Mariya Breyter

Mariya Breyter is an IT management and project management professional with over twenty-year experience bringing the Agile mindset to Fortune 100 companies in technology, financial services, and healthcare with a passion for leading enterprise-level agile adoptions and culture changes. Mariya is a passionate agilist and an active member of the New York City Agile community. Mariya is also a contributor to a number of online resources on Agile and project management topics, including her own Agile site, Agile Lean Transformation, and her recent book, Agile Project and Product Management published by Apress. She is a frequent presenter at the Annual Agile Conference, a mentor at the Grace Hopper Conference, and a keynote speaker at the Product World conference. Mariya holds multiple Agile certifications, such as CSM, CSP, Agile Coach, and Facilitator, AWS Cloud Practitioner, PMP, and PMI-ACP.  She has a combined BA /MS degree in Linguistics and Computer Science and Ph.D. in Computer Linguistics from Moscow State University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Her passion is building high-performance teams and organizations and delivering products that delight customers. At Goldman Sachs, Mariya served as an SVP of Engineering leading the Agile Delivery Group that built Marcus by Goldman Sachs. Currently, Mariya is the Global Head of the Payables Product Group at Amazon and a Professor at NYU teaching Agile Project Management, IT Principles, and Organizational Transformation. At home, Mariya is using stickies to organize her family activities, and the kids use task boards to achieve complete alignment and full transparency.