Interim Head of Engineering
Aktualisiert am 30.03.2026
Profil
Freiberufler / Selbstständiger
Remote-Arbeit
Verfügbar ab: 13.03.2026
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 40%
Scrum Master
Engineering Leadership
Head of Engineering
SAFe
Team Coaching
Backlog Management
Release Planning
Retrospectives
Facilitation
Technical Leadership
English
C2
Croatian
native
German
A2

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

München (+50km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2026 - today: AI-powered transformation

Role: Managing Director & Board Member
Customer: Product Company, Munich

Tasks:
  • Strategic leadership for product, engineering, and business operations
  • Driving AI-first engineering transformation with AI-assisted development workflows

2023 - 2026: various

Role: Head of Engineering
Customer: Product Company, Munich

Tasks:
  • Grew and shaped a 20-person engineering organization, establishing delivery culture, hiring practices and technical direction for a product serving 500K users
  • Owned ?1M annual budget across infrastructure, security and stakeholder-facing vendor relationships
  • Introduced engineering-wide OKRs and a delivery rhythm the business came to rely on

2021 - 2023: various

Role: Senior Scrum Master
Customer: Investment Bank, Zurich

Tasks:
  • Coached 15 senior architects in a regulated banking environment; earned their trust by understanding the code, not just the process
  • Redesigned delivery workflows to work within banking compliance and CI/CD constraints
  • Built lasting partnerships with DevOps, Security, and QA vendors

2019 - 2021: Application Engineering

Role: Head of Application Engineering
Customer: Product Company, Munich

Tasks:
  • Built the engineering team from 3 to 20+ people; hiring, architecture, team topology and delivery model all shaped from scratch
  • Designed and ran the full technical hiring process, conducting 100+ interviews

2015 - 2019: Profit and loss responsibility for customer projects

Role: Managing Director
Customer: various

Tasks:
  • Inherited a company on the verge of closure and rebuilt it into a profitable operation with 26 people
  • Full P&L responsibility across 40+ client projects including ProSieben and Wagner

2013 - 2015: Projects in the telecommunications sector

Role: Android Team Lead
Customer: Software Agency, Croatia

Tasks:
Led the Android team across 20+ projects, introducing CI/CD and agile ways of working

2011 - 2013: Software development

Role: Software Developer
Customer: various

Tasks:
Hands-on software development across Android, Java, and full-stack 70+ applications shipped

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2020 - today
EMBA, eLeadership
Algebra/ Kelley School of Business

2006 - 2011
Study - Computer Science
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Osijek
Degree: Master of Science

CERTIFICATIONS
  • Coaching: ICF-PCC (in progress), EPCC (Erickson)
  • Agile: CSP-SM, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, SAFe 4 Agilist, Scrum@Scale
  • Business: EMBA (Kelley School of Business), MSc Computer Science

Position

Position

  • Technical Agile Coach
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Agile Coaching
  • AI Transformation

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Scrum Master Engineering Leadership Head of Engineering SAFe Team Coaching Backlog Management Release Planning Retrospectives Facilitation Technical Leadership

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

PROFILE
Technical Agile Coach deeply rooted in software engineering and hands-on leadership. Shaped by building software, growing engineering teams from the ground up, and turning around a company as Managing Director. Equally at home in a codebase and a boardroom ? and trusted by senior engineers because of it. Now driving AI-first engineering transformation.

