Yulia Izbyakova
Developer Relation Manager (DevRel)
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolYulia Izbyakova is a DevRel and HR leader with over 10 years’ experience designing HR processes, building employer brands, and driving relocation and retention programs for engineering teams across Europe. Based in Sofia, she has led successful large-scale relocations—supporting 30+ families and achieving a sustained ~3% attrition rate—while launching DevRel initiatives that secured speaker slots at European conferences. Skilled in recruitment optimization, onboarding, and employee development, she has repeatedly scaled hiring (24 hires in a year; 10+ hires in a month) and created practical toolkits like presentation checklists and country-specific relocation guides. Yulia blends hands-on HR operations with community-building—organizing meetups with 100+ attendees and reinstating internal culture via recurring events—and mentors HR and DevRel practitioners online. Notably, she translates HR needs into measurable business outcomes, combining finance training with a pragmatic, business-first approach to people strategy.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma, Finance and Credit, Higher National Diploma, Finance and Credit at Novosibirsk State Agricultural University
Github Skills (4)
plesk9
sdk6
testing5
flask2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ykuzakova/test
Dec 2016 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 8 branches in 8 years 5 months
ykuzakova/php-course
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:15 reviews, 17 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 months
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