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Eleonora Manolova

Eleonora Manolova

Enterprise Product Designer

Designing systems for people who can't afford to get it wrong - virtual administrators managing infrastructure where one unclear workflow can break production for thousands of users.

Translating backend constraints, API limitations, and architectural dependencies into experiences that feel clear and safe, even when the underlying system is anything but. The work is grounded in research, shaped by technical reality, and measured by whether people can move through complex systems with confidence.

Now looking to bring that same rigor into new problem spaces, where the systems are different, but the need for clarity, precision and trust remains exactly the same.

Focus Areas

Enterprise Platform UX

Governance & Lifecycle Architecture

Upgrade Orchestration & Compatibility Systems

Distributed Systems Constraint Translation

Advanced Data Workflows & Filtering Logic

Risk Mitigation & Operational Safeguards

Technical User Research (Enterprise Admins & DevOps)

Cross-Functional Design in High-Ambiguity Environments

Selected Work

Designing workflows and system interfaces for complex operational environments.

Enterprise Data Grid Filtering Framework

vSphere Platform – Enterprise Infrastructure

Designed and implemented a scalable filtering framework deployed across core application views, enabling advanced logical combinations and structured multi-condition queries within a complex infrastructure environment.

Balanced expert-level flexibility with platform and framework constraints while preserving performance stability and interaction predictability at scale.

Deployed broadly across the platform.

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Cluster Image Lifecycle & Compatibility Management

vSphere Platform - Enterprise Infrastructure - Distributed Cluster Environments

Designing administrative workflows for managing system images across heterogeneous clusters, enabling administrators to detect compatibility issues, investigate hardware conflicts, and safely execute infrastructure updates.

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Async Supervisor Upgrades & Decoupled Infrastructure Workflows

vSphere Platform – Enterprise Kubernetes Infrastructure – Platform Operators & DevOps Teams

Redesigning upgrade workflows to decouple Kubernetes (Supervisor) updates from vCenter releases, enabling platform teams to adopt new Kubernetes versions faster while maintaining infrastructure stability. Introducing system-level visibility, upgrade path clarity, and trust-driven UX for high-risk operations in complex enterprise environments.

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Professional Experience

VMware (vSphere Platform)

Product Designer

2021 – 2026 · Remote

Designed and evolved complex infrastructure workflows serving enterprise administrators and DevOps operators in distributed, high-scale environments.

Led execution of interaction architecture, cross-platform audits and usability validation for governance, filtering and upgrade orchestration systems.

Collaborated closely with frontend and backend engineering to align UX decisions with evolving API constraints and system limitations.

All major initiatives fully implemented and deployed across the platform.

No Zebra

User Experience Designer

2021 · Aarhus, Denmark

Contributed to scalable B2B and B2C systems through atomic design principles, high-fidelity interaction flows and structured discovery cycles within cross-functional agency teams.

Approach

Design decisions are grounded in:

– Technical feasibility awareness

– Architectural constraint modeling

– Mental model alignment for expert users

– Risk containment and operational safeguards

– Research-driven validation

– Selective use of AI-assisted tools for research synthesis and exploratory analysis, with careful consideration of data sensitivity and the limitations of automated reasoning in complex system design

Experience working within environments where ambiguity is high, documentation is incomplete and constraints emerge mid-process.

Availability

Open to platform-focused and infrastructure-oriented product roles across enterprise or high-scale SaaS environments.

Advanced Data Grid Filtering Framework Cluster Image Lifecycle & Compatibility ManagementAsync Supervisor Upgrades & Decoupled Infrastructure Workflows