Vadim Mikhnov-vaitenko
Designer at Kilanka GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Mikhnov-vaitenko is a designer with 11 years’ experience leading and scaling design systems for product teams across Berlin and international companies. He has driven design system strategy and implementation at Appsmith, Preply and Babbel, translating reusable UI patterns into production-ready components for both open-source and commercial products. His hands-on contributions to Appsmith’s design system—refining color palettes, buttons, inputs and markdown code blocks—showcase a practical focus on visual consistency that improves developer handoff and product velocity. Comfortable working at the intersection of design and code, he brings a rare blend of UI craftsmanship, motion/design background and systems thinking that helps teams roll out large-scale UX changes efficiently.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Russian State Social UniversityLevel I Information and interface design, Level I Information and interface design at Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau SchoolComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (13)
css10
system10
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
color-theory10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
storybook10
typescript-types10
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
appsmithorg/appsmith
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:213 reviews, 84 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vadim primarily contributed to the development of the design system within the Appsmith repository. Their work focused on creating and refining color palettes and styles for various UI elements, including buttons, text inputs, and modal overlays. The contributions involved implementing changes to button styles, adjusting the appearance of text inputs, and fine-tuning text and background colors to enhance overall visual consistency. Furthermore, the user improved the design of several visual elements such as the slider component and code blocks within the markdown.
custom-internaldeveloper-toolslow-code-frameworkcrudinternal-tools
ichik/GrvSqncBrk
Jul 2015 - Feb 2025
Grav CMS theme.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 302 pushes in 9 years 8 months
cmsplayerssummernotegrav-plugingrav-cms
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