My name is Katerina.

I'm a Product Operations leader with roots in web development and UX design, and I've spent my career learning how to make complexity navigable: for systems, for teams, and for the people working inside them.

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This is my corner of the internet. Part professional portfolio, part creative space, part ongoing experiment in building an intentional life out loud.

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My Story

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I started as a web developer, learning how systems are built from the inside out. Then I spent a decade as a UX designer, learning how people move through them: where they get lost, where they find flow, where the gap between intent and experience lives. Eventually I turned that same lens inward, from designing for users to designing for the teams doing the building. UX to Design Ops to Product Ops.

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Outside of work, I've been navigating a life that required its own kind of operational thinking. I was a service dog handler. I'm an adaptive athlete competing in curling. I've built a creative community online, learned the hard way what burnout costs, and rebuilt something more sustainable in its place.

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Through all of it, I've been drawn to design that helps people organize their lives: minimalist planners, functional notebooks, templates that do real work without adding visual noise. Not because I have everything figured out, but because good structure makes navigating complexity a little less exhausting.