Andrius Matšenas

Product Designer Lumela

Sep 2023 – Present

• Freelance web and UI/UX design for startups and SMEs.
• Over 16,000 monthly visits to websites and apps I’ve built.

Co-Founder Multiple startups

Sep 2023 – May 2026

• Prototyped novel product ideas from decentralized payments to AI-native consumer apps.

Data Product Manager Cachet

May 2023 – Aug 2023

• Explored product development in insurance-tech.

Product Analyst NFTPort

Aug 2022 – Jan 2023

• Measured, validated and iterated Web3 infrastructure products.
• Built KPI dashboards for leadership and synthesized insights from millions of API requests.

Co-Founder Stardust Network

Jul 2020 – Aug 2022

• Developed a browser extension that eliminates all cookie pop-ups, with the mission of giving people control over their personal data.
• Grew to over 10,000 users in under 6 months.

Co-Founder Arwin

Dec 2019 – Jul 2020

• Developed an affordable water quality monitor using spectroscopy and AI to prevent people from having serious health issues.

Data Science Intern Cachet

Dec 2019 – Apr 2020

• Built machine learning models for an insurance-tech startup.

Mentor, Organizer & Board Member Hüppelaud

Jul 2020 – Present

• The largest and longest-running youth hackathon series in Estonia.
• Led 2 summer- and 1 winter technology entrepreneurship schools for over 150 teens nationwide.
• Secured over €70,000 in public and private funding for the organization.

Mathematics Teacher Tallinna Prantsuse Lütseum

Feb 2024 – May 2024

• Helped 13 students ace their national exams with exceptional results.

Public Speaker Pint of Science UK

May 2021

• Spoke about the digital infrastructure of Estonia and its implications for society to a live virtual audience of over 400 people.

Judge, Estonian High School Debating Championships Estonian Debating Society

Dec 2020

AMA Research & Support The Global Hack

Apr 2020

• Wrote thought-provoking AMA questions for experts in fields from mental health to venture capital with an international team.

MSc Human-Computer Interaction University of Maryland

Aug 2026 – Jun 2028

• Selected for the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, the flagship international educational exchange program of the United States.

BSc Mathematics with Actuarial Science University of Southampton

2019 – 2022

• Bachelor’s thesis on applying network science to Estonia’s X-Road data, featured by the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions and presented at the 2023 X-Road Community Event.

A-levels Bosworth Independent School

2017 – 2019

• Studied Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Physics.

General Education Tallinna Prantsuse Lütseum

2008 – 2017

Finalist – Mathematical Contest in Modeling COMAP

Apr 2020

• Ranked in the top 2% of 3,851 teams worldwide.

1st Prize – CMI Machine Learning Hackathon SparkCognition

Nov 2019

• Built a prototype water quality tester predicting properties like colour and cloudiness with 90% accuracy using near-infrared LEDs and AI; first place among 300 participants.

Senior Mathematical Challenge

2018

1st Prize – Harry and Margaret Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Learning

2018

Google UX Design Specialization Google

Nov 2024

• Includes Foundations of UX Design; Empathize, Define & Ideate; Wireframes & Low-Fidelity Prototypes; UX Research & Testing; High-Fidelity Designs in Figma; Dynamic UIs for Websites.

Certified Golf Croquet Referee Chiltern Croquet Academy

May 2024

X-Road® Fundamentals Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions

Dec 2021

Bloomberg Market Concepts – Core Concepts Bloomberg LP

May 2020