I landed my first real role at Groflex, a German startup. Spent five months on the WebApp team alongside two other designers which became my first taste of actual product work with actual deadlines. After that, I joined Approvam as their only designer. Just me. I figured it out, delivered, and learned more in that stretch than any course could teach.

Then I joined Dexla. UK-based startup, and they brought me in to lead the redesign of their low-code app builder into a fully no-code AI product. That project stretched me in ways I didn't expect, leading design across multiple teams, keeping documentation tight, communicating with people who thought very differently from me. It's also what pulled me into the AI space.

Now I'm at Airstride, and honestly, it's the most I've ever grown in a role. I came in to design version 2 of the product, specifically Carmen, an AI Agent that helps vendor find and acquire partners without the usual headaches. But the role kept growing. Ended up also owning the website redesign, diving into SEO optimization. Before I knew it, I was in everything and it's working as there was 84% jump in conversions after the website redesign and optimization. I'm not just designing here, I'm building.