Marina Makeewa
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Code management platform

A Russian alternative to GitHub/GitLab for a bank. 4 teams × 9 designers.

Role
Lead Product Designer
Period
2023 — 2024
Company
VTB / Innotech

TODAY 2026

Today I'd do it this way

The code management platform took 8 months to design — IA, USM, design system, prototypes. Today the `ia-from-research` skill takes 10–15 developer interviews and generates a first draft of information architecture in an hour. Not final — but good enough to start a real conversation with the team.

Then8 months
Now2 months
Skill I'm writing for this

ia-from-research

Coming soon

A draft product IA from user-research transcripts.

Capabilities
  • Clusters user jobs from 10+ interviews
  • First-level sitemap with rationale for every branch
  • Checklist for what to ask in the next round of interviews

ARCHIVE 2024

How it was done then

Summary

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Built a code management and CI/CD platform for a bank from scratch — a Russian alternative to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SonarCube. Full control over both SaaS and On-Prem projects.

Led 4 product teams with 9 designers. Owned: information architecture, USM and team backlog, design system selection and extension, prototypes tested against future user roles (developer, tech lead, reviewer, release manager). Shipped MVP, then added forks, reverse pull requests, commenting, error statistics, code quality management.

Beyond delivery: built dev/design-review processes for a platform product, ran syncs and 1:1s, designed career tracks for designers, onboarded juniors and supervised interns, embedded research into every stage.