Péter Polgár
Senior Experience Designer at Canonical
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolPéter Polgár is a pragmatic design leader and senior experience designer based in Copenhagen with 15+ years shaping complex B2B and cloud product journeys across SaaS, security, and developer-focused platforms. He has built and scaled UX teams—from founding design groups at Krisp and Emarsys to leading Trustpilot’s B2B UX—and now shapes Ubuntu Pro experiences at Canonical. Péter blends hands-on interaction design and user research with strategic design systems and product discovery, coaching teams to lift research maturity and embed user-centered decision-making. He also advises startups through his boutique studio and polgarp.com, helping founders validate product-market fit and craft investor-ready narratives. A former PhD candidate in computer science, he combines rigorous academic thinking with practical product delivery, often pairing designers with researchers to accelerate learning and impact.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (stopped with pre-degree certificate) Computer Science, PhD (stopped with pre-degree certificate) Computer Science at Eötvös Loránd University
English, Hungarian, German, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (2)
ubuntu8
operating-system6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
polgarp/polgarp.github.io
May 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
polgarp/alg-exp
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:222 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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