Meet the people behind Codility
Codility builds the tools and methodology that help organizations find, assess and grow engineering talent. Today the same assessment science covers AI skills in business roles. The team spans competitive programming, assessment science, product engineering and client partnerships, serving customers around the world.
Built by an engineer who knew the problem first-hand
Greg Jakacki was a competitive programmer and International Olympiad in Informatics medalist who went on to work as a tech lead at Exoweb. There, he saw the problem up close: only around one in ten candidates who reached the technical interview could actually do the work. His engineering team was losing hundreds of hours a year to interviews that went nowhere.
He built the first version of Codility using competitive programming methodology to identify genuine engineering capability before a single engineer was pulled into an interview room. It returned thousands of engineering hours to the organization. Greg held strong beliefs about software quality and the quality of people building software. Those beliefs became Codility’s foundation.
From assessment tool to assessment partner
Natalia Panowicz brought psychometrics and business expertise to complement Greg’s engineering roots.
Under her leadership, Codility has grown from a screening tool into an enterprise platform for hiring, assessing and developing talent, first in engineering and now in every business role that works with AI.
Today that means helping organizations through AI transformation. Codility defines what strong engineering looks like when AI tools are part of every workflow, and its AI skills assessments show who can get real work done with AI in sales, finance, operations and consulting roles. The competitive programming roots remain in the rigor. The psychometric expertise is what makes that rigor predict real job performance.
OUR TEAM
The leadership team
Natalia Panowicz
Chief Executive Officer | US
Co-founder. Background in psychometrics and business. Raised by an engineer, which shaped how she thinks about the intersection of people and technology. Natalia has led Codility’s evolution from a screening tool into an enterprise platform for technical talent decisions, including the company’s current focus on helping organizations build AI-ready engineering teams.
Ilya Tillis
Chief product officer | US
Leads product strategy across the Codility platform, including Screen, Interview, and Skills Intelligence. Ilya’s team includes product managers, assessment scientists, and product designers working on how assessments are built, delivered, and validated. He is responsible for the product roadmap that extends Codility into AI skills assessment and ongoing engineering skills measurement beyond hiring.
Radu Farcas
Chief technology officer | UK
Leads Codility’s engineering organization across Poland, Germany, and the UK. Radu’s team builds and maintains the assessment platform, including the VS Code environment, code analysis engine, and the infrastructure that runs millions of assessments for enterprise clients. His insight that “anyone can write code now, but building is harder” directly shaped Codility’s current engineering-first positioning.
Ben Miller
Chief Revenue Officer | UK/US
Leads Codility’s commercial teams: sales, customer success, solutions engineering, demand generation, support and partnerships. An experienced revenue leader, Ben joined in 2026 and brought in new leaders for customer success, solutions engineering and demand generation. His focus is helping enterprise customers grow from hiring assessments to measuring the skills of the teams they already have.
Caro Bon
Chief Financial Officer | UK
Oversees Codility’s finance, operations, and corporate functions. Caro manages the infrastructure that supports a distributed team operating across four countries, ensuring the business runs with the same rigor it brings to its assessment methodology.
How we work
Codility is a distributed team serving clients globally. Our offices are in the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, and the United States, with engineering and product development primarily based in European time zones. Our sales and customer success teams span multiple regions to support client relationships wherever they are
Frequently asked questions
Codility was founded in 2009 by Greg Jakacki, a competitive programmer and International Olympiad in Informatics medalist who built automated assessment to solve a problem he experienced first-hand as a tech lead: most candidates who reached technical interviews could not do the work. Natalia Panowicz brought expertise in psychometrics and business to the company’s engineering foundations.