Irina Anastasiu
Manager Strategy, Transformation & Change Leadership Design - Product - Engineering
Brisbane City, Queensland, Germany
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Top SchoolIrina Anastasiu is a product- and engineering-focused transformation leader with 10 years of hands-on experience bridging mobile engineering, UX design and organisational change. Currently managing Strategy, Transformation & Change at Netlight, she advises executives on governance, operating models and change communication while previously building and scaling multi-platform mobile products and engineering teams across energy and mobility. Her background spans technical delivery—shipping Android and iOS apps and designing complex APIs—to academic research in urban informatics and participatory design, giving her a rare mix of user-centered product craft and systems-level strategic thinking. She has led cross-functional chapters, defined engineering career ladders, and introduced agile practices that enabled teams to scale from single digits to double-digit headcounts. Based in Brisbane with deep ties to Munich, she brings an educator’s mindset (guest lecturing and lecturing roles) and a knack for translating research insights into pragmatic product and organisational change.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD / Doctor of Philosophy Urban Planning Participatory Design Urban Innovation Urban Informatics, PhD / Doctor of Philosophy Urban Planning Participatory Design Urban Innovation Urban Informatics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Vienna University of TechnologyDipl. Medieninf. Univ. / BSc. & MSc. Media Informatics with minor in Communication Science, Dipl. Medieninf. Univ. / BSc. & MSc. Media Informatics with minor in Communication Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenUrban Interaction Summer Doctoral Programme Humanistic Human-Computer Interaction | Urban Informatics | Architecture and Media Studies, Urban Interaction Summer Doctoral Programme Humanistic Human-Computer Interaction | Urban Informatics | Architecture and Media Studies at University of OuluOxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme Digital Politics and Government | Ethics and Philosophy of Information, Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme Digital Politics and Government | Ethics and Philosophy of Information at University of OxfordHonours Degree Technology Management, Honours Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)Exchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at University of Rome Tor Vergata
German, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Romanian, German
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Github Skills (20)
firebase-remote-config9
firebase-realtime-database9
android-sdk9
firebase-storage9
firebase-functions9
firebase8
firebase-database8
firebase-inappmessaging8
sdk7
android7
uinavigationcontroller6
heroku6
uitableview6
nodejs6
iphone6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
qutiab330/2018se2
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
iriphon/crashlytics_call_demo
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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