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. Interactive maps for the NFL Super Bowl, NBA All-Star Weekend, and the Smithsonian. A privacy-first personal data store. A Dutch health app reshaping how citizens access their own medical records under MedMij. Dev environments that spin up from a Slack command and clean themselves up. The common thread every time: a team that trusts each other, 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 — and I've spent much of my career running distributed teams across the US, Europe, and Bosnia, where I've been fortunate to help seed 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 roughly 10x, and rebuilt developer experience so Time-to-First-API-call dropped from hours to five minutes. Shipped a dozen-plus 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.