Aleksandr Legkodumov

Product Lead | Crypto Financial Infrastructure & AI-Native Operations

I turn complex financial infrastructure into products people can use, teams can ship, and businesses can grow.

I am a Product Lead with 6+ years across crypto trading, DeFi, fintech, 0-to-1 products, and AI-native operations. I currently lead product work at Rho Labs from Lisbon.

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Platform scale

Rho X platform scale as of May 2026

  • $5B Monthly trading volume
  • $100M Open interest
  • $2M TVL

Company scale These are company-scale metrics. My work spans product strategy, liquidity, activation, institutional access, and AI-native product operations across the platform.

Selected outcomes

Personal product results

$1M

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

Rho Labs
5x

Sustainable retail trading volume. Designed and launched a unified points program across the Rho ecosystem.

Rho Labs
+15%

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

Rho Labs
5x

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

Immigram
3.4x

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

Tinkoff Business

Selected work

Four cases

Shipped and measured

UI / UX and onboarding refresh

+15% conversion to first trade

Insight source: user interviews and repeated screenshot-based support requests showed that users needed contextual guidance, not only interface changes.

Defined and validated

MCP product-access channel

24 production tools validated

Market data, account state, and safe place / cancel order workflows. Not attributed to the 15% conversion result.

Context

Rho Labs builds crypto financial infrastructure across an interest-rate exchange, LP Vault, points, an 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 impact, dependencies, launch readiness, and team bandwidth.
  • Launched the LP Vault proposition and coordinated product readiness, marketing, investor and partner materials, and sales enablement.
  • Designed a unified points program across Rho X, LP Vault, Perp DEX, Canton RFQ, and referrals.
  • Led a full UI / UX and onboarding refresh across Rho X and related product surfaces.
  • Used interviews and repeated screenshot-based support requests to identify that users needed contextual guidance, not only interface changes.
  • Turned that insight into a production MCP product-access channel and validated 24 tools across market data, account state, and safe place / cancel order workflows.

Context

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

Challenge

Discovery, requirements, delivery cadence, QA, and founder follow-up workflows needed to become one operating system.

What I did

  • Conducted more than 50 user interviews.
  • Turned findings into product specifications, priorities, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
  • Coordinated design, engineering, QA, releases, and multichain deployments.
  • Introduced backlog hygiene, OKRs, delivery 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 15-developer team across SME banking products and internal systems.

Challenge

The internet-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.

3.4x internet 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 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 agent instructions, skills, MCP runbooks, and review patterns.
  • Designed workflows for product planning, documentation, analytics, research, BD, and GTM execution.

How I work

How I work

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 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

Experience

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

Co-founder and CEO, Personal Capital 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

About

I am 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 have 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, I practice yoga, care about vintage cars, write the Satisfaction Telegram channel, and think about long-term financial independence through a crypto-native retirement plan.

Contact

Building a complex financial or AI-native product?

I am open to Product Lead, Head of Product, and senior product opportunities where product judgment, technical depth, and business ownership matter.

alexander.legko@gmail.com Telegram @legkodumov