Portrait of Kristijan Lenković

Kristijan Lenković.

Based in CroatiaA global perspective.

ENGINEERING & IT LEADERSHIP

I deliver software.
I grow teams.

I lead engineering teams and IT operations, connecting business priorities with the people and technology that deliver them.

17+years delivering software
5 → 78people in a department I grew
Founderstarted and led a software company
01 /

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

Company-wide change.

Restructured a technology company’s business model and internal operations, with responsibility for both development delivery and IT.

Cloud-native transformation.

Led a cross-functional task force driving a multi-year move to cloud-native platforms.

Trust built into delivery.

Made signed, traceable software builds a company-wide standard and unified release practices across engineering.

02 /LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE

My approach.

01

Give people ownership.

I develop leaders, make responsibilities clear, and give teams room to make decisions.

  • Team design
  • Leadership & mentoring
02

Stay close to the work.

I connect strategy to architecture and delivery, staying technical enough to challenge assumptions and help solve difficult problems.

  • Software architecture
  • Cloud platforms
  • Kubernetes (K8s)
03

Make reliability a habit.

I bring development and operations together, making security and dependable releases part of everyday engineering.

  • DevSecOps
  • CI/CD
  • Software supply-chain security
04

AI, with judgment.

I use coding agents to explore, build, and learn. Architecture decisions, review, and accountability stay with people.

  • AI-assisted engineering
  • Agentic workflows
  • Human review
03 /THE TOOLS BEHIND THE WORK

Technologies.

ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

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what’s next.

Head of Engineering, Head of IT, CTO, or a related leadership role. If you see a fit, let’s talk.

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