Raya Fratkina is an experienced engineering leader and coach with over 8 years in senior technology roles, currently directing Engineering for Administrator Experience and leading the Kibana team at Elastic. She specializes in front-end and application delivery, mentoring teams to invent and build user-centered software while bridging product, design, and engineering. Raya combines deep technical roots in AI and machine learning (MS, Stanford) with executive coaching training from Harvard and Brown, a blend that informs her people-first approach to technical leadership. Her career spans startup and enterprise contexts—from Principal Scientist roles to senior engineering leadership—giving her a practical knack for turning research and complex requirements into polished, scalable products. Notably, she is completing ICF-aligned coaching credentials, signaling a formal commitment to developing leaders as well as systems.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Leadership & Performance Coaching, Executive Coaching, Leadership & Performance Coaching, Executive Coaching at Brown University School of Professional Studies
Sankt-Petersburg School #30
Leadership coaching, Leadership coaching at Professional & Executive Development - Harvard Division of Continuing Education
Computer Science, Computer Science at ITMO University
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
MS, AI - Machine Learning, MS, AI - Machine Learning at Stanford University
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