Rinat didn’t plan to build a staffing company. She planned to keep doing what she’d always done – lead.

After serving in an elite military intelligence unit and studying communication and political science, she fell into the tech world almost by accident, joining Netvision while still a student. She was hooked immediately. By 23, she was COO of an international gaming company in Cyprus, managing dozens of employees across a global operation.

The career that followed was shaped by one constant: Rinat has always operated globally, led large teams, and found ways to make things work across borders and cultures.

Then came COVID – and a realization. Israeli tech companies were desperate for talented developers. Costs were astronomical. Hiring was rigid and slow. And just across the border, in East-Central Europe, there was an enormous pool of exceptional talent waiting for the right opportunity. Remote work had just proven it could work. The bridge needed to be built.

Global Teams was born – not as another staffing agency, but as something more personal: a boutique partner that builds real relationships, not just fills roles.

On AI and the future of tech talent:

There’s a lot of noise about AI replacing developers. Rinat sees it differently.

“AI doesn’t replace great developers – it amplifies them. A talented developer with AI is exponentially more productive than an average developer without it. That means the demand for truly skilled people isn’t going down. It’s going up.”

The developers Global Teams places are already AI-native – fluent in tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude, and among the fastest adopters of new technology in the region. In an era where the question is no longer “how many developers do you have?” but “how good are they?” – that distinction matters.

On what the war in Israel revealed:

When reserve duty began pulling developers out of Israeli tech teams in 2023-2024, companies that had built global teams kept moving. They shipped features, supported customers, and hit milestones – because their East-European teams were stable, committed, and there. For many, it was the moment hybrid global teams shifted from “nice to have” to “essential infrastructure.”

On what she’s building:

“We’re not in the business of placing resources. We’re in the business of building teams that feel like one team – where developers in Kyiv or Warsaw feel like they’re part of the company they’re building for. That’s what makes the difference between a vendor and a partner.”