Vera Maxakova
Product Design Strategist
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolVera Maxakova is a product design strategist with 13+ years of hands-on experience and a 15+-year background in product and interaction design, currently shaping experiences at Intuit. She blends deep UX craft—research, interaction design, front-end development, and design systems—with team-building and organizational change to deliver measurable product outcomes. Vera has led design efforts for high-profile financial products like TurboTax Live and QuickBooks Live and was a founding design lead at Alkami, influencing online banking experiences used by major credit unions. Her career began as a freelancer and agency co-founder, giving her a strong scrappy, client-facing sensibility that informs pragmatic product decisions. Known for instituting design libraries, review processes, and transitioning teams to more effective workflows, she mentors designers to balance user empathy with delivery realities. Based in Plano, Texas, she combines strategic thinking with an uncommon willingness to dive into code and front-end implementation.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Arts and Technology, MA, Arts and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas
English, Russian, RussianGithub contributions (2)
inko9nito/versionone
May 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year 1 month
inko9nito/Jira-Stylish
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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