Yuliia Pieskova

Co-founder and COO at Alpha Affinity
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Munich, Bavaria, Germany, DE
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency
  • Ukrainian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German Professional working proficiency

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Marianne Garre Fink

Whenever I see Yuliia posting on LinkedIn about her work and new endeavors, I am reminded of my own experience of working on a project with Yuliia and I envy you if you get the opportunity to work with Yuliia. You will find yourself collaborating with someone who is extremely present, curious, giving, listening and creative. It was easy to create a working relationship with Yuliia, and I always left our sessions smarter, energized and smiling. I would welcome working with Yuliia again and I can see her adding value to any team not only through her knowledge and skills, but in the way she works and connects with other people.

Dmytro Yarmak

I've had the pleasure of working with Yuliia in both corporate and start-up settings. Yuliia possesses a relentless energy that propels her to confront challenging obstacles, whether it's shifting the long-standing status quo in a 1000+ person organisation, orchestrating and streamlining processes, or improving collaboration between globally distributed departments composed of hundreds of employees. Moreover, her support and encouragement in challenging times is invaluable. Yuliia demonstrates a keen understanding of the systemic changes required to enhance an organization's overall performance. Her determined spirit and commitment to improvement are truly remarkable and make her an exceptional team player and leader.

Timo Appelmann

I worked with Yulia for almost 3 years, in the same team and across teams. She played a fundamental role in the early days of scoutbee, supporting everyone with her exceptional experience as an Agile Coach and in different teams as a Scrum Master. She built processes from scratch in a young and fast-growing startup, which was not always easy - but with her very result-oriented attitude, she was successful in all her projects. Her communication skills were also remarkable. In a multinational environment, this particularly benefited her, especially because of her excellent English and very good German. This was very helpful for cross-departmental collaboration (mainly with Operations and Sales at the time), where she was able to bring together different viewpoints, perspectives and personalities to achieve the best possible outcome. I can only recommend her highly. Hire her - she is an added value for any company :-)

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Credentials

  • ORSC Certified Coach
    CRR Global
    May, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional
    Scrum.org
    Jan, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Running Product Design Sprints
    Coursera
    Aug, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • Strategy Implementation
    Coursera
    Dec, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Managing an Agile Team
    Coursera Course Certificates
    Sep, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified LeSS Practitioner
    The LeSS Company B.V.
    Sep, 2019
    - Nov, 2024
  • IELTS
    8.5
    Feb, 2014
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • Germany
    • Data Infrastructure and Analytics
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-founder and COO
      • Oct 2021 - Present

      We are creating a large, integrated Knowledge Graph for the global production sector, meticulously designed by our expert team with extensive industry experience. We address the critical pain points of data sourcing and integration by providing a wealth of standardized, interconnected data to fuel innovation in Supply Chain Intelligence, Market Intelligence, domain-specific Generative AI, and more. Our self-service API offers tiered subscription plans, streamlines data enrichment and enables cost-effective access for businesses of all sizes. This way, we empower tech teams to build groundbreaking, data-driven solutions that solve the biggest challenges in the global production sector. https://www.alpha-affinity.com My responsibilities are: - IT process consultancy; - Leading Agile workflow implementation; - Product Discovery and Delivery consultancy; - Organizational and Personal Coaching. Show less

    • Denmark
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Scrum Master
      • Feb 2020 - Oct 2021

      - Driving Product Areas (Value Streams) transformation for a 120 employees SAFe train; Team coaching of Product Division Leadership team and Agile COP; - Launching and co-organizing cross-company initiatives like Hackathons, Communication Chapter; - Driving switch to the Remote Culture in collaboration with HR; - Initiating and extending cross-department collaboration with Customer Success, Market Unit and Infrastructure; - Scrum Master of 2 teams at the 12 team unit: coaching, boosting self-organisation, continuous improvement, fostering DevOps practices at their early stages; - Co-organizing the first remote and cross-role Agile Camp for about 200 participants; - Fostering client-oriented development and improving the organization processes. Achievements: setup of Product Streams and one of the first SAFe trains successful launch, introduced Quarterly Hackathons as a cross-division practice, introduced the remote work practices and driving the Remote Playbook creation, eliminated of cross-location silos (in collaboration with HR’s) and cross-department silos (in collaboration with other Agile Leaders), redesigned Sprint Reviews by introducing the client collaboration for the first time at SimCorp history as a result of 1 year work (except CDD). Show less

