Yashar Asheri

Yashar Asheri

Developer & Designer
Montreal, CA.

About

crypto native designer (10+ year exp)
prev. lead design @ kwenta(acquired), snx, consensys

Work

Cardinal Labs
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Design & Research

Summary

Product design, prototyping, payoff & risk modeling, investor materials, BD and market research.

Panoptic
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Product, UX

Consulting

Summary

• Led the full product redesign and UX for an on-chain options liquidity protocol, spanning trader workflows, LP risk modeling, and advanced market dashboards. • Designed core trading interfaces for options LP positions, multi-leg payoff visualization, risk exposure, and fee attribution. • Product-led the new structured vaults offering, defining user flows, risk disclosures, and performance visualization for passive options strategies. • Served as the cross-functional bridge between quant research, UI/UX systems, and go-to-market strategy.

Kwenta
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Lead Designer

Summary

Owned end-to-end product (desktop & mobile), brand, and a reusable design system for Kwenta's on-chain perps DEX. Drove feature specs with pm/engineering on onboarding, A/B-led UX improvements, and launched collateral across web, docs and socials. Supported FE team with production polish and visual debt.

Highlights

Scaled across Base, Optimism & Arbitrum; later integrated Perennial and GMX.

121B+ cumulative volume (DeFiLlama; aggregator methodology) — historically the most dominant front-end integrator (~98% share).

Acquired by Synthetix.

Consensys
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Front-End Engineer

Summary

Contributed to the development of a crypto subscription economy platform, focusing on non-custodial smart contract wallets and payment systems via EIP-1337

Highlights

Utilized a modern tech stack including Web3, Docker, React.js, Ganache, Truffle, TypeScript, Material UI, EthVTX, and Redux to build robust and scalable features.

Collaborated on the design and implementation of user interfaces for easy management of crypto assets and subscriptions.

SEG Consulting Inc.
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Designer & Developer

Brave New World ~ Future Tech Studio
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Designer & Developer

Education

BrainStation
Toronto, ON, Canada

Certificate

Full-Stack Web Development

NSCAD
Halifax, NS, Canada

BDes

Interdisciplinary Design

Skills

Dev

React, Angular, Ionic, SASS, Material UI, Storybook, Redux, Webpack, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Ganache, Truffle, EthVTX, Node, Express, MongoDB, Docker.

Design

UX, UI, Product Design, Web Design, UI/UX Feasibility, Wireframing, Prototyping, Motion Design, Brand Identity.

Awards

Bounty: Create a novel, DAI based lending platform.

Awarded By

MakerDAO @ ETH Denver

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