Sergey Guryakov

Independent healthcare UX practice serving pharma, biotech, health tech, and federal clients. I lead engagements end to end: discovery, user research, information architecture, workshops, visual and interaction design, design systems, and developer handoff.

CURRENT AND RECENT ENGAGEMENTS

Avalere Health - UX/UI Consultant, pharma and biotech clients (Aug 2025 - Present)
• Lead UX/UI from research

Held concurrently with my design work: I relocated abroad for my spouse's U.S. diplomatic posting, continued full-time remote design at EngagedMD through Mar 2024, and carried independent client engagements throughout.

Managed community programs, orientation, and family support services for embassy personnel at a hardship post, serving as the primary channel between post leadership and the commun

First designer at the company - built the design function from nothing, supporting 2 co-CEOs and 10+ engineers across a 3-year engagement building HIPAA-regulated patient-journey software used by 400+ fertility clinics.

Hired and onboarded junior product designers, mentored them, and ran critique as the team grew.

Established the core design system - color, typography, icons, component library -

Worked as UX Instructor at CareerFoundry.

- Led and mentored a cross-functional team of 8, aligning on goals, KPIs, and delivery timelines to ensure both user needs and business priorities were met

- Designed end-to-end experiences - user journeys, flows, wireframes, and specs - for complex web and mobile products in highly regulated industries

- Drove UX strategy through research, stakeholder alignment, and user testing, translating in

Worked as Senior User Experience Designer at Wunderman DC.

"Sergey’s UX expertise and communication skills make him a huge value to RTC. Universally loved by his clients, he brings innovation and creativity to all the projects that he works on, and provides the Creative team with state-of-the-art thought leadership. Despite his grumpy-cat façade, Sergey passionately engrosses himself in his projects, and the latest innovations in the digital space, and br

Designed and themed CMS-driven sites for federal and commercial clients, including the redesign and 2012 launch of oig.hhs.gov (HHS Office of Inspector General) as a contract designer, and an online exhibit for the National Archives (archives.gov); built pattern libraries that improved consistency and client self-sufficiency

Worked as Senior UI Designer at Blue Water Media.

Created an identity for iMoondo.com
Designed and developed the front end of the site.