Hi, I'm Marina, a Senior UX/UI Designer based in Austin, Texas, with 5+ years of experience in B2B SaaS and fintech.

Before design, I spent over a decade as an architect. It's where my instinct for structure and systems thinking comes from, and it shapes how I approach every product I design.

That experience is what I brought to Panax as founding designer, building the design practice from the ground up. My challenge was to take the complexity of financial operations for lean finance and treasury teams and make it feel simple and intuitive without losing the depth these teams need. Today, Panax is used by finance and treasury teams at companies ranging from fast-growing startups to established enterprises, and that early bet on clarity over complexity became one of the things that sets it apart in the market.

AI has changed how I work and what I design. It's expanded my own set of tools and opened a new world of user experiences based on AI capabilities.

I'm genuinely fascinated by where AI will take design next, and I want to help shape that future. Building AI-native products has taught me that the more powerful the technology, the more human judgment matters. Knowing what to automate, what to protect, and when simplicity should win over depth isn't something AI decides for you. That's where I bring the most value: pairing the speed AI unlocks with the instinct for what actually makes an experience good.