Summary
Valters Grišāns is a Lead Product Designer based in Riga with a decade of experience crafting digital products across fintech, agencies, and academia. He currently leads product design at Ethena Labs while teaching digital design at the Art Academy of Latvia, combining hands-on product leadership with a strong commitment to education. His background spans startups and large agencies—shaping automated OTC trading interfaces at Paradigm and visual data-driven experiences at CREATD—demonstrating a knack for turning complex data into clear, usable interfaces. Early front-end and development roles give him technical fluency that helps bridge design and engineering, and his recurring lecturer roles signal an ability to communicate design thinking to diverse audiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, New media art, 9, BA, New media art, 9 at Liepājas Universitāte
One semester, Animation, Design, B, One semester, Animation, Design, B at Volda University College (HVO)
secondary education, math / c++, secondary education, math / c++ at ventspils 1. ģimnāzija
English, Latvian