CTO · VP/SVP Engineering · 25+ years · Boston & remote across the US.
I build and scale the teams, platforms, and products behind companies that matter, from the first engineer through post-acquisition at global scale.
Get in touch →Over 25+ years I've been the senior-most technology leader at four companies: two I helped build from the earliest stage, and two I helped integrate post-acquisition - first The Map Network into NAVTEQ and then NOKIA, most recently Personal into digi.me and then World Data Exchange.
I've grown engineering organizations from 3 to 100+, raised roughly $12M in venture capital, stood up DevSecOps and ethical-hacking practices to protect highly sensitive personal data, and worked with the Dutch government on national-scale health infrastructure.
What I love most is turning a messy problem and a small team into a product people use every day. I built interactive maps for the NFL Super Bowl, NBA All‑Star Weekend, and the Smithsonian. I helped create a privacy‑first personal data store and a Dutch health app that lets citizens access their medical records under MedMij. My team developed tools that spin up dev environments from a Slack command and clean themselves up to save on cloud costs. The common thread every time is a team that trusts one another, product and engineering rowing together, and a bias for shipping.
Originally from Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, I've lived and worked in New York, London, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and now Boston. I've spent much of my career running distributed teams across the US, Europe, and Bosnia, where I've had the privilege of seeding a generation of technology talent.
Leading engineering, product, DevOps, data science, and QA across a globally distributed 30+ team, consolidating product and technology from digi.me post-acquisition under a single architecture and roadmap. Extended the privacy-first platform to support FHIR-based Unified Health Records under MedMij in the Netherlands. Engineers self-serve dev/test environments from a Slack channel via infrastructure-as-code.
Oversaw Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Data across a 50+ global team. Re-architected the core SaaS platform to expand TAM 10x, and rebuilt developer experience so Time-to-First-API-call dropped from hours to five minutes. Shipped more than a dozen reference apps and ran global hackathons to validate partner-market fit.
Co-founded the privacy-first Personal Data Store. Built engineering, data, and product organizations to 50+, including DevSecOps and ethical hacking programs to protect highly sensitive personal data. Personal was the first organization recognized as a Privacy by Design Ambassador by Dr. Ann Cavoukian. Represented the company publicly on privacy and identity, including at SXSW Interactive.
Wrote the first version of the product, a vector-map engine rendering Census data into beautiful, zoom-independent maps, at a time when MapQuest was state of the art. Grew the engineering and product organization from 2 to 100+ while serving city CVBs and enterprise partners including the NFL Super Bowl, NBA All-Star Weekend, the Smithsonian Institution, and major events and tradeshows. Acquired into NAVTEQ and then NOKIA.
I'm looking for a senior technology leadership role: CTO, SVP/VP Engineering, or Director of Engineering, remote-first and US-based. Particularly interested in SaaS, consumer, health, privacy, sports, travel, and any team where a craft-forward, people-first technology leader would make a difference.
If that's you, or someone you know, I'd love to talk.