Lynn Kathomi

People and operations leader with experience building and scaling high performing, distributed teams across Web3, technology, and social impact environments. Combines people strategy with data science to treat the People function as a performance driver that measurably improves delivery speed, talent density, and organizational reliability. Brings strong judgment in lean contexts, balancing empathy with execution, and designing simple, data informed systems that scale across diverse labor markets and cultures.

People and Operations Lead, Distributed Teams at Web3 Clubs (2023-01 – Present)

Led people operations, workforce design, and people analytics for distributed, multi country teams delivering technology products under tight timelines and resource constraints.

• Designed lightweight hiring and onboarding systems across multiple countries, balancing speed, quality, and realistic capacity. Applied early performance signals to assess quality of hire and role fit within the first delivery cycles.
• Treated people systems as performance infrastructure by aligning roles, incentives, and accountability with delivery outcomes. Used delivery reliability, cycle time, and contribution patterns as leading indicators of people system effectiveness.
• Built simple, high signal performance practices including milestone based feedback, role recalibration, and consequence clarity, supported by structured qualitative and quantitative inputs.
• Acted as a trusted advisor on sensitive personnel matters including burnout risk, role misalignment, conflict, and disengagement, using workload signals and engagement data to inform early intervention.
• Partnered with team leads on org design and workforce planning decisions, using headcount, dependency mapping, and workload distribution to guide expansion or contraction.
• Implemented asynchronous first work models and low bandwidth communication norms. Tracked participation patterns and delivery consistency across time zones to ensure equity and effectiveness.
• Developed basic people analytics dashboards tracking retention, engagement signals, delivery reliability, and leadership load to inform staffing, succession, and role redesign decisions.
• Impact included sustained delivery through high pressure phases, reduced mid project dropout, stronger leadership bench development, and improved predictability of execution.

Team Lead and Contributor at NASA Space Apps Challenge and Multi National Hackathons (2022-01 – 2024-12)

Led and contributed to cross functional teams spanning multiple countries and disciplines in high pressure, time bound environments.

• Applied rapid talent assessment and role matching under extreme constraints, observing early performance indicators to optimize team composition.
• Established operating cadences and feedback loops that balanced urgency with sustainability.
• Helped resolve interpersonal and workload conflicts using structured retrospectives and data informed discussions.
• Mentored junior contributors, contributing to long term talent development and knowledge transfer.

Master of Science in Data Science – University of East London

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology – Zetech University