Valentyna Stetska

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Director Of Engineering at Twilio

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Overview

Valentyna Stetska is the Director of Engineering at Twilio, where she has steadily advanced through leadership roles. A graduate of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, her background is in software engineering. Colleagues consistently describe her as intelligent, driven, precise, and a charismatic leader with exceptional technical skills.

Beyond her technical and leadership acumen, she is noted for bringing a healthy portion of laughter to her teams.

Personality Overview

Imaginative

Relationship Oriented

Big Picture Person

They are naturally enthusiastic, so take their promise with a pinch of salt.  They excel at seeing the bigger picture, and the long-term impact of their decisions. They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships.

Topics They Care About

System Reliability
Actively hiring for her team to shape the technical strategy for Twilio's reliability, with a focus on SRE practices and high-availability distributed systems.
Engineering Leadership
Demonstrated a clear career progression from software engineer to director and is praised for looking after her teams and sponsoring their careers.
Technical Excellence
Described by former colleagues as an "awesome backend engineer" with "technical chops equal to some of the best engineers in the business. "

Media Appearances

Valentyna has no verified media appearances

Work History

3-2022
Director Of Engineering at Twilio
4-2021 - 4-2022
Sr. Engineering Manager at Twilio
12-2019 - 4-2021
Engineering Manager at Twilio
3-2011 - 10-2015
Software Engineer Technical Lead at Lohika
9-2006 - 3-2011
Software Engineer at Lohika

Education

2002 - 2007
Master from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

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Insights For Selling To Valentyna

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Talk anecdotally about the customer experience that your product offers
  • Be friendly and entertaining in your conversation
  • Talk about their team and how your product will help them do things better and easier

DONT's

  • Don’t push them to make a decision too fast, let them get comfortable first
  • Don’t be excessively objective, be a storyteller
  • Avoid overloading them with too much detail

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Valentyna is

  • Relationship and trust can be vital with them, sometimes more than anything else.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Valentyna

  • They are unlikely to say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Valentyna move?

  • They are not the fastest decision makers, their friendly approach can give false positive signals.
  • Can Valentyna take some risk or not?

  • They can accept limited risks, ones that they think will not impact them personally.

You And Valentyna

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