KRISZTIAN VERESS,
I do Business and IT Efficiency.
As an independent consultant and interim leader, I help startup founders, SMBs, and portfolio companies of private and institutional investors to achieve optimal business and IT efficiency. I conduct 360° IT and business audits, plan and deliver more efficient and automated businesses and IT workstreams.
I am always open to new challenges, so feel free to give me a call and discuss how I could help.
Professional Career
“It's not the years in your life that count, rather the life in your years.”
Startup Acceleration Training
Venturelab, Switzerland
Executive MBA
Quantic, USA
MBA
Swiss Business School, Switzerland
My business side
For the past three years, I have served as interim deputy CEO and Head of IT at Hungary’s leading fintech company, where I played a leading role in the company’s organizational development, recruiting, project management, and product development processes. I was the architect and CTO of the first European SaaS fully digital mortgage platform with 4 bank integrations and I was responsible for the business strategy, legal compliance, bank negotiations and joint development processes.
As an independent consultant and interim fractional C-level staff, I help my clients build sustainable, automated workstreams, self-driving, stable, monitored business processes as well as planning and migration to zero maintenance IT systems.
Having a strong background in IT productivity, my focus is on creating efficient business processes and building sustainable, low-cost, automated, self-driving businesses.
In addition to my IT development and management qualifications and experience, I have completed two MBAs, startup training courses in acceleration, capital raising and efficient operations.
Head of IT
Bankmonitor
Senior Lead Productivity Software Engineer
Google Switzerland GmbH
Computer Science MSc
SZTE, Hungary
Software Engineering MSc
SZTE, Hungary
My IT side
At Bankmonitor I led the design, development and launch of the first European multitenant fully digital mortgage SaaS platform, while moonshotting the IT team's and company's development mindset, growing the teams, streamlining cooperation and hot-swapping the architecture and devops to highly efficient, secure cloud-native workflows.
Since 2012 I am working in multicultural, cross-functional, remote software development teams, acting in many leader (CIO, TLM, TL) and individual contributor roles.
At Google I was a Tech Lead in the Zürich Engineering Productivity team, where our focus was in organizational change management, DevOps, delivering automation frameworks, tooling and increasing developer velocity. On the technical level, I took part in the design, development, maintenance, migration and validation of multi-regional, highly scalable, low-latency mission-critical systems.
My IT career started when I started programming at 6. After high school I completed two parallel MSc programs and worked for 5 years as assistant lecturer to collect as much foundational training as I can. I also completed a Computer Science PhD program, doing research in Wireless Sensor Network topology and MAC protocol optimization.
Core Competencies
“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.”
C-level Tech Leadership
As a participative leader I have 8+ years of experience in creating, leading and overseeing scrum teams, IT organizations, and full fintech business strategies. I am happy to contribute as a developer, since that gives me the deepest insight into the problems, but my skills are best utilized as a strategic technical team leader.
Technological Mindset
Shift-left, full CI/CD, readable, high code quality defines my technological mindset, while transparency, public recognition of bugs, mentoring, and prompt feedback define my leadership approach.
Zero Maintenance IT
At Google I perfected the zero-maintenance IT system mindset and methodology, which I apply and further develop at every level (design, development, release) of my work. With AI-assisted SSDLCs, this mindset is even more important.
Software Development
Designing, implementing and migrating large-scale systems using Go/C++/Python/Java, gRPC/OpenAPI, EKS/GKE and SNS/SQS/PubSub, NoSQL/SQL based architectures is my bread and butter.
Negotiation techniques
I have deep expertise and experience in distributive and integrative negotiation techniques that have helped me and my clients achieve the best one-off and long-term deals.
Project Management
Leading IT and business projects, working with C-level stakeholders and cross-functional teams in multiple timezones and cultures is second nature to me. I am apt in Agile, OKRs, and perform under deadline pressure.