About

Lena Barinova is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Google with over 10 years of experience in software development. She is passionate about building products that bring value to people and has a proven track record of leading cross-functional development teams to create the best possible product for clients. Currently serving as an Engineering Manager at appnexus, Lena has previously held senior leadership positions at adform where she led the creation of a real-time bidding platform. She built a motivated agile team from 6 to 30 developers and led product development from 0 to 12M EUR in revenue/year, from 100 qps (8 machines 1 DC) to 200K qps (42 machines 3 DCs) in load, from 10 clients in one country to 400 clients around the globe. Lena is highly skilled in software development, leading definition, development, and delivery of software and hardware products and services that are low latency, highly loaded, and easily scalable. She is experienced in CI/CD, testing, and integration, and is committed to constant improvement of daily product development and deployment processes. Lena is a mentor and teacher to scrum masters, product owners, and new team members, and has mentored dozens of teams in Agile adaption. She has also educated other departments such as marketing, client support, and HR about Agile, Scrum, and Kanban. Lena holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Kaunas University of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Kauno Technologijos Universitetas. She is a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer with relevant experience of 18.54 years. Lena's purpose is to build and drive cross-functional development teams to create the best possible product for clients and feel happy doing that. She cares about product, people, and process and collaborates closely with Product Managers to ensure that all requirements are met by her teams effectively with the best quality.