Kristel Kruustük
Kristel Kruustük is the Chief Tester and co-founder of Testlio, the originator of, and leader in, networked testing supporting clients like Microsoft, Amazon, CBS and Etsy.
Forty-six percent of the Testlio’s employees are women, while the leadership team is more than 50 percent female too.
Here Kristel gives us a glimpse of what her work as a woman in tech entails.
The company is going from strength to strength, which is why it’s kind of funny that Kristel got into tech completely by accident. “When I graduated high school in Estonia, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life,” says the entrepreneur. Her sister, who was living in London at the time, told Kristel to come and live with her and waitress while she figured things out.
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