# Natalia Panowicz

> Natalia Panowicz is the CEO and co-founder of Codility, a technical assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to evaluate developers. Trained as a psychologist, she joined Codility in 2012 as a business developer, became COO in 2014, and stepped into the CEO seat in July 2019. She has helped grow the company past 140 employees across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco, and led the raise of a $22M Series A in 2020.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Codility
- **Organizations:** Codility, Forbes HR Council
- **From:** Poland
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Education:** Master's, Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu), Master in General Management, Vlerick Business School
- **Known for:** Scaled Codility past 100 employees without institutional venture capital before raising Series A, Led $22M Series A financing announced in early 2020, Expanded Codility from Europe into the US, with offices across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco

## Career timeline

- **2009** — Project Coordinator at Forum for Dialogue
- **2011** — Consultant at Durabilis
- **2012** — Joined Codility as Business Developer
- **2014** — Promoted to Chief Operating Officer at Codility
- **2019** — Appointed CEO of Codility
- **2020** — Led $22M Series A funding round
- **2023** — Codility debuts assessment of AI-assisted coding
- **2025** — Announced Codility Skills Intelligence

## Achievements

- Scaled Codility past 100 employees without institutional venture capital before raising Series A
- Led $22M Series A financing announced in early 2020
- Expanded Codility from Europe into the US, with offices across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco
- Member of the Forbes Human Resources Council
- Grew Codility to serve some of the largest technology employers in the world

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Announced Codility Skills Intelligence, a product for internal skills mapping and gap analysis.
- **2023-08** — Codility debuted assessment features for AI-assisted coding under her leadership.

## Links

- Website: https://codility.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliapanowicz/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/codility
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Codility/

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Last updated: 2026-07-09