Kat Stam

Kat Stam

ex-CTO who leads the 1st round tech interview for recruitment agencies & tech companies | Hired tech people for Volkswagen | Google for Startups

Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
5 mil seguidores + de 500 conexões

Sobre

I speak about interviewing technical people online, and about planting trees, cleaning the oceans and sustainability offline.

I am a former CTO. Co-founder 2 impact (greenTech) startups, and was a part of the C-suite of 2 more. CS graduate turned self-taught data scientist, turned tech lead and eventually a CTO.

Currently Principal Tech Interviewer @ AssessDev and Sustainability Evangelist @ goodbag

Google for Startups Alumni. Won 2x grants from the European Space Agency.

Scroll down to read more how I can help in tech interviewing or career coaching

----------------

TECH INTERVIEWING

TLDR; Here are the ares in which we at AssessDev can help.

- conducting the tech assessments + writing up the evaluation + candidate feedback
- crafting the interview questions and practical tasks
- designing a simple and short tech interview process
- training the in-house tech employees to becoming great interviewers

Want to know more? Visit https://assess.dev/

Want to nail your interviewing so this is what candidates say about you? https://assess.dev/candidate-testimonials Drop me a message ;)

----------------

CAREER COACHING

I have helped professionals with:
- designing their own promotion
- get new jobs
- return back to the 9-5 life after parental leave
- crafting their CV, portfolio and LinkedIn profiles
- handle a difficult situation at work
- hire the first 5 people of their team/company
- gain their confidence back

Book your session today at https://assess.dev/career-coaching

Read/listen what my happy customers say -> https://shoutout.io/assessdev/

Contribuições

Atividades

Experiência

  • Gráfico goodbag - better world

    Business developer & Sustainability Evangelist

    goodbag - better world

    - o momento 2 meses

    Vienna, Austria

    A proud owner of a goodbag and a goodcup. You will most likely find me strolling around the city with my goodcup tucked in the side pocket of my backpack, getting 50 cent discounts from coffee shops for bringing my own coffee cup.

    Every day, I either plant a tree or fish a plastic bag out of the ocean. Join me in this and let's compete.Put yourself to the test and beat my metrics to create more env impact. Ahhh, good days, good days ;)

    ---

    About goodbag

    • bgood is…

    A proud owner of a goodbag and a goodcup. You will most likely find me strolling around the city with my goodcup tucked in the side pocket of my backpack, getting 50 cent discounts from coffee shops for bringing my own coffee cup.

    Every day, I either plant a tree or fish a plastic bag out of the ocean. Join me in this and let's compete.Put yourself to the test and beat my metrics to create more env impact. Ahhh, good days, good days ;)

    ---

    About goodbag

    • bgood is the go-to platform for sustainability where every good deed collects Seeds
    • Each goodbag has an NFC chip that can be scanned with your phone at any shop to collect Seeds
    • goodbag can be found in over 1500 stores in 7 countries and is developed by an exceptional team of 10
    • IKEA Bootcamp Startup, Maze-X alumni, WebSummit Finalist

  • Gráfico AssessDev

    CTO & Principal Tech Interviewer

    AssessDev

    - o momento 1 ano 8 meses

    Helping teams and recruitment agencies interview and hire tech talent with confidence.

    https://assess.dev

  • Gráfico Cosmos Pics

    CTO

    Cosmos Pics

    - 3 anos 6 meses

    Portugal

    We believe that businesses should make commitment to future generations and fight a global issue. Ours is climate change, starting with wildfires. We do it from space.

    See the invisible - we develop a no-code DIY platform for satellite image analysis without friction.

  • Gráfico Expertlead

    Freelance Consultant / Tech Interviewer

    Expertlead

    - 1 ano 1 mês

    Berlin, Germany

    Expertlead (https://www.expertlead.com/) | Disrupting Tech Recruitment company, connecting companies with the best Tech Talent.

    At Expertlead I am a Technical Interviewer supporting to find the best Tech Talents in back-end (Python), Data Science, AI, DevOps and Data Engineering domains.

  • Gráfico Founder Institute Luxembourg

    Startup Mentor

    Founder Institute Luxembourg

    - 2 anos 3 meses

    Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    It is a pleasure to start giving back to the Luxembourgish Startup community, which is where I learned a lot about business and made friends.

    ---
    Founder Institute
    Since 2009, FI's proven methodology has helped over 4,500 companies across 6 continents build businesses that matter.

  • Gráfico Terra.do

    Mentor

    Terra.do

    - 2 anos 4 meses

    Stanford, California, United States

    About mentoring
    I am one of the +40 individuals across the world who have the privilege to mentor the cohorts of Terra.do on topics such as investment, technology, marketing/design, and entrepreneurship.
    The cohorts consists of around 60 professionals from 8-10 different countries.

    About Terra.do
    We're an online climate school aiming to solve #climatechange.
    Terra.do selects talented individuals who care deeply about climate, take them through an intensive 12-week online…

    About mentoring
    I am one of the +40 individuals across the world who have the privilege to mentor the cohorts of Terra.do on topics such as investment, technology, marketing/design, and entrepreneurship.
    The cohorts consists of around 60 professionals from 8-10 different countries.

