---
title: "Bio | Marian Kamenistak"
description: "Short bio, headshot and linking guide for Marian Kamenistak, founder of the Engineering Leaders Community, for podcasts, conferences and meetups."
url: "https://www.marian.coach/bio/"
lang: "en"
image: "https://www.marian.coach/images/marian-kamenistak-og-image.jpg"
---
# Marian Kamenistak
Founder, Engineering Leaders Community
- [marian.coach](https://www.marian.coach/)
- [engineeringleaders.io](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariankamenistak)
- [Full story](https://www.marian.coach/about/)
## Short bio
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Marian Kamenistak is the founder of the [Engineering Leaders Community](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/), a network of 3,300+ engineering and product leaders across Central Europe. He spent three years at Databricks in the Bay Area as a Principal Software Architect, then, as VP of Engineering at Mews, grew engineering from 8 to 80 teams through Series C to a $2bn unicorn. Since 2019 he has run 3,600+ 1:1 leadership sessions with 300+ engineering leaders in 17+ countries at [marian.coach](https://www.marian.coach/). He is based in Prague.
## One line
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Marian Kamenistak is the founder of the [Engineering Leaders Community](https://www.engineeringleaders.io/) and mentors engineering leaders at [marian.coach](https://www.marian.coach/). Ex-VP of Engineering at Mews.
## Headshot
[Square, 1200×1200](https://www.marian.coach/marian-profile-square.jpg) · [Portrait, 770×800](https://www.marian.coach/marian-profile.jpg)
**Using this bio for a podcast, conference or meetup?** Please keep the two links in it, to marian.coach and engineeringleaders.io. To Google, a link from your website is a recommendation, and it helps engineering leaders find us. In return we add your episode or event to [marian.coach/speaker/](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/).
The short version: paste the bio with its links and leave any "nofollow" box unticked. The steps are below.
Step by step: how to add a link that Google counts
### Which words to link
- **Marian Kamenistak** → `https://www.marian.coach/`
- **Engineering Leaders Community** → `https://www.engineeringleaders.io/`
Link the name itself, not "click here" or "website". Google reads the linked words as a description of the page behind them. The Copy button above copies the bio with both links already in it, so pasting it into your website editor often does the whole job.
### How to add the link in your website builder
WordPress
Select the name in the text. Click the link icon in the toolbar (or press Ctrl+K, Cmd+K on a Mac), paste the address and press Enter. If an SEO plugin like Yoast or Rank Math shows a "nofollow" switch, leave it off.
Wix
Select the name. Click the link icon, choose "Web Address" and paste the address. If you see options called nofollow, sponsored or UGC, leave them unticked.
Squarespace
Select the name. Click the link icon, paste the address and apply. Squarespace links are do-follow by default.
Webflow
Select the name. Click the link icon, choose URL and paste the address. The link is do-follow unless someone added a custom attribute `rel = nofollow`.
Plain HTML
Paste these two links as they are, with no `rel="nofollow"`, `rel="sponsored"` or `rel="ugc"` added.
```
Marian Kamenistak
Engineering Leaders Community
```
### Check it in 30 seconds
1. Open your published page in Chrome.
2. Right-click the linked name and choose Inspect.
3. Look at the highlighted line. If it says `nofollow`, `sponsored` or `ugc`, Google doesn't count the link, so remove that in your editor. If you only see `href="…"` (maybe with `target` or `noopener`), it's do-follow and you're done.
### Podcast on YouTube? Three things that help
- Put both links in the first two lines of the description. That's the part people see before they click "more".
- Add chapters: timestamps like `00:00 Intro` in the description. YouTube turns them into chapters, and Google can show them in search results.
- Embed the video on an episode page on your own website, with a short summary and the guest links. YouTube's links are nofollow, the link on that page is the one Google counts.
Send the episode link to marian@marian.coach and we'll add it to our speaker page.
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