Aleksandr Legkodumov

Product Lead | Crypto Financial Infrastructure & AI-Native Operations

I turn complex financial infrastructure into products people use - and businesses grow on

I’m a Product Lead with 10 years of building businesses and products - the last 6+ in crypto trading, DeFi, fintech, and AI-native operations. I lead product at Rho Labs from Lisbon.

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Selected outcomes

Results I own

+15%

Conversion to first trade. Led a UX/UI and onboarding refresh across Rho X and related product surfaces.

Rho Labs
5x

Retail trading volume, sustained post-launch. Launched a unified points program and an AI-agent access channel (MCP - Model Context Protocol) across the Rho ecosystem.

Rho Labs
$1M

Cap filled in one week. Launched the Rho LP Vault as a passive-yield product with 13%+ APR.

Rho Labs
3.4x

Online acquiring revenue. Cut bureaucratic steps in SME onboarding and activation, improved UX/UI, and coordinated marketing execution at Tinkoff Business.

Tinkoff Business
5x

Revenue growth. Built a more systematic revenue engine at Immigram across product, sales, marketing, and RevOps.

Immigram

Platform scale

Rho X platform scale as of May 2026

  • $5B Monthly trading volume
  • $100M Open interest
  • $2M TVL (posted collateral)

Company scale These are company-scale metrics; volume is leveraged rate-derivatives notional, so it far exceeds posted collateral (TVL). My work spans product strategy, liquidity, activation, institutional access, and AI-native product operations across the platform.

Selected work

From 0→1 to platform scale

Shipped and measured

UX/UI and onboarding refresh

+15% conversion to first trade

Users kept sending screenshots to support - they needed contextual guidance, not just UI changes.

Shipped and measured

MCP product-access channel

500 downloads in the first week

In interviews, traders said they’d rely on AI to make sense of a product as complex as Rho X. 24 production tools across market data, account state, and order placement and cancellation with safety checks.

Context

Rho Labs builds crypto financial infrastructure across an interest-rate derivatives exchange, LP Vault, a spot RFQ DEX on Canton Network, BitGo off-exchange settlement, and a Perp DEX.

Challenge

More than five product lines competed for the same engineering, BD, marketing, and product capacity. At the same time, Rho X users needed a clearer route through a technically complex product.

What I did

  • Grouped product work around business objectives: liquidity, sustainable trading activity, institutional access, and activation.
  • Sequenced more than five parallel product lines using prioritization, dependencies, launch readiness, and team bandwidth.
  • Launched the LP Vault proposition and led cross-functional execution: product readiness, marketing, investor and partner materials, and sales enablement.
  • Launched 20 RWA reference-rate markets on Rho X.
  • Designed a unified points program across Rho X, LP Vault, Perp DEX, Canton RFQ, and referrals.
  • Led a full UX/UI and onboarding refresh across Rho X.
  • Turned interview demand for AI-guided access into a production MCP channel for AI agents.

Context

StableUnit was moving from an early stablecoin and CDP concept toward a usable multichain product.

Challenge

Shipping was irregular: no discovery cadence, no requirements process, no QA gates - and a founder drowning in follow-ups.

What I did

  • Conducted more than 50 user interviews.
  • Turned findings into product specifications, priorities, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
  • Coordinated design, engineering, QA, marketing, and multichain deployments.
  • Introduced backlog hygiene, OKRs, SCRUM rituals, and QA gates.
  • Built AI-assisted CRM, follow-up, and investor-relations workflows with the founder.

Context

At Tinkoff Business, I progressed from Business Analyst to Senior Product Manager and worked with a cross-functional, 15-developer team across SME banking products and internal systems.

Challenge

The online acquiring journey contained bureaucratic steps that slowed SME onboarding and activation. Product usability and marketing execution also needed to work as one growth system.

Three levers, one result

L1

Cut bureaucratic steps in acquiring onboarding and activation.

L2

Improved UX/UI across the customer journey.

L3

Coordinated product changes with marketing campaigns in a cross-functional growth loop.

3.4x online acquiring revenue.

In parallel, I used interviews and funnel analysis to improve activation in the Website Builder and connected banking journey.

Context

Product specifications, BD materials, research, database notes, and operating knowledge were distributed across files and individual team members.

Challenge

People and AI agents needed shared context, repeatable workflows, and review rules instead of repeated PM explanations and one-off prompting.

What I did

  • Built a GitHub-backed AI product knowledge base.
  • Structured product, BD, research, database, and operating context.
  • Created reusable instructions, skills, MCP runbooks, and review patterns for AI agents.
  • Designed agent-assisted workflows for product planning, documentation, analytics, research, BD, and GTM execution.

How I work

Four operating principles

01

Start with the real constraint

I use interviews, funnel behavior, support patterns, and operational data to identify what is actually blocking user value or business growth.

02

Connect product and business systems

I treat product, engineering, BD, marketing, operations, and risk as one cross-functional execution system. This matters most in complex financial products where a launch is rarely just a feature release.

03

Build reusable operating leverage

I turn successful one-off work into shared context, repeatable workflows, clear decision rules, and tools that a team can reuse.

04

Keep evidence honest

I separate personal outcomes from company scale, confirmed metrics from estimates, and product outputs from business results.

Experience

Ten years: founder, bank, DeFi

Rho Labs

Product Lead

Crypto trading infrastructure, yield products, incentives, institutional access, and AI-native product operations.

StableUnit

Product Lead

0-to-1 stablecoin and CDP product, multichain delivery, user research, and operating cadence.

Pragmatic Fund

Personal on-chain investment project

$100K AUM and 26% APY from an on-chain investment strategy portfolio.

Immigram

Growth Product Lead

Revenue systems, CRM, RevOps, product growth, and a six-person cross-functional team.

Tinkoff Bank

Business Analyst to Senior Product Manager

SME banking, payment acquiring, B2B activation, and enterprise internal systems.

FIKA / FoodNET

Founder and CEO

Built a multi-brand cafe business to 28% profitability, returned $100K in investment, and sold the company.

About

Product leader, hands-on builder

I’m a product leader and hands-on builder based in Lisbon. My work sits where complex financial systems, user behavior, commercial outcomes, and AI-enabled operations meet.

I’ve worked in startups, a large digital bank, DeFi protocols, revenue operations, and my own businesses. Across those environments, the recurring theme has been the same: make complexity understandable, build a repeatable system around it, and connect the work to a measurable outcome.

Outside work: yoga, vintage cars, and a crypto-native retirement plan aimed at long-term financial independence.

Contact

Building something complex?

I’m open to Product Lead, Head of Product, and senior product opportunities where product judgment, technical depth, and business ownership matter. Based in Lisbon - open to on-site, hybrid, or remote.

contact@legkodumov.com @legkodumov