Maria Kasianova
Product Management
Four years in behavioral research and five years in software engineering, now bringing both perspectives into product management, with a focus on AI and human-AI interaction.
Experience
Software Engineering
5 years
Built products in fintech and marketing technology, collaborating across product, design, and engineering while contributing to estimation, prioritization, and delivery tradeoffs.
Behavioral Research
4 years
Studied motivation, adaptation, learning, and decision making through research design and quantitative analysis.
Featured project
Psychosocial Safety Auditor
for AI Chatbots
An open-source evaluation system for identifying psychosocial risks in multi-turn conversations with companion and wellness AI.
Experimental v1 released · validation ongoing
The broader product addresses psychosocial safety. The current experimental v1 evaluates relational sycophancy: unsupported reinforcement of a user’s interpretation of another person or relationship.
About
I started my career in behavioral research, studying how people learn, adapt, stay motivated, and make decisions.
Later, I moved into software engineering and spent five years building products in fintech and marketing technology.
Over time, I realized that the work I was most drawn to was not only implementation. It was understanding what should be built, why it mattered, what tradeoffs we were making, and how technical decisions affected the people using the product.
That is why product management feels like the role where the two halves of my background meet.