Description

I help product, engineering, design and cross-functional teams reduce delivery friction caused by unclear ownership, weak handovers, messy requirements, overloaded leads, or fragmented communication.

I work best with small- to mid-sized teams that need more structure but do not yet need or cannot justify a full-time hire for delivery, operations, or management.

Typical situations I support:

- work is moving, but priorities, scope, or ownership are unclear

- too much coordination sits in one founder, lead, or senior IC

- product, design, and engineering handovers create rework

- meetings happen, but decisions and follow-through remain vague

- new leads need support and coaching in better 1:1, feedback, delegation, and team routines

- hiring, onboarding, or role expectations need a clearer structure

Common engagement formats:

1. Delivery Clarity Audit

A short diagnostic of where delivery friction is coming from. I interview key people, review current workflows/docs, identify the main blockers, and provide practical fixes.

2. Team Workflow Reiteration

A focused work to clarify ownership, improve handovers, define decision rules, clean up delivery rituals, and create a lightweight framework that the team can integrate into their workflow.

3. Fractional Delivery / Team Ops Support

Embedded support for teams that need temporary structure across planning, coordination, dependency tracking, documentation, stakeholder communication, and delivery follow-through.

My background combines frontend engineering, UX/UI, delivery coordination, team leadership, hiring, adult education, and coaching-informed management. I have worked across product, design, and engineering, structured team workflows, facilitated workshops, supported hiring processes, and built feedback and 1:1 routines.

The goal is not more ceremonies.

The goal is to establish a workflow that enables the team to collaborate and deliver value to their stakeholders.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Russian
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Berlin (up to 20km)

Self-employed
Career and Transformative Coach
September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
I run a coaching practice for tech and creative professionals and emerging leaders navigating:

- role transitions and scope expansion
- communication and feedback skill development
- leadership identity and style formation
- career change planning, shifting into a new field, changing role or position
- improving work-life relationships, burnout prevention and recovery
- (re)discovering meaning in one's work, values mapping

Trained with an ICF-accredited program.
Career Coaching Talent Development Leadership Development Coaching
Beam Institute of Technology
Learning Experience Designer & Instructor | UX/UI Engineering & Fullstack | Hiring Partner
EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
August 2023 - June 2025 (1 year and 10 months)
Berlin, Germany
Taught Fullstack and UX/UI engineering tracks in remote settings, working with cohorts of 4–6 learners and providing individual guidance where needed
Authored a 6-month full-time UX/UI Engineering program (UX/UI design to frontend implementation, including design systems and component libraries in Storybook) under senior supervision
Collaborated on program iterations with a cross-functional team (LXD, SMEs, program management, teaching staff) to refine structure and delivery
Established regular feedback loops with learners to continuously improve the program
Supported hiring of instructors: defined assessment criteria, refined interview process, screened candidates, and onboarded two teachers
Project Management Agile method Training Curriculum Development Hiring Process Design
AMORELIE
Senior UI Developer and Team Lead
E-COMMERCE
April 2019 - April 2022 (3 years)
Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Germany
People growth: conducted 1-1s for four people; assisted in defining personal and team development plans and acting on them; received and delivered feedback training.
Redesigned and drove hiring for the frontend team (natural growth from 2 to 5 people over three years), which provided exposure to a wider set of skills of the candidates, which helped us to find great matches for the team; whilst responsible for the selection and panel interviews for other roles in the product team.
Established the hiring process for the leading role in the IT department: defined the stages, coordinated a team of 6 people during the whole process, and fully owned the screening round. We successfully hired in a 2.5-month time frame.
Influenced team dynamics of 6 - 12 people by role-modelling open, direct and cross-cultural aware patterns of communication, led adaptation of agile and scrum frameworks. Co-workers appreciated it in the feedback I received for creating a feeling of safety at work and adaptability for change.
Coached and trained colleagues on best web development practices (HTML, CSS, UX design, inclusion and ethics in web design).
Engaged in the company's diversity and inclusion working group: identifying improvement areas, designing proposals for the measures to take for it, and addressing them to the top management.
Agile Team Coaching Hiring Process Design Team management Leadership Stakeholder Management