I am part of the leading team responsible for organizing the 2nd biggest

entrepreneurship contest in the world, which includes analytics, website

optimization, managing partnerships, and putting all the pieces together,

especially with all the COVID-19 changes. The latter demanded that we adapted

current technological solutions to the new needs, as well as adopting new ones. At

times, the work feels like I am juggling many things at once and that I have a lot of

responsibility, which gives me the motivation to keep performing and make the

contest run as smoothly as possible.

PillDeal is a medical device StartUp, which helps women taking the pill on time,

with a hardware and software solution. My role, besides leading a team of 3 and

developing the business model, was product development. This experience tested

my limits of grit, creativity, and learning. For 3 years, I had to learn about every

area of the business, the available technological solutions, which ones to use, and

actually learn to use them. Meanwhile, I had to develop social skills for networking,

pitching, and presenting complex ideas to investors and partners.

Overall, I loved this experience, especially the technology development of the

solution, both the software and hardware (in Android Studio and Arduino).