Sasha Kudymov

These days I’m a Staff Designer at Broadcom[1]. Before that, I designed at VMware[2] and Acronis[3]. Say hi by email or browse my code on GitHub.

Designer and engineer. Professionally curious, productively lazy. I seek out complex problems, then refuse to solve them the long way.

Work

  1. Broadcom[1]

    Staff Designer (Sep 2025 – now), Staff Designer and Design Manager (mid 2024 – Sep 2025), Design Manager (Nov 2023 – mid 2024)

    Releases

    1. May 2026 VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Fleet Lifecycle: one control plane that upgrades the shared management components across the whole fleet.
    2. Jun 2025 vSphere in VCF 9.0 All lifecycle features: direct upgrades from 8.0, wider Live Patch, mixed-vendor images, batch remediation and scheduled Reduced Downtime Update.
  2. VMware[2]

    Design Manager

    Acquired by Broadcom in November 2023[5]; the team and the work continued under the new name.

    Releases

    1. Jul 2024 vSphere 8.0 Update 3 Dual DPU, ESXi Live Patching and vCenter Reduced Downtime Update.
  3. Acronis[3]

    Design Director

    Releases

    1. May 2023 EDR for Acronis Cyber Protect Endpoint detection and response with AI-based attack analysis, inside the same agent as backup.
    2. May 2020 Acronis Cyber Protect Backup, disaster recovery, anti-malware and endpoint management in one service for MSPs.
    3. Aug 2019 Acronis True Image 2020 Dual Protection: local backups replicated to the cloud automatically, the 3-2-1 rule without the chores.
    4. Aug 2018 Acronis True Image 2019 Survival Kit: one external drive that boots, restores the system and holds the backups.
    5. Aug 2017 Acronis True Image 2018 AI-based Active Protection against ransomware, on Windows and, for the first time, on Mac.
    6. Jan 2017 Acronis True Image 2017 New Generation The first personal backup with real-time anti-ransomware and blockchain-based file notarization.

Pet projects

  1. Parlay[4]

    Intent-first design toolkit

    Parlays user dialogues into shareable prototypes and living specifications. Intents become dialogs, dialogs become artifacts, artifacts become tested code, and the spec stays true to the software it describes.

  2. Block Printing

    Native macOS app

    Turns a drawing into a 3D-printable relief block for hand printing: tonal split, contour tracing, wall drafting, an optional counterform, and tiling for blocks bigger than the printer. The geometry kernel is the one part Parlay doesn’t generate; it’s built with an agent against its own spec, and the rest of the app is generated from the feature specs.

References

  1. ^ Broadcom Inc. broadcom.com
  2. ^ VMware, now part of Broadcom. vmware.com
  3. ^ Acronis. acronis.com
  4. ^ Parlay on GitHub. github.com/ddwht/parlay
  5. ^ Broadcom, “Broadcom Completes Acquisition of VMware”, 22 November 2023. broadcom.com