Catalin Adler

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Engineering Manager at Bird

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

Overview

Catalin Adler is a transformational engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and operating distributed cloud systems on GCP, Azure, and AWS. He holds a Master of Science and excels at creating high-performance teams. People who have worked with him describe him as a talented, committed, detail-oriented, and people-first technical leader.

Catalin is a proponent of flexible work environments that allow for a healthy work-life balance. He values the ability to work on his own schedule, which enables him to be present for his family during important moments. This approach reflects his focus on sustainable and people-centric team cultures.

Unique fact: He led the development of an ERP system from its very first customer to over 450 businesses and 7, 000 users, managing billions of euros in customer revenue.

Personality Overview

Demanding

Judgemental

Upfront

They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles.  They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value. They care equally about the product and its potential impact.

Topics They Care About

Engineering Excellence
He is passionate about inspiring teams to challenge the status quo and break boundaries to achieve engineering excellence, a theme he often discusses.
Fostering Growth Mindset
He actively promotes creating a healthy and sustainable culture of growth through feedback, which he considers a core skill for any manager.
Managing Technical Debt
In a prior senior role, he led multiple engineering teams in MVP research projects focused on helping large enterprises manage source code technical debt at scale.

Media Appearances

Catalin has no verified media appearances

Work History

10-2023
Engineering Manager at Bird
9-2022 - 9-2023
Senior Engineering Manager at Box
7-2019 - 8-2022
Senior Engineering Manager at Trilogy
9-2017 - 6-2019
Technical Product Manager at Trilogy
10-2017
Head of Engineering at Senior Software

Education

2000 - 2005
Master of Science - MS from Academia de Studii Economice din București
1996 - 2000
Education details unavailable from Liceul teoretic Constantin Brancoveanu

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Insights For Selling To Catalin

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Get to the point quickly instead of spending too much time on pleasantries
  • Stress on the business value that your product offers
  • Ask them questions confidently while doing discovery, don’t be apologetic

DONT's

  • Avoid long winding pitches, stay objective
  • Refrain from asking too many questions
  • Avoid repeating yourself or making generalizations

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Catalin is

  • Belief in the product plays an important role, followed by objective proof and testimonials.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Catalin

  • They may hesitate slightly, but if they are not convinced, they will say no.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Catalin move?

  • Their decision making speed is somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Catalin take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks only after they have analyzed the advantages and disadvantages.

You And Catalin

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