Tania Abanina

I run a coaching practice for tech and creative professionals and emerging leaders navigating: - role transitions and scope expansion - communication and feedback skill development - leadership identity and style formation - career change planning, shifting into a new field, changing role or position - improving work-life relationships, burnout prevention and recovery - (re)discovering meaning in one's work, values mapping Trained with an ICF-accredited program.

* Taught UX/UI engineering and Fullstack tracks in remote settings for cohorts of 4–6 learners and provided individual guidance * Authored a 6-month full-time UX/UI Engineering program (UX/UI design to frontend development, design systems and component libraries) under senior supervision. Collaborated on program iterations with a cross-functional team to refine structure and delivery * Supported hiring: defined assessment criteria, refined interview process, screened candidates, and onboarded two teachers

* People and team development: ran 1-1s for four people; shaped personal and team growth plans; influenced team dynamics (6–12 people) while refining agile practices. * Led frontend hiring: grew team from 2 to 5 over three years. * Set up hiring for a lead role: defined stages, led a 6-person team, and owned screening. * Mentored on web dev best practices (HTML, CSS, UX, inclusive/ethical design). * Active in DEI group: spotted issues, proposed actions, and presented them to top management.

Frontend dev in a cross-functional team for the online shop: built features, fixed bugs, created campaign pages, improved SEO/WCV, contributed to design. Saved 50+ h/month via UI styleguide used in two rebrands; later helped marketing adapt Dynamic Yield with templates and tracking. Improved cross-team flow with regular PM/design/dev syncs. Managed distributed workflow: scoped work, wrote specs, tracked progress, curated guides. Led workshops on HTML, CSS, atomic design, accessibility, inclusive design.

Customer faced work on projects as a web/UX designer and/or frontend developer and brand consultant for different sectors: education, culture, media, online shops: * UI/UX design and development * customisation of themes for various CMS and frameworks: WordPress, Magento, Woocommerce, Shopify, Rails, Angular, Django, Jekyll, Bootstrap, PL/SQL. * UI/UX audits * consulting on brand and content strategy * technical writing