Time & attendance system for a group with thousands of employees
Designed the scheduling module in MyTime — the time & attendance system for the Astana Motors group with thousands of employees.
Zhandos Baltash
Product Designer
About
Product designer with 5+ years of experience taking digital products from concept to scale. I design based on research, data and systems thinking.
I build design systems, work closely with engineering and integrate AI into the design workflow. My focus is products that solve real problems and deliver measurable business value.
Projects
HR e-document workflow for a group with thousands of employees
I design the group's HR e-document system: staffing structure, vacation schedules, requests and orders signed digitally — the Astana Motors group's HR documents.
The platform core: single sign-on, employee profiles and access
Designing the MyLink core: single sign-on, the employee profile and the directory — the data and permissions the group's other products stand on.
Experience
Product Designer
- – Lead design of four HR products for the group — HRM, WTM, HR e-docs and the mobile app — used daily by thousands of Astana Motors employees, from factory shifts to the dealer network.
- – Curator of a design system spanning 7 products: moved the team to a single source of truth for tokens and components; documentation lives in GitHub, structured for working with AI.
- – Built a Figma plugin that catches deviations from the design system before handoff.
- – Ran 6 studies (interviews, usability tests, a survey of 38 HR staff and managers) — their findings shaped WTM's schedule builder and attendance analytics.
- – Take solutions through to production: dev/QA specs and a design review of every release.
- – WTM replaced Clockster across the Astana Motors group and launched on the external market.
Product Designer
- – Owned product design for Adata's B2B/B2G services (counterparty due diligence, procurement analytics, compliance) — from research to release; temporarily acted as the team's design lead.
- – Designed dense, data-heavy interfaces: tables with 100k+ rows, advanced filters, saved views, bulk actions and dashboards for government and enterprise clients.
- – Evolved and maintained the shared design system: extended the token and component library, kept patterns and documentation up to date.
- – Ran the discovery cycle: problems, JTBD, hypothesis validation — through to handing validated solutions to development.
UX/UI Designer
- – Owned UX/UI design of B2C mobile apps — from user flows and prototypes to final screens.
- – Designed mobile flows around iOS/Android guidelines, navigation patterns and gestures.
- – Built and maintained a visual system: base tokens, components and states reused across screens.
Product Designer
- – UX/UI design of fintech products for mobile and web: user flows, wireframes, prototypes and final interfaces.
- – Created and maintained UI kits; produced graphics for marketing and brand touchpoints.
- – Ran design QA for releases and prepared App Store / Google Play assets.
UX/UI Designer
- – UX/UI design of studio web projects across industries — from prototypes and client sign-off to development handoff.
- – Worked in cross-functional teams — product managers, developers, clients — aligning design decisions with business goals and technical feasibility.
Education
Information Technology
Focus on AI
Information Systems
Focus on general engineering fundamentals
Certificates
Skills / tools
Languages
KazakhNative
RussianFluent
EnglishC1