TECHNICAL FOUNDATION
  • Software Engineering: Kotlin, Java, C#, .NET, Android, AWS, Microservices
  • DevOps & Delivery: CI/CD, TDD, Code Review, API Design, Release Management
  • AI: Claude, MCP, ChatGPT

COACHING & TRANSFORMATION
  • Transformation: Agile Transformation, Change Management, Organizational Development, Continuous Improvement
  • Coaching: Servant Leadership, Facilitation, Workshop Design, Training, Mentoring, Conflict Resolution
  • Delivery: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Lean, OKRs, Agile Metrics, Cross-functional Teams, SDLC

TOOLS
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • GitHub
  • AWS
  • Slack

Branchen

Branchen

  • Financial Services
  • B2C Product
  • Digital Agencies
  • Telecom

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

München (+50km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

2026 - today: AI-powered transformation

Role: Managing Director & Board Member
Customer: Product Company, Munich

Tasks:
  • Strategic leadership for product, engineering, and business operations
  • Driving AI-first engineering transformation with AI-assisted development workflows

2023 - 2026: various

Role: Head of Engineering
Customer: Product Company, Munich

Tasks:
  • Grew and shaped a 20-person engineering organization, establishing delivery culture, hiring practices and technical direction for a product serving 500K users
  • Owned ?1M annual budget across infrastructure, security and stakeholder-facing vendor relationships
  • Introduced engineering-wide OKRs and a delivery rhythm the business came to rely on

2021 - 2023: various

Role: Senior Scrum Master
Customer: Investment Bank, Zurich

Tasks:
  • Coached 15 senior architects in a regulated banking environment; earned their trust by understanding the code, not just the process
  • Redesigned delivery workflows to work within banking compliance and CI/CD constraints
  • Built lasting partnerships with DevOps, Security, and QA vendors

2019 - 2021: Application Engineering

Role: Head of Application Engineering
Customer: Product Company, Munich

Tasks:
  • Built the engineering team from 3 to 20+ people; hiring, architecture, team topology and delivery model all shaped from scratch
  • Designed and ran the full technical hiring process, conducting 100+ interviews

2015 - 2019: Profit and loss responsibility for customer projects

Role: Managing Director
Customer: various

Tasks:
  • Inherited a company on the verge of closure and rebuilt it into a profitable operation with 26 people
  • Full P&L responsibility across 40+ client projects including ProSieben and Wagner

2013 - 2015: Projects in the telecommunications sector

Role: Android Team Lead
Customer: Software Agency, Croatia

Tasks:
Led the Android team across 20+ projects, introducing CI/CD and agile ways of working

2011 - 2013: Software development

Role: Software Developer
Customer: various

Tasks:
Hands-on software development across Android, Java, and full-stack 70+ applications shipped

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2020 - today
EMBA, eLeadership
Algebra/ Kelley School of Business

2006 - 2011
Study - Computer Science
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Osijek
Degree: Master of Science

CERTIFICATIONS
  • Coaching: ICF-PCC (in progress), EPCC (Erickson)
  • Agile: CSP-SM, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, SAFe 4 Agilist, Scrum@Scale
  • Business: EMBA (Kelley School of Business), MSc Computer Science

Position

Position

  • Technical Agile Coach
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Agile Coaching
  • AI Transformation

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Scrum Master Engineering Leadership Head of Engineering SAFe Team Coaching Backlog Management Release Planning Retrospectives Facilitation Technical Leadership

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

PROFILE
Technical Agile Coach deeply rooted in software engineering and hands-on leadership. Shaped by building software, growing engineering teams from the ground up, and turning around a company as Managing Director. Equally at home in a codebase and a boardroom ? and trusted by senior engineers because of it. Now driving AI-first engineering transformation.

TECHNICAL FOUNDATION
  • Software Engineering: Kotlin, Java, C#, .NET, Android, AWS, Microservices
  • DevOps & Delivery: CI/CD, TDD, Code Review, API Design, Release Management
  • AI: Claude, MCP, ChatGPT

COACHING & TRANSFORMATION
  • Transformation: Agile Transformation, Change Management, Organizational Development, Continuous Improvement
  • Coaching: Servant Leadership, Facilitation, Workshop Design, Training, Mentoring, Conflict Resolution
  • Delivery: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, Lean, OKRs, Agile Metrics, Cross-functional Teams, SDLC

TOOLS
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • GitHub
  • AWS
  • Slack

Branchen

Branchen

  • Financial Services
  • B2C Product
  • Digital Agencies
  • Telecom

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