Iwona Bialynicka-Birula is a Head of Applied Research at Cresta. She possess expertise in software development, distributed systems, hadoop, big data, java and 39 more skills. She is proficient in Russian and Italian. Colleagues describe her as "Iwona is one of the most skilled software developers I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She is adept at deriving technical solutions that are both elegant and practical. Her degree of ownership over both her own work and the work of her team makes her an asset in any organization. While working with Iwona at Visible, she was able to quickly learn, leverage, and extend a variety of open-source software to build a highly-scalable search and indexing platform. Iwona's collaborative nature helps her to fit into any team, and she possesses a quiet leadership that allows her to achieve consistently excellent results." and "Iwona and I worked together at AISystems for three years, during which time she never failed to impress me with her intellect, responsiveness, and professionalism. Iwona is very strong technically, and is a pleasant person with whom to work. She stands up for what she believes in, and argues her points logically, but readily admits when another's viewpoint or approach is superior, on the rare occassions when that happens! She would make a strong addition to any development team."