Gleb Stroganov — design engineer
Good tools assume their user is smart. I've spent a decade on that premise as a design engineer at Evil Martians — developer IDEs, canvas editors, and now agent debuggers. I design the product and ship the code, mostly for dev-tool and AI startups.
Open source: AgentPrism for AI agent observability, Storybook Workbench for auditing vibe-coded UIs with agent skills, Harmony for accessible color palettes.
Off the clock I collect vinyl, chase festivals, and play everything from bass to modular synths.
Product designFrontend
Agent Prism
Problem
AI agents fail silently: they loop, skip steps, and return wrong answers. Manual log-scrubbing stretches incidents from minutes to hours while redundant model calls burn budget.
Solution
React components that turn raw OpenTelemetry traces into views you can read:
- A hierarchical tree view
- A timeline with execution flow and real-time cost
- A details panel and sequence diagram for step-by-step replay
Results
- Quotient AI runs it in production, debugging cut from 4 hours to 30 seconds
- 80% less debug time, 60% less memory
- Vibe-coded 12 component options, validated down to the 4 views that earned their place
- A Figma UI kit with design tokens and a semantic color system, plus drop-in React components: TypeScript, zero config
Product design
Miru Labs
Problem
Security and fraud investigation teams juggle fragmented tools and siloed workflows, losing context across domains. Manual correlation turns minutes of thinking into hours of mechanical work.
Solution
A graph-native investigation platform for a VC-backed Irish cybersecurity startup:
- Workspaces for manual and AI-assisted investigations
- Agentic Dispatch for autonomous triage
- StratoGraph for persistent investigation memory
Results
- Working MVP shipped after a 7-month collaboration
- Led frontend and NodeJS backend: technical strategy and product thinking
- Brought in trusted SRE, backend, and AI specialists to unblock the hard calls
- Team reached independent capability, freeing founders for their next raise
Marketing siteWebflow3D
GMI Cloud
Problem
GMI Cloud, a GPU cloud provider, needed to lift conversions and win the market fast, without the internal resources for a full redesign.
Solution
A complete Webflow redesign, built to move:
- Custom templates with 3D Spline visuals
- Conversion-optimized product pages
- A CMS and multilingual foundation for future growth
Results
- 12 pages shipped in 3.5 weeks
- Interactive 3D pages, with 50%+ of traffic on mobile
- 10 posts migrated, 3 languages live
- A non-technical marketing team now runs the site on its own
Lab
Tools and prototypes I build to fix problems I keep hitting — and see them differently.
Open source
Talks
Writing
- Storybook Workbench: audit vibe-coded UIs and find hidden bugs in hours
- 2 Martians, greenfield to MVP in 4 weeks: agentic coding on Rails
- From 0 signal to 128 cold signups: product validation on a $2K budget
- Debug AI fast with this open source library to visualize agent traces
- How AI startups use changelogs to win developer trust
- GMI Cloud meets Webflow and speeds ahead in the AI compute race
- Ease and epiphany: 4 ways to stop misguided dev tools user onboarding
- Keep it together: 5 essential design patterns for dev tool UIs
- Smartly contracted: UI design and frontend for Certora
- The Martian Design Sprint: starting and running projects faster
Working together
Best fit: developer-tool and AI-agent startups, seed to Series B, with a real product to ship. I take it end-to-end, design through production code, in weeks rather than months. Brief me at strongeron@evilmartians.com or through Evil Martians’ contact form.
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