Cristian Rus Email & Phone Number

Romania

Highlight: Delivered a state-of-the-art financial platform in 8 months starting from scratch: https://openbb.co/products/proOpenBB started during the pandemic as an open-source financial project and developed into an investment research platform. I joined the team as a design lead to help transform the existing command line interface into a next-generation.

Highlight: Helped ExpressVPN grow from 400k to 4 million customers, leading to its acquisition by Kape Technologies for nearly $1 billion USD.I joined ExpressVPN’s newly formed Product Design Team in 2017, where I contributed to the creation of the company's first design system and helped shape the vision for ExpressVPN products across Windows, macOS, iOS.

Highlight: Lead the design efforts to push Poken into becoming the cloud-based event management leader - acquired in 2017 by GESPoken’s goal was to reimagine how people exchange information in-person. They became a leader in the Event Management industry and NFC space after developing a proprietary short-range touch-to-collect chip embedded in tiny.

Highlight: Serviced over 100 clients worldwideiDesign was a boutique branding and design studio with offices in Romania and The Netherlands.Soon after joining the team, I became a co-owner while continuing to lead the Design department. We collaborated with over 100 clients worldwide, including major brands like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Nissan, Renault.

Short Course, User Experience Design

Computer Science