Taya Lavrinenko
Lead Map Designer at Mapbox
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolTaya Lavrinenko is a Lead Map Designer based in Helsinki with a decade of experience crafting cartographic products and GIS-driven visualizations for global platforms. She has progressed through senior and lead roles at Mapbox and Yandex after shaping urban mapping and wayfinding projects for Moscow Metro, Urbica, and Vokrug Sveta magazine. Taya blends rigorous geographic training from MSU with an MA in communications and design to translate complex spatial data into clear, beautiful maps and intuitive digital experiences. Known for bridging design and data management, she focuses on practical visual solutions that scale across web and mobile mapping ecosystems. Her background suggests a knack for operationalizing cartography workflows—turning editorial and transit mapping requirements into production-ready map styles and tools.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.) at State University — Higher School of Economics (Faculty of Communications, Media and Design)Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (22)
webgl10
openstreetmap10
tiles10
javascript10
mapbox-gl-js10
mapbox-gl10
vector-tiles10
browser10
geojson10
vector10
3d10
monorepo10
maps10
typescript8
microsoft7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tayalav/homepage
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
tayalav/velobike_prototype
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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