# About - Gleb Stroganov

> Design engineering for AI-agent and developer-tool startups. A decade of dev-tool taste, shipped end-to-end. Weeks, not months.

I'm a design engineer at [Evil Martians](https://evilmartians.com/martians/gleb-stroganov). A decade chasing one question: how do you design tools developers don't quit by day three?

That question pulled me through developer IDEs, no-code platforms, canvas editors, and node-based workflow builders. When vibe coding arrived I was one of the first designers on the team to try it - now I ship design and code on one screen with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Zed, and I've shipped several production-ready products this way. The terminal became my friend, not an enemy. Real components and their look-and-feel live in Storybook. I'm growing my own design tool. Bolt is the reach for when a prototype has to ship in a day.

The good tools assume their user is smart. Everything I build starts there.

Most recently I built [AgentPrism](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/debug-ai-fast-agent-prism-open-source-library-visualize-agent-traces) - an open-source React library that turns agent traces into visual debuggers. Tree views, timelines, sequence diagrams. Quotient AI runs it in production. Debug time: four hours down to thirty seconds.

Before that I designed Miru, a graph-native cybersecurity investigation platform - zero to working MVP in seven months, design and frontend end-to-end. And shipped the [GMI Cloud](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/gmi-cloud-meets-webflow-and-speeds-ahead-in-the-ai-compute-race) redesign - 12 pages, 3D visuals, 3.5 weeks.

Open source: I co-created [Harmony](https://evilmartians.com/opensource/harmony) - OKLCH palettes with APCA contrast, now installed across the Figma community.

Off the clock, I'm a music lover - I collect vinyl, catch live shows and festivals, and play everything from bass guitar to modular synths. If there's a festival in town, I'll be there; between sets, I'm digging for records.

## Strengths

### Dev-tool UX

A decade making developer tools that get used, not abandoned.

_Evidence: Two pattern chronicles on evilmartians.com, plus the shipped products in this list._

### AI agent observability

Making agent traces legible. Making debug surfaces fast.

_Evidence: AgentPrism: 4 hours of debugging down to 30 seconds._

### Design + frontend, end-to-end

Most designers who code stop at prototypes. I ship production.

_Evidence: Miru 0 to MVP in 7 months. GMI Cloud in 3.5 weeks._

### AI-augmented delivery

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Zed in the toolchain. Real components in Storybook, Bolt for fast prototypes. The terminal is the workshop now.

_Evidence: Production prototypes, not demos. Weeks, not months._

### Color and accessibility

OKLCH palettes with APCA contrast, baked into design tokens.

_Evidence: Harmony - installed in design files across the Figma community._

### Communicating the craft

Pattern catalogs, dev-tool UX writing, conference talks.

_Evidence: Years of writing on evilmartians.com - not a dropped Substack._

## Contact

Gleb works through Evil Martians. Email: strongeron@evilmartians.com.
Profile: https://evilmartians.com/martians/gleb-stroganov

_A clean Markdown version of every page on this site is available by appending `.md` to its URL. Canonical machine-readable profile: https://glebstroganov.com/about.json._