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Alina Kabanets

Alina Kabanets

Alina Kabanets, a black-and-white self-portrait with motion blur

Product Engineer
React / TypeScript

I design and build products end to end, from user research to shipped code to the numbers that follow.

Open to product engineer roles · London, hybrid or remote
Available now for 3 days a week, or full-time with 1 month’s notice

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Selected work (02)

  • 01 · Vigorant

    2025–26

    Borna Care, US healthcare SaaS

    Two healthcare MVPs, designed from scratch

    Standalone Forms product won Borna’s first paying client

    Lead product designer + front-end

    Research · Information architecture · Design system · RBAC · Figma · React

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    Borna Care, product demo
    Scene 1 of 4
    Patient, booking
    Patient app: choosing a service, doctor and time slot
    Admin, clinic dashboard
    Admin dashboard with services, forms, pending users and today’s appointments
    11pm, patient books

    Sarah opens Borna Care at 11pm and books her dental appointment without calling anyone. She picks her service, doctor and time slot in under two minutes.

  • 02 · Deaku

    2026

    AI-native creator workspace

    Rebuilding a landing page for conversion

    A 20-screen feature tour became one focused, mobile-first page

    Design, build + measurement, lead

    UX strategy · Figma · Next.js · Funnel metrics · KPI tree

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    Deaku landing page
    After
    after

    One focused page: the problem, the workflow in seven stages, then one call to action.

How I work

  1. 01

    Understand

    Start from the user problem and the business goal. Research, flows and success criteria come before pixels.

  2. 02

    Build

    Design in Figma, prototype in code, then ship production React and TypeScript. I own both the decision and the implementation.

  3. 03

    Measure

    Agree what success looks like up front, instrument it, and check after launch. Then iterate on what the numbers say.

About

  • Black-and-white self-portrait, eyes lowered behind glasses
  • Self-portrait in a cream cardigan, head turning in motion blur
  • Self-portrait in glasses, smiling over the shoulder in motion blur
  • Self-portrait with a hand raised to the face, blurred in motion
  • Self-portrait in glasses and a knit cardigan, face dissolving in motion
Self-portraits

I’m a product engineer in London. I design and build front-end products in React and TypeScript, and I care most about the moment someone decides whether to trust what’s on the screen.

At Deaku, a five-person AI-native startup, I shape how the assistant, agent and MCP features behave: what they show, what they ask, and when they stop. Before that I designed two healthcare products from scratch for a US SaaS company, including their design system.

I studied psychology and spent eight years as a photographer before moving into product. Both still show up in my work: an interest in why people act the way they do, and an eye for detail and patience with craft.

Contact

Let’s build something people can trust.

aokabanets@gmail.com

Open to product engineer roles · London, hybrid or remote
Available now for 3 days a week, or full-time with 1 month’s notice. Fully authorised to work in the UK.