    About Terra.do
    We're an online climate school aiming to solve #climatechange.
    Terra.do selects talented individuals who care deeply about climate, take them through an intensive 12-week online bootcamp taught by top experts and then get them to work with high-impact climate projects or organizations that can leverage their skills.

  • Data Scientist

    Self-Employed

    - 7 anos 8 meses

    Using AI and data science to amplify impact of social/civic/environmental projects.

  • Gráfico F-LANE Accelerator for Female Empowerment

    Impact Mentor

    F-LANE Accelerator for Female Empowerment

    - 2 anos 1 mês

    Berlin, Germany

  • Gráfico FemGems Club

    Startup Mentor

    FemGems Club

    - 2 anos 1 mês

    Berlin, Germany

    providing mentorship to entrepreneurs in the areas of #socialimpact, #hiring, #productdevelopment and #innovation

  • Gráfico Nina Space

    Chief Technology Officer

    Nina Space

    - 2 anos 6 meses

    Lisbon Area, Portugal

    We believe business should work on finding solutions to global issues. Ours is wildfires. We do it from space.
    http://www.nina.space (formerly Firefly)

  • Gráfico Unbabel

    NLP Engineer

    Unbabel

    - 9 meses

    Lisbon Area, Portugal

    ML & NLP

  • Gráfico AMPLEXOR International

    Linguistic Solutions Architect

    AMPLEXOR International

    - 1 ano 10 meses

    Luxembourg

  • Gráfico European Parliament

    Machine translation trainee

    European Parliament

    - 4 meses

  • Gráfico Musala Soft

    CMMI Consultant

    Musala Soft

    - 6 meses

    Musal

    Incorporating Agile and CMMI best practices in a vivid ssoftware development environment

  • Gráfico Ontotext AD

    Junior Software Engineer

    Ontotext AD

    - 2 anos 6 meses

    Bulgaria

Formação acadêmica

  • Gráfico University of Wolverhampton

    The University of Wolverhampton

    Master of Arts (M.A.), Erasmus Mundus grant Natural Language Processing

    -

    relevant coursework: Python Programming, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation and other NLP Applications

  • Gráfico Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Master of Arts (M.A.), Erasmus Mundus grant Natural Language Processing

    -

    relevant coursework: Speech Technology, Natural Language Processing Fundamentals

  • Gráfico Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

    Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Software engineering

    -

    relevant coursework: C++ programming, OOP, Data Structures and Algorithms, OS, Computer Networks, Computer Architectures, Databases, Software Engineering, Software Architectures, Software Requirement Analysis, Statistics (with R) and Empirical methods, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Mathematical Analysis,Technological Entrepreneurship, ICT law, among others

  • Bulgarian National School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

    High-school Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science Graduated with Honors

    -

    Atividades e grupos:Competing for the School's Women's Basketball Team Competing for the School's Chess Team Competing for the School's Debate Club

  • First English Language School

    Second High-school diploma English Language and Literature, General Graduated with Honors

    -

Licenças e certificados

Experiência de voluntariado

  • Co-organizer

    Lisbon Data Science Meetup (LxDSM)

    - o momento 9 anos 3 meses

    Ciência e tecnologia

    The main objective of these meetups is for the Data Science and Machine Learning community in Lisbon, Portugal, to get to know each other, so that we can start learning together. We will organize hackatons, in which we will work with open data from sources such as dados.gov.pt and quandl.com.

    http://www.meetup.com/Lisbon-Open-Data-Meetup/

  • Lab Monitor

    LxMLS

    - 1 ano 2 meses

    Ciência e tecnologia

    My role is to provide help and guidance to the LxMLS's participants to understand and implement key machine learning (ML) algorithms in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Big Data.

  • Reviewer

    RANLP

    - 3 anos 1 mês

    Formação acadêmica

    A Reviewer for the International conference "Recent Advantages in Natural Language Processing"
    http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013/start.php

Publicações

Cursos

  • 3rd Lisbon Machine Learning School

    -

  • Artificial Intelligence, an Udacity course

    cs271

  • GATE Summer School

    -

  • Gamification (Coursera)

    -

  • Image and Video Processing, a Coursera course (finished with distinction)

    002

  • Machine Learning, a Coursera course

    -

Reconhecimentos e prêmios

  • Finalist at Smart Open Lisboa

    Beta-i

  • Young Challenger

    Global Social Business Summit 2015

    As one of the Young Challengers, I was invited to challenge the way we do business today, define a social problems that needs our immediate attention, and suggest a viable business solution to it.

  • Erasmus Mundus Grant

    European Commission

    This award also applies for the occupation of "Student at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona"

  • Erasmus Programme Grant

    -

    A 6-month international student exchange programme between Sofia University and Università degli studi di Cagliari

Idiomas

  • English

    Nível avançado

  • Bulgarian

    Nível nativo ou bilíngue

  • Spanish

    Nível básico a intermediário

  • Italian

    Nível básico

  • German

    Nível básico

  • Portuguese

    Nível intermediário

  • Japanese

    Nível básico

Recomendações recebidas

Veja o perfil completo de Kat

  • Saiba quem vocês conhecem em comum
  • Apresente-se
  • Entre em contato direto com Kat
Cadastre-se para ver o perfil completo

Outros perfis semelhantes

Adicione novas competências com estes cursos