gabortill.com

Help software engineers become strategic leaders through personalized coaching and actionable strategies.

Created Tech Lead Mastery, a 6-month interactive program helping engineers master leadership skills and career advancement.

Host workshops and events that teach engineers how to build high-performing teams and influence stakeholders.

Provide tailored resources to simplify leadership and career growth for mid- and senior-level engineers.

Founder of Tech Lead Mastery | Leadership Coaching for Engineers

Atradius

When Atradius embarked on the transformative journey of bringing IT development in-house, I was entrusted with the task. Spearheading the inaugural in-house team in the Channels division was both a challenge and an honor. From hiring to setting up processes and ensuring efficient deliverables, I've fostered a culture of excellence. Today, with a mix of talent from Amsterdam to Madrid and beyond, I'm cultivating the future tech leaders of the industry. Building teams, bridging geographical gaps, and aligning with long-term goals — that's a day in my life at Atradius.

Engineering Manager

VodafoneZiggo

Reforming a dynamic team at Vodafone, I took on the mission to migrate the extensive Vodafone Enterprise Portal. From AngularJS to React and introducing NestJS middleware, our tech overhaul was comprehensive. As a Scrum Master, I introduced agile methodologies, ensuring that team dynamics were at their peak and individual performances shined. Weekly conversations with Agile Coaches and regular strategic meetings ensured we stayed ahead of challenges.

Scrum Master & Frontend Developer

Veen Bosch & Keuning Uitgevers Groep B.V.

Stepping into the vast world of the largest publisher in the Netherlands, I had my eyes set on innovation. Leading the rewrite of bookchoice.com and bruna.nl wasn't just about code; it was about crafting user experiences. Beyond projects, I had the privilege to step into the shoes of my mentor, inheriting the wisdom and challenges of being an Engineering Manager. From introducing a Scrum scoring system to spearheading remote work strategies during the COVID era, I was at the forefront of change.

Engineering Manager & Lead Frontend Developer

Harlem Next B.V.

I wore two hats: A Lead Front-end Developer and a Mentor. Crafting landing pages and dashboards with Vue.js was one part of the job; mentoring three budding engineers was where my passion truly shone. Together, we navigated the worlds of technology and soft skills, ensuring they were equipped for the challenges of tomorrow.

Lead Frontend Developer & Mentor

Joining KPN was a lesson in the power of Scrum done right. While developing in-house products, I had the opportunity to introduce innovative concepts like Feature Flag, ES6, and the BEM naming convention. It wasn't just about code; it was about improving processes and enhancing user experiences.

AngularJS Front-end Developer

comScore, Inc.

My journey abroad began with comScore in Amsterdam—a milestone that significantly amplified my professional growth. Here, I was entrusted with maintaining four intricate analytics tools, akin to giants like Google Analytics. Working with AngularJS, I delved into the complexities of constructing expansive applications that demanded efficiency and performance. Though the acquisition by Adobe marked an unforeseen chapter's end, the learning and experiences at comScore solidified my foundation in front-end technologies and large-scale application development.

JavaScript Developer

Westline Webworks Ltd

At Westline, innovation met opportunity. Entrusted with a pioneering video-based project, I dived deep into the world of HTML5 video and AngularJS. Crafting a robust app tailored for mobile and tablet users was both challenging and rewarding. Navigating through the relatively new territories of AngularJS and HTML5 video was a testament to my passion for exploring the uncharted.

Front-end developer

BIG FISH Internet Technology Ltd

Joining BIG FISH, I was promised expansive opportunities to work with JavaScript. Although we embarked on an exciting project to redesign Hungary's largest online bookstore, the nature of the role didn't align with the vision I had. Our paths diverged as I became more determined to find a role that genuinely resonated with my expertise and aspirations.

arukereso.hu

My foray into the professional IT realm began at árukereső.hu. With the burgeoning mobile era, I championed the redesign of the platform's mobile interface, working hands-on with technologies like PHP Smarty, jQuery, Less CSS, and HTML5. It was an enlightening phase, witnessing the onset of revolutionary JavaScript frameworks. However, when my aspirations leaned more towards JavaScript, I realized it was time for a new chapter.

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People & Process Driven Freelance Engineering Manager | Cultivating High-Performing Dev Teams Across Borders

I’m Gábor, and I help mid- and senior-level software engineers to become impactful tech leaders.

I started my career as a web developer and, over the years, worked my way up to lead developer and then engineering manager. Along the way, I faced the same challenges many engineers encounter when stepping into leadership, such as balancing technical responsibilities with managing people, learning how to influence without authority, and making decisions that impact the bigger picture.

What made the difference for me was a mentor who helped me navigate these shifts. That experience saved me years of trial and error, and it’s why I’m so passionate about helping others who are ready to take their next big career step.

Through 1-on-1 coaching, I work with software engineers to:

👉 Prepare for leadership roles by building the right skills and mindset.
👉 Simplify the shift from coding to team leadership with actionable guidance.
👉 Overcome common hurdles like managing performance, communication, and trust.

I’ve been where you are, and I know how hard it can be to move forward when leadership feels exciting, but overwhelming. My coaching isn’t about theory—it’s about clear steps that help you grow into the leader your team needs.

If you’re a software engineer looking to take your career to the next level, let’s connect.

You will find lots of useful and free resources on my website at gabortill.com

Gábor Till

Multiple Clients

I work with CEOs and CTOs of growing SaaS companies to enable their engineering departments to generate more business value. These are some common problems I can help you solve:

🤦‍♂️ Our engineering department doubled in size, but productivity hit a brick wall!
🤷‍♂️ We’re totally dependent on the agency that developed our MVP!
🤑 Engineering is a Cost Centre instead of a Profit Centre!
🙏 Engineering Management Guidance Needed

Hire me as your CTO in a fractional capacity, or to troubleshoot a specific problem.

