Dana Pylayeva
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About
Dana is a multifaceted agilist who thrives at navigating complexity, creating learning communities, and unleashing leadership potential in those she coaches.
She offers a unique blend of the diverse technical background (as a former Java Developer, a DBA Manager, an Application Architect), her 20 + years of Agile/ DevOps Coaching experience (with clients in US, UK, Canada, India, Japan, Russia, Ireland) as well as her strong professional coaching skills (rooted in Co-Active and ORSC).
Dana’s coaching range includes individuals, teams, leadership as well as transformational coaching across a diverse span of industries: legal publishing, automotive, digital marketing, retail, banking, music streaming, non-profits etc.
Dana is passionate about growing others and giving back to the Agile/Scrum community. Through the years, she has been involved in various roles as a volunteer, reviewer, track chair, program chair and conference chair at Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance organizations.
She is the founder of Big Apple Scrum Day conference in NYC as well as a co-organizer of several user groups: NYC Scrum User Group, Voice of Scrum Alliance in Russia, and NYC Liberating Structures group.
Dana is an author, trainer and speaker, who has delivered her workshops at over 60 conferences in 15 countries.
List of Dana’s books, articles and Agile/DevOps games:
Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game, 2017 Apress
Fear in the Workplace, 2018, GameCrafter
Safety in the Workplace, 2019, GameCrafter
The Self-Selection Game, 2019, LeanPub
Tips from the Agile trenches, 2019, LeanPub
Test account SGNYC2020
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2023-03-13 - present - A Large Economic Institution (confidential) (Enterprise Agile Coach)
- 2018-09-03 - present - Agile Play Consulting, LLC (Agile Coach and Founder)
- 2008-09-30 - 2010-10-29 - LinkShare Corporation (Sr.Application Architect)
- 2010-11-01 - 2012-12-31 - Rakuten Linkshare (DBA Manager)
- 2013-01-02 - 2013-12-30 - Rakuten Marketing (Manager, Shared Services)
- 2013-12-30 - 2016-07-01 - Rakuten Marketing (Manager Software Engineering, Scrum master)
- 2016-09-12 - 2018-08-31 - HBC Digital (Agile Coach)
- 2021-05-03 - 2023-03-10 - Spotify (Agile Coach (contract))