Czechia · Poland · US
Turning the
ship around.
Sr. Engineering Director & Site Lead 2025–2026
Transformed a legacy application into a cloud-native product and shifted engineering from firefighting to systematically fixing root causes, while redesigning teams and engineering practices for AI-agentic delivery.
2×Delivery throughput +
Embedded AI across product and engineering, deployed autonomous agents, redesigned teams into smaller autonomous units, and strengthened security and quality guardrails.
−35%L2 support MTTR +
AI cloud agents investigated and fixed issues. Alongside faster resolution, L2 support throughput increased by 300%.
−60%Non-COGS +
Saved $500k a year through ephemeral environments and moving testing from the cloud to local hardware.
Release cyclesMonthsHours
An organisation-wide transition to continuous delivery.
The wider remit +
- Led a product organisation of approximately 80 ICs and $80M+ ARR, representing engineering as Prague Site Lead.
- Created a startup-like team outside the legacy organisation to accelerate AI product innovation and earn Gartner recognition.
- Moved engineering from firefighting to systematic root-cause remediation with a dedicated team.
- Set technical direction across scalability, resilience, data isolation and observability, making the product the company’s most secure and cloud-native offering.
- Platformised shared data and event infrastructure for use across products and customer integrations.
Role ended in 2026 as part of broader layoffs.
Czechia · US · India
From startup scrappy
to enterprise ready.
Engineering Director & Site Lead 2019–2023
Growing the team and technology to meet enterprise expectations after acquisition.
15→~50ICs in the product org. +
Scaled the product organisation as the business grew from a startup into an enterprise-ready operation.
+25%Productivity +
Increased productivity by 25% and retention by 20% while growing the organisation.
−50%COGS +
Cut production infrastructure costs by 50% while improving product availability.
Product directionAI/MLNew product line
Championed AI and machine learning to open up a new product line.
The wider remit +
- Led product and engineering changes that helped earn Gartner and Forrester recognition.
- Drove FedRAMP, SOC2 and GDPR compliance, translating audit requirements into engineering work and coordinating delivery across functions.
- Enabled a zero-bug policy by systematically reducing technical debt.
United Kingdom · Hong Kong
Rewiring
global R&D.
R&D Transformation Lead 2017–2019
Moving a global payments organisation from waterfall to product teams and modern engineering practices.
Stronger engineering performance.
Restructured a 300-person global R&D organisation into autonomous business domains aligned with OKRs, contributing to the successful $700M acquisition of WorldFirst by AntFinance. Coached leaders in building high-performing teams.
Better quality. More predictable delivery.
Introduced DORA metrics and modern engineering practices — DDD, TDD, DevOps and scaled Scrum — to improve delivery quality and predictability. Scaled Communities of Practice globally.
From project management to product management.
Formed outcome-focused teams spanning engineering, product, compliance and marketing, reducing time to market from quarters to months. Trained teams to use data and customer feedback in product decisions.
United Kingdom
Beyond
project delivery.
Head of Development 2013–2015
Bringing product thinking, agile practices and a SaaS platform strategy into an agency.
Industry-recognised digital products.
Directed a cross-functional Engineering, IT and Operations team to deliver web and mobile solutions recognised by the industry.
Technology investment tied to growth.
Led business development, customer relationships, vendor partnerships and budgets, aligning technology investments with the agency’s growth goals.
Stronger teams. Greater trust.
Strengthened accountability to improve team performance and make engineering a more trusted partner to the rest of the business.
From projects to a platform.
Introduced a SaaS platform strategy and modern engineering practices, improving delivery efficiency, product quality and long-term maintainability.
Czechia
Making a large-scale product
easier to change.
Engineering Manager & Scrum Master 2012–2013
Helping three distributed teams work more predictably on Sklik, Seznam’s advertising service.
Knowledge spread beyond individuals.
Improved the bus factor by helping teams share more of the product and technical knowledge that had previously sat with a few people.
More predictable work across teams.
Strengthened collaboration between distributed teams and facilitated difficult technical discussions around large-scale system problems.
Agile practice beyond one team.
Promoted Agile and XP practices across the company and organised public workshops to share what we were learning.
