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Graphic Design, Master's degree Graphic Design at Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts
English, Russian, German
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Github Skills (14)
css10
uid10
svelte10
tauri10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
css-modules6
collision6
collision-detection6
css-houdini6
css-animations6
coffeescript6
constructor6
react6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
The GitButler version control client, backed by Git, powered by Tauri/Rust/Svelte
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 752 PRs, 1316 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on UI development within the GitButler project, as evidenced by commits addressing CSS fixes, design updates, and the addition of new components and features. Their work involved modifying CSS tokens, updating styles across components like the commit card and branch header, and implementing enhancements to UI interactions. The contributions centered on refining the visual presentation and user experience of the application.
tauri
PavelLaptev/figma-image-editor
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Figma plugin to manipulate images color and add filters
Contributions:6 releases, 24 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
filtersfigmapluginmanipulate-imagesfigma-plugin
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