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Sergejs Skusovs

Software your engineers won’t hate building – and your users won’t have to think about.

Making complex things behave. Against their will.

About

Sergejs Skusovs

I design award-winning software for situations where mistakes are expensive.

Emergency dispatch systems, healthcare platforms, national-scale services – for the past 19+ years, I’ve been working at the intersection of design, engineering, and product leadership.

Currently I'm focusing on accessible design systems, UX, and making sure large teams don’t accidentally reinvent the same bad button 13 times.

This is where to find me

Some more info

Stuff I like
Places I've been to

Résumé

Positions I'm interested in

  • Design Lead
  • UX Designer
  • Product Designer
  • UX Consultant

Current roles

Dativa

Sep 2020 – present
UX & Accessibility Lead

State Emergency Medical Service of Latvia

Sep 2020 – present
Systems Analyst

Previous roles

Meditec

Aug 2010 – Apr 2020
Senior Solutions Architect

MediCloud

Sep 2016 – Feb 2017
Founder, Chairman of the Board, CTO

Datorikas Institūts DIVI

Aug 2007 – May 2010
Programmer

Education

California Institute of the Arts

Jul 2021 – Aug 2021
UI/UX Design Specialization

Google Career Certificates

Apr 2021 – Aug 2021
UX Design Professional Certificate (7 Courses)

E-sabiedrības risinājumi

May 2017
EU General Data Protection Regulation specialist course

University of Latvia

Sep 2006 – May 2010
Bachelor’s studies in Software Engineering (unfinished)

Baltic Computer Academy

Jun 2008
MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist): SQL Server 2005

University of Latvia

Sep 2006 – May 2008
Programming, first-level professional higher education (eq. Associate degree)

Jaunogre Secondary School

Sep 1994 – Jun 2006
Primary and Secondary education

Awards

  • Platīna Pele

    Nov 2023
    Digital government transformation of 2023
    for VIDDIS

  • Platīna Pele

    Dec 2021
    Digital government transformation of 2021
    for Digital COVID certificate: Latvia

  • Āriņa balva

    May 2015
    Award for practical contribution to IT through innovative and socially relevant solutions

Design

  • Accessibility
  • Design systems
  • Product design
  • System analysis
  • UX strategy
  • Interaction design
  • Product discovery
  • UX research

Leadership

  • Design leadership
  • Technical leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Product strategy
  • Public speaking
  • Stakeholder facilitation
  • Team building

Engineering

  • Frontend architecture
  • HTML + CSS
  • Software architecture
  • Vue.js
  • APIs & integrations
  • Automated testing
  • C# / .NET
  • Mobile app development

Domain Expertise

  • Emergency dispatch
  • Healthcare systems
  • Mission-critical software
  • Public-sector systems
  • Digital identity
  • FHIR / HL7

Languages

  • English
  • Latvian
  • Russian
  • Portuguese
  • French

My Work

Currently UX & Accessibility

At the moment I work with Dativa – one of Latvia's biggest software developer companies – being their UX & Accessibility Expert and also leading an awesome design team there.

We're working on implementing proper design process, developing LX/UI and overseeing design decisions for various projects.

Currently Public Speech

I often speak publicly about UX, Accessibility, LX/UI and my other projects at conferences, universities and community events.

Inside Dativa, I also host a recurring podcast discussing UX practice, design process, and lessons learned from real product work.

2011–present Emy

While working at Meditec I've participated in designing, developing and managing the development of essential award winning dispatch software for Emergency Medical Services of Latvia – Emy. Eventually I became Emy's product owner, leading its growth and evolution to bring fast, secure and mobile work place for Emergency Medical.

In 2020 I took a position of System Analyst at Emergency Medical Services of Latvia, continuing to oversee Emy's development from client's side leading it into new era with modern technologies, integrations and AI.

2020–2022 The Pandemic

During the Pandemic, I worked on several Latvia-wide government projects that supported essential services and public health response efforts. I designed and helped build SAIRIS, an application providing a centralized view of hospital workload data across all Latvian hospitals, and contributed to ManaVakcina.lv, the country’s vaccination booking platform. I was also part of the team delivering Latvia’s COVID-19 certificate, among the earliest implementations in Europe.

2014–2020 eHealthPoint

I was a founder, product owner and lead programmer for eHealthPoint – a startup that began as an app helping to provide your precise location when calling for an Ambulance (crazy times before AML) and grew to offer healthcare bookings, EHR, paying hospital bills among other features for over 100K active users in Latvia.

Featured Projects

DigiVes
Latvian Digital Health workplaces for medical professionals
LX/UI
Powerful component library for Vue.js developers and designers
Emy
Dispatch for Latvia's Emergency Medical Services and more
Nau vērc
Time
Villager Birthdays
Ne Čau!
SAIRIS
eHealthPoint
Time to Run
LexAtomic
Digimaks
EU Digital Identity Wallet App
Digital COVID Certificate: Latvia
EU digital certificate for the National Health Service of the Republic of Latvia
Lietvaris
Skudra
EIKIS
VIDDIS
Ogre 90 logo
EUDIW: Latvia
ABX
Latvija.gov.lv