    • Germany
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Agile Coach
      • Mar 2017 - Dec 2019

      - Build up a remote international agile team starting with 2 developers and up to over 40 team members from scratch; - Coach Product Owners, stakeholders and development teams; - Discover, build up, scale and support the processes of collaboration between different departments across the company as they were growing; - After successful implementation of Scrum, drive the development of scaling strategy: definition and integration of the team structure inspired by Spotify and LeSS practices; - Introduction of the OKR’s company wide and leading the first iteration of the OKR’s at the first year of work (2 development teams, small teams of Sales and Delivery teams); - Mentorship of a Scrum Master colleague who took over half of the team. Achievements: building and scaling product team and shaping its processes as we moved from Seed to Series B. Moreover, we have been nominated the best startup in Bavaria, we got the contracts from Audi, Siemens, Airbus and more key German and Austrian players. Show less

    • Ukraine
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Project Manager/Business Analyst
      • Oct 2016 - Sep 2017

      - Project management for 3 teams (Waterfall, Agile Transformation); - Set up the project management standards from scratch and documentation; - Project outcomes and client's feedback management; - Support and knowledge sharing to other project management team members; - Pre-sales and further communication with clients: from understanding their business domain to proposal developing and contract negotiation. Achievements: introduction of product management standards and ready to use workflows and processes for project initiation, management and closure. Over 5 international projects successfully initiated and delivered or started and 2 long-term on-going projects with a budget of over $30000 per month. Show less

    • Ukraine
    • Software Development
    • IT Project Manager
      • Aug 2014 - Oct 2016

      - Leading the web development flow from a client’s request to a successful project delivery on several projects (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall);- Managing 8-10 developers team, shaping processes;- Following up the commitments of the team and managing the client’s expectations; - Project outcomes and client's feedback management;- First contact and further communication with clients: from understanding their business domain to proposal developing and contract negotiation;- Recruiting and onboarding new team members;- Mentoring a part time Marketing Intern (8 months).Achievements: over 15 projects successfully delivered or started (at a cost of $3000 - $25000 and 3 long-term on-going projects). Show less

    • Sales Manager (part time)
      • Feb 2013 - Jul 2014

      - Co-developing sales and marketing strategy for a small outsourcing company (up to 15 developers), setting up contacts with potential clients and partners;- Writing and editing articles in blog and providing site content https://7webpages.com/blog/ Achievements: 10% response rate; 7% success rate.

    • Ukraine
    • Professional Training and Coaching
    • English Teacher (part time)
      • Jun 2011 - Jun 2015

      - Teaching groups (5-14 people). Target audience - graduates and young specialists who need English for work or studying abroad; - Drawing up a lessons program and writing exercise books; - Conducting trainings (Time Management, Job Interview, Formal Phone Conversations, Emails Writing, Successful CV, Study Abroad and Essays for the International Tests); - Moderating Speaking Club for Career Builders. Achievements: about 120 students, successfully employed (Microsoft, Samsung, EY etc.) or studying abroad. Show less

    • Belgium
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • HR Assitant
      • May 2012 - Aug 2012

      - Trainings process scheduling and quality control; - Recruitment on the primary stages; - Internal events organization. Achievements: 9 vacancies closed, organization of Children's Day and the company birthday, trainings process met the international audit standards. - Trainings process scheduling and quality control; - Recruitment on the primary stages; - Internal events organization. Achievements: 9 vacancies closed, organization of Children's Day and the company birthday, trainings process met the international audit standards.

    • Reginal Editor and Correspondent
      • Feb 2010 - Feb 2012

      Supervised 11 young interns in journalism, numerous articles on education events. Supervised 11 young interns in journalism, numerous articles on education events.

Education

  • Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
    Master's Degree, Linguistics
    2008 - 2014

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