Murder On The Dancefloor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Read My Lips
Madrid
I'm Elena.
I lead product at Arrive.
Managing engineers, customers, and building agent loops and graphs to make every person in my team more efficient.
I'm Elena.
I lead product at Arrive.
Managing engineers, customers, and building agent loops and graphs to make every person in my team more efficient.
Achievements
Thesis
1,600+ downloads, cited internationally
Friends of Figma
Founder of FoF Remote Designers
Independent researcher
Part-time researcher with 100K readers
Technical reviewer
Technical reviewer on published books
Hackathon judge
Judged multiple hackathons
In the press
Bridging the gap between AI innovation and user-centered design
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Elena Gonci's inclusive approach to fintech development
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Elena Gonci built AI that's transforming financial technology
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Transforming design leadership and building global communities
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Bridging the gap between AI innovation and user-centered design
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Elena Gonci's inclusive approach to fintech development
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Elena Gonci built AI that's transforming financial technology
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Transforming design leadership and building global communities
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Bridging the gap between AI innovation and user-centered design
Read the article
Elena Gonci's inclusive approach to fintech development
Read the article
Elena Gonci built AI that's transforming financial technology
Read the article
Transforming design leadership and building global communities
Read the article
Bridging the gap between AI innovation and user-centered design
Read the article
Elena Gonci's inclusive approach to fintech development
Read the article
Elena Gonci built AI that's transforming financial technology
Read the article
Transforming design leadership and building global communities
Read the article
Bridging the gap between AI innovation and user-centered design
Read the article
Elena Gonci's inclusive approach to fintech development
Read the article
Elena Gonci built AI that's transforming financial technology
Read the article
Transforming design leadership and building global communities
Read the article
Bridging the gap between AI innovation and user-centered design
Read the article
Elena Gonci's inclusive approach to fintech development
Read the article
Elena Gonci built AI that's transforming financial technology
Read the article
Transforming design leadership and building global communities
Read the article
Superpower nº1
Building the leverage, not just using it.
Building and running an autonomous agent fleet: a hybrid workforce of humans and agents shipping into the same production codebase.
QA agent loop
295 PRs merged to production at 85% acceptance, Jun to Aug 2026
Ayyva LMS
RAG assistant unifying the knowledgebase, financials, and team metrics
Automated release notes
weekly, zero manual effort
Built for a vertical accounting-practice SaaS platform.
Superpower nº2
Shipping production code, not just specs.
Owning the onboarding and AI repos as an individual contributor, not just a coordinator.
131 PRs authored, 109 merged
266 commits in Arrive, 264 in the last 90 days
20 active personal repos
onboarding tooling, advisory formulas sandbox, arrive lms chatbot, and more
Advisory formulas engine
verified at 45 of 45 golden tests
Built for a vertical accounting-practice SaaS platform.
Superpower nº3
Running a real delivery team, not just my own work.
Managing engineers directly, and an autonomous agent fleet, inside the same delivery system. Humans and agents on one board.
1,404 tickets coordinated
on the roadmap board, 710 of them bugs
804 feature behaviors specified
763 passing baseline, a 95% pass rate
20.4h median from filed to merged
in production, 72% ship within 48 hours
Superpower nº4
Driving insights from Customer Success.
After feeling the manual onboarding pain firsthand, built the tooling that automated it. And still running it.
Onboarding tooling
built it, own it, run it
22 firms onboarded
200+ power users across firms of 5 to 15 people
Time to onboard
from 60 to 90 days down to 14 to 30
Built for a vertical accounting-practice SaaS platform.
Venture studio & portfolio work
Work spanning 2019 to 2025
AI-powered mobile inventory system. Shipped a complex module in 5 weeks by breaking traditional design handoffs.
Design system + AI-powered implementation that cut product delivery time 50% across the entire venture portfolio.
Mobile app aggregating independent restaurant deliveries, bypassing platforms like Uber and DoorDash.
UX/UI design for self-service kiosks across Spain and Portugal.
PEST analysis turning governmental and internal data into a strategic roadmap for a creative studio.
Connected private chefs with celebrity clients.
LinkedIn meets Tinder: swipe-based matching between students and employers.
Custom event-builder platform for an event company, like Eventbrite with heavy AI and workflow automation.
Platform for a golfing facility.
Attorneys bid on cases so clients could competitively choose their lawyer.
Mattress management for hotels, with tax advantages for sustainability.
Education for founders from real investors, guiding them through the equity journey.
A golf app to play golf and share it, social media built for golfers.
Home device management and support for luxury brands.
I love whiteboardingViewPlaygroundMy personal gallery. Random stuff I've done and things I like.
Then
Starting as a product designer, shipping 0 to 1 products end to end. The seat kept widening on its own: research, then prototypes, then the roadmap, then the product itself.
Now
Head of Product, leading an 18-person cross-functional team. Shipping production code, running the team's operating system, talking to customers directly, and building the AI infrastructure that makes everyone around me faster.
Return to my perfect form: ideal weight (18kg), glass skin, 12h of sleep, and not a single gray hair.