CTO at A&K Robotics :: November 14, 2019
As CTO, I had the privilege of hiring and working closely with Lenka at A&K Robotics, where she was the robotic systems software team lead. Lenka is a unique individual in that she brings the best of both academic know-how and industry execution experience. When Lenka joined our team, we were going through a period of rapid product and team scaling up, and for her first 30 days we tasked her with a number of challenging OKRs. Her performance in achieving and exceeding expectations on these objectives put on the fast track for leadership advancement, and within a few months, her attitude and accomplishments led me to give her the responsibilities of software team lead. In this role, Lenka demonstrated a strong desire to do right by the team, focusing on building strong working relationships by organizing weekly beer socials, changing up and improving the way weekly dev meetings were held, and revamping the retrospective process to be more effective. I also found Lenka to be highly coachable, running management and team improvement ideas by me to seek feedback, and taking suggestions to heart. Overall, my experience with Lenka is that she is a highly competent team leader who enjoys a balance of personnel and project management tasks with hands on development and design.
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