Barbara Bermes
Director Of Product at Hubstaff
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBarbara Bermes is an AI-first product leader with 13 years of experience who currently directs product strategy and engineering to deliver measurable business outcomes across startups and unicorn-scale SaaS. She has led platform migrations, launched AI-driven features that halved managers’ manual effort, and scaled products from early 0-1 launches to $300M+ ARR environments at companies like Deel, Lever, Mozilla and Workleap. A player-coach, Barbara builds psychologically safe, high-performing teams and improves delivery velocity through clear prioritization and cross-functional coordination. She publishes product leadership essays, hosts the Products That Count podcast, and even open-sources her operating model and an "AI Chief of Staff," reflecting a practical blend of writing, tooling, and hands-on product craft. Based in Toronto, she pairs technical roots in computer science with a knack for turning complex platform work into outcomes that accelerate growth.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor, Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied SciencesCertificate, Information Architecture - Basic (The iSchool Institute: Faculty of Information), Certificate, Information Architecture - Basic (The iSchool Institute: Faculty of Information) at University of TorontoToronto Metropolitan University
English, German
Github Skills (25)
firefox-android10
browser10
android-component10
privacy10
firefox10
android10
swift10
mozilla10
android-components9
mobile9
oanda8
ios8
passwords7
bluetooth6
kotlin6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bbinto/working-with-bb
May 2024 - Mar 2026
user manuals, frameworks, etc.
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bbinto/lean-web-code
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:31 pushes in 4 months
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