Maksim Surguy

Location: Federal Way, WA, USA

Current/Most Recent Company/Position: Principal Design Technologist - AI Design Tools, Zillow; Previous: Amazon, NBC News

Background/interest areas/expertise: Robotics, ML / AI, Innovation (patents, prototypes, experiments), UX / UI, Design, Project Management, Lean startups

Maksim (Maks) Surguy is a Design Technologist at Zillow who excels at working within multidisciplinary teams. The work that Maks especially enjoys involves technology concept development, prototyping (digital and/or physical), user research, and making software tools for computational artists. Originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, Maks now lives in Washington State with his wife and two children.