01
2019
Building a distributed R&D center from zero
Stood up Clicktale's Kyiv engineering center with Ciklum, recruiting 14 developers and 3 team leads, and built the cross-site processes that let Israel and Ukraine ship as one team.
Tag
Distributed Teams
1 post · 2 projects
Work
02
2012
From team lead to building a site abroad
Grew from leading a team of four on the core trading platform to founding TradeNetworks' Sofia engineering site in 2012, hiring and training it to our bar to deliver CRM and billing end to end.
Posts
7 min readSame number, two cultures, opposite meaning
HR's pulse survey scored me as a bad manager. Three minutes with the team proved the questions were aiming at someone else. The real finding: headquarters and I had spent two years grading the same team with each other's rulers.