Kirill V
Kirill V
Father of 3. Designpreneur. UX @ Amazon.
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Kirill Vechtomov is a designer and entrepreneur at Amazon who was born in the USSR, lived in Canada, and now resides in Luxembourg with his family. He writes about UX design, entrepreneurship, and personal experiences to share knowledge, document his journey, and improve his communication skills.
Status: Completed Read year: 2025
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WHO is Kirill V?

My name is Kirill Vechtomov. I am a designer, entrepreneur, writer, podcaster, husband, dad of 3, and just a human being. I was born in the USSR, immigrated to Vancouver 🇨🇦 in 2010, and in 2022, relocated to Luxembourg 🇱🇺, where I live now.

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Some people think I am too crazy adventurous, but I decided that I want to enrich my life with as many experiences, adventures, and memories as I can. Hence, my life-long thirst for exploring new places, getting to know other people, and observing the world around us.

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Entrepreneurship

In my alternative life, I’ve been trying to solve people’s problems (or at least, what I thought their problems were 😆) by building and launching dozens of side projects, producing content, and even dabbling with my own startups. So many mistakes and lessons learned.

UX Career

I've been designing digital experiences since 2005. Startups, small businesses, enterprises, corporations, you name it. Currently, I work at Amazon, mainly helping people and companies selling their products on EU Amazon Marketplaces expand into new markets and grow their businesses.

WHY write?

  1. First, I want to help others learn from my successes and failures learnings =). I am documenting my process, thinking, and key takeaways from my career and business-building endeavours.
  2. Second, I treat it as a journal of my thoughts and entrepreneurial adventures so that my kids and grand-...kids can get to know me better. Perhaps, even for myself - to refresh my memories on the learned lessons and decision-making.
  3. Third, I want to get better at writing words and formulating my thinking, I hear regular writing helps.

WHAT is this newsletter?

Here, I will be capturing my thoughts, ideas, advice, and opinions on a range of topics that I find interesting:

  • Entrepreneurship and building businesses as a UX designer.
  • UX design as a profession, career path, and how to get better at it.

Also, my personal observations while travelling and other topics that make me curious, from everyday problems, productivity tools, and macroeconomics to behavioural psychology, parenting, and survival skills. So, occasionally, there might be some random stuff, too. 😜

All my writing is FREE.

For now, you can become a paid member if you want to:

  • Support me as an indie creator.
  • Help me fund new creative projects so I can share my journey with you.
  • Help me cover the software costs I'm paying to run this website and other projects.

In the meantime, I am also working on adding some premium content.