Position: Director of Engineering | Chief of Staff to the CTO
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

Ideation, execution and follow up of company wide processes and engineering initiatives such as:

• Build new teams and product domains by attracting, developing, and retaining the best people (Revamped our interviewing process and our relevant career paths. Remaining relevant to a constantly changing market while maintaining our standards and quality)

• Shifting the focus to the impact by forming OKRs & related Quarter planning approach

• Sustainable scaling through Standards & Processes (Limited Toolbelt) while building μservices and decomposing our monolith

• Clear areas of responsibility and clarity for how to approach cross-cutting features/initiatives were established with Component Ownership in combination with Innersource

• Partner cross-functionally to maximize the effectiveness of the technical roadmap for the business. Identifying roadblocks preventing the success of strategic areas and find resolutions

• Balance the creation of new functionality for current and future users' needs, infrastructure management, and the elimination of technical debt

• “Drawing the bigger picture” of our technological vision/strategy by forming a high level target architecture per domain but also connecting the dots between domains

• Empower the engineering team towards innovation and focus on continuously delivering value to our users (influenced by Agile practices and DevOps practices)
Building & growing engineering teams of product domains. Scaling organisations in a sustainable way.

Over 17 years of experience in software development. Passionate about Agile software development and DevOps practices.

Support and direct change management throughout the CTO, essential to the successful delivery of enterprise-wide technology modernization for our three Engineering hubs (Athens, Amsterdam and Mexico - an Engineering organization of almost 250 people). 

Ideation, execution and follow up of company wide processes such as the formation of OKRs and the Quarter planning. Promoting a continuous improvement, goal-setting, and milestone-reaching culture, ensuring the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices.

Cross-Cutting Engineering initiatives towards our technological vision/strategy. Aiming to provide autonomy between domains. At the same time establishing minimum standardisation for a sustainable way forward while scaling up.

Senior Engineering Manager of more than 10 teams under various product domains, with a proven record of team leadership, system analysis, design and development of distributed systems. Considering purpose, great culture and technical excellence as the main drivers to impactful delivery in a sustainable way.

Experienced and certified Agile Coach, capable of delivering software products by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching teams at scaled environments. Expert at driving the adoption of Scrum rules, Extreme Programming (XP) practices and other Agile methodologies like Lean and Kanban by fostering self-management. Able to assist in introducing organization-level changes that improve organizational agility, kick-start new domains with multiple teams and facilitate cross-domain meetings and workshops.
- Interesting company product / mission
- Lead Engineering teams/department facing challenges while trying to scale up. Trying to balance technical excellence, fast execution/delivery and quality