About
Throughout my journey from coding to design, I've been guided by a simple belief: technology should feel natural and intuitive. At the crossroads of AI, Web3, and Finance, I focus on creating user experiences that make complex ideas accessible.
Currently, I'm leading product design at a stealth AI startup that's rethinking how we interact with money. I'm also steering the design team at Vela Exchange, a decentralized platform for perpetual trading. As a co-founder, designer, and developer at Swoop Exchange, I've helped build a meta-aggregation engine used daily by thousands of users.
Across all the applications I've been involved with, I've had the privilege to contribute in facilitating billions in transaction volume. I believe in making technology feel human—designing applications and experiences that are seamless extensions of ourselves, serving real needs with simplicity and clarity.
Experience
Aug 2024 — Present
Founding Designer & Head of Product Design • Stealth AI Startup
Establishing and leading the design team for a Stealth AI Startup set to bring the New Era of Money. My role involves founding and leading the design team, setting the vision and standards for design excellence, direct branding and actively contributing to hands-on product design for going to market.
Mar 2024 — Present
Head of Product Design • Vela Exchange
Designer and Front-end Developer
Leading the design team for Vela Exchange, a community-first, decentralized perpetuals trading platform. My role involves setting the vision and standards for design excellence, and actively contributing to hands-on product design.
Feb 2022 — Presents
Co-founder, Designer & Developer • Swoop Exchange
Co-founded, designed, and developed a Next-Gen Decentralized Exchange from MVP to launch, scaling from zero to over $10M in trading volume. Swoop Exchange is powered by a novel Meta-Aggregation Engine that leverages sophisticated routing algorithms and APIs to automatically route trades from the most profitable liquidity sources, vastly improving swap efficiency and user experience.
Aug 2016 — Mar 2024
Head of QA • Lykomitros Steel
Quality Assurance Engineer
QA/QC Administrative Support
Lead the QA department, focusing on renewable energy components in steel manufacturing. Maintained industry and client standards, ensuring product integrity for renewable energy.
Nov 2013 - May 2014
Digital Systems Admin - Internship • OTE Group (HTO)
Gained valuable experience in digital systems administration, focusing on the management of contractors and capital.
Projects
Vela Exchange - Product Design
Led a team of 4 designers, implementing design systems and processes to launch flagship features like Duels, Accounts, Loyalty Tiers, and Notification Tray and System.
L3X Network - Founding Product Design
L3X Network is a Layer 3 interoperability blockchain designed to provide institutions, developers, and users with secure, compliant, and efficient access to decentralized finance (DeFi) markets. My role involved founding and leading the design team, mapping UX, and designing the protocol's Landing Page and Interfaces for the Bridge, Trading, Swap, and Staking platforms.
Swoop Exchange - Landing Page
Swoop's landing page highlights the platform's use cases and solutions. Swoop Exchange is a Meta-DEX Aggregator that automatically sources, ranks and routes quotes from the best DEX Aggregators and Bridges, ensuring the best prices for on-chain and cross-chain swaps. Swoop Exchange has achieved millions in USD volume and currently has around 4000 monthly users with 0 paid marketing.
Swoop Exchange - Application Design
Swoop Exchange is a next generation Meta Decentralized Exchange and Bridge Aggregator. By Aggregating the Aggregators, Bridges, and Liquidity across chains, and off-chain it solves protocol and liquidity fragmentation, significantly improving UX. Provides access to: 450,000+ Tokens, 7+ Aggregators, 13+ Bridges, 50+ DEXs, 280+ Liquidity Sources and 16+ Blockchains.
meikopoulos.com
The portfolio webpage you are looking at right now. Based on Brittany Chiang's website (they awesome). Coded in Visual Studio Code.
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Based on Brittany Chiang's website (they awesome). Coded in Visual Studio Code. Built with Next.js, Tailwind CSS and Shadcn/ui, deployed with Vercel.