Mike Piechota · Product designer
About ten years in product design, including five years as the first and only product designer on MetaRouter's platform, a US data-infrastructure startup. I design and ship with Claude Code and Codex.
Based in Poland (CET), working remotely with US teams
Selected work
US data-infrastructure startup · the control interface for customers' deployed clusters
Pricing and market-analysis tool for US listing agents
Independent product · a dough planner that starts from the flour you actually have
How I work
At MetaRouter I worked daily with product managers on static and interactive prototypes, then refined them with engineering and the customer team.
With MetaRouter's customer team I gathered user feedback, product analytics and session replays, and used them in design decisions.
MetaRouter's design system sat on Material Design and was shared across Figma, React and Storybook, built in close collaboration with engineering. I packaged my design guidance as a Claude Code skill so everyone always had the latest version.
I build working products with Claude Code and Codex, and I review and test what the agents write. On Kompmodo the engineer and I reviewed each other's pull requests.
At MetaRouter I worked with Growth on sales decks that turned complex technical concepts into coherent stories, and with Marketing on the website and campaigns.
Contractor, then Creative Director · MetaRouter
Contractor from February 2021, Creative Director from November 2021. First and only product designer for the cluster-management control interface. Design system in close collaboration with engineering. Rebrand, Webflow marketing site, explainer video.
Product design and build · Kompmodo · Pandough
Kompmodo v2 for its owners, who bought the IP. Pandough, my own product, since November 2025.
Senior Designer and Illustrator · Redstamp Agency
Product Designer · Netguru
Explained complex technology through concise illustration, partnered with UI and UX designers on end-to-end experiences, ran webinars and workshops for co-workers.
Designer · Freelance
Product design and wireframing, branding, illustration and style guides for clients around the world.
The five layers
Every product people rely on is a stack of decisions. Most teams split that stack across five roles. Here is what sits inside it.
Layer 01
Who is it for, and what do they really need?
Layer 02
What should we build first, and what can wait?
Layer 03
How should it look, feel and work?
Layer 04
Does it actually work in real life?
Layer 05
Will people find it, trust it and choose it?
The whole stack
Inside MetaRouter's product team, with Kompmodo's owners and engineer, and on my own product, Pandough.
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