CTO / Head of Engineering

Stabilize the platform. Make delivery predictable. Scale the team.

I step in when growth exposes the cracks: incidents rise, ownership blurs, and delivery slows. I stabilize operations, make delivery predictable, and align the team on a clear technical direction-without adding bureaucracy.

Best fit: B2B SaaS scaleups where growth is increasing incidents, slowing delivery, and blurring ownership.

Dragan Lalos

Frankfurt, DE

CTO / Engineering Leader • Platform & Reliability

Platform
Resilience under growth

Stability and performance as usage scales.

Org
Teams that ship

Clear ownership, hiring, onboarding, and accountability.

Execution
Delivery system

Cadence, metrics, and prioritization aligned with outcomes.

Leadership

How I Lead Engineering

I build engineering systems that scale: ownership, reliability, and delivery cadence-so leadership can plan, product can commit, and customers feel stability.

Non-negotiables: ownership over activity, metrics over opinions, calm operations over heroics.

Systems

  • Architecture ownership

    Define target architecture and decision-making (ADRs) so teams move fast without rework.

  • Reliability as a function

    Implement SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident response to cut critical incidents and improve resilience.

  • Delivery system

    Standardize CI/CD and infrastructure to make releases predictable, repeatable, and fast.

People & Alignment

  • Team scaling

    Hire, onboard, and mentor engineers; create clear roles, ownership, and growth paths.

  • Cross-functional alignment

    Align engineering, product, and stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and execution cadence.

Expertise

Tech focus

I use technology to produce outcomes: predictable releases, stable operations, and faster iteration.

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React/Next.js
  • Node/Nest.js
  • GraphQL & REST
  • AWS · Terraform · Docker

Practices

  • System design & ADRs
  • SLIs/SLOs & incident response
  • CI/CD & release engineering
  • Observability & performance
  • Team enablement & standards