CTO | Coach & Mentor for Engineering Execs

CTO Logic

Writing a newsletter that delivers pragmatic, hard-earned advice for professionals at the intersection of software engineering, tech management, leadership, and business.

Chief Logician

Logiq Labs

✅ Managed 120 people (~90 engineers and product managers), across multiple sites internationally. 
✅ Led development of a FinTech B2B2C SaaS asset trading platform and scaled it to handle $180+ billion in annual trading volume.
✅ Led deployment and scaling of internally developed Marketing Automation platform (B2B2C SaaS) to successfully handle 9 million monthly unique visitors.
✅ Doubled the size of product & engineering department; led organisational transformation through mergers, spinoffs and implementation of Agile methodology. Member of executive management team. VP Engineering and VP Product reported to me.
✅ Managed comprehensive re-architecting, rewrite and successful deployment of internally developed B2B2C payments processing solution.

Chief Technology Officer

Responsible for engineering department of 40 people.

Director of Research & Development

Morpheus Games

✔ Set up the company's engineering department and grew it to 13 members, in Israel and Kyiv, Ukraine.
✔ Worked with my teams to deliver the company's lottery tickets and betting e-commerce platform, and first B2C product, within 8 months (industry typical: 1 year).
✔ Provided technical and managerial oversight (and mentoring where required), and guided architectural decisions.
✔ Established standard and consistent processes for recruiting, evaluating employee performance, designing new functionality, managing the software development life-cycle (SDLC), controlling technical debt, deploying code, handling and resolving production issues.
✔ Invested heavily in automating every step of the development, testing and deployment pipeline (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, AWS EC2 and ECS) to support CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment).
✔ My department successfully passed multiple audits mandated by relevant governmental regulatory and standards bodies, based on the ISO 27001 information security standard. These examined both our internal engineering methodologies, processes and information systems, as well as the security of the deployed product, including undergoing (and surviving) penetration testing. These efforts also contributed greatly to being able to achieve PCI/DSS compliance.

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Jargon for keyword bingo players: Angular 5, Amazon Web Services, Node.js, microservices, using AWS SNS/SQS as an event bus, ELK (Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana) for logging and monitoring, Agile.

Director of R&D

Snappers.tv

Finalist - 4YFN competition at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona 2016

http://www.snappers.tv

Independent Consultant

✔ Development of web apps (Google Closure Library/Compiler, AngularJS, Bootstrap) including backends (Google AppEngine (Python), Node.js, Firebase, PHP, Heroku, Amazon EC2 & various cloud services) and even Outlook Add-ins (VB).
✔ Worked with a long term client on a concept that challenged conventional assumptions, and iterated it until it was mature enough and successful enough to be mainstreamed into production at the client's IT department.
✔ Work remotely, coordinating and collaborating with client teams.
✔ Experience with analytics and multivariate testing to increase conversions.
✔ Experience with spreadsheet & visualization techniques to support data driven decisions, for both engineering decisions and determining business goals.
✔ Worked with lawyers / corporate counsel to minimize client risk exposure, ensure compliance with relevant regulations, and to compose EULAs.

Technology & Product Management Advisor / Full Stack Developer

Claritude Software

Claritude Software's mission is to help busy people overcome email overload and increase their productivity. Our first product is SpeedFiler, a powerful add-in for Microsoft Outlook that makes it extremely easy to file incoming and outgoing email. SpeedFiler's super-fast, find-as-you-type folder selection window makes filing almost effortless, even if you have a deep hierarchy of hundreds of folders. When you send a message, SpeedFiler can prompt you to select a folder in which to file it, so you don't have to dump it in Sent Items. Supports Outlook 2003 and 2007. Ideal for busy people with full inboxes.

✔ Identified the problem and corresponding market niche and devised a product (SpeedFiler) with a simple, streamlined UX/UI that masked complexities of the solution.
✔ Sold multiple enterprise licences (1000+ seats) and tens of thousands of small business licenses.
✔ Developed partnerships with industry-specific enterprise resellers.
✔ Set up website; wrote sales and suppport content; integrated with credit card / invoice processing system; used web analytics and multivariate testing to improve conversions.
✔ Set up a blog to help market the product by becoming recognized as a thought leader in the relevant space. This led to quotes in other blogs, print magazines, radio shows and even a book!
✔ Worked with outsourced contractors to produce various components.

Founder & CEO

Finjan

Finjan Software (www.finjan.com), since acquired by Trustwave (www.trustwave.com), is a leading provider of proactive secure content management solutions for global enterprises, protecting over 4 million enterprise users from existing and future Internet threats.

✔ Member of executive team, reported to CEO 
✔ Initiated product management function; recruited and nurtured a cohesive team of 3 product managers and 2 technical writers
✔ Led migration of product portfolio from software to appliances; developed vision and requirements for an innovative next-generation product line and supervised its successful execution
✔ Acted as catalyst for development of revolutionary technology for the new generation product line
✔ Overall strategic and tactical responsibility for 9 products
✔ Active participant in strategic sales efforts to global corporations (including multiple successful deals of over 100,000 seats/$3M each) and in OEM and technology partner relationships
✔ Spokesman for press interviews, webinars, etc.

VP Product Management

Alchemedia

Alchemedia Technologies developed enterprise security products that prevent information theft by trusted insiders - today's costliest information security problem.

After leaving Alchemedia, I participated in the design review for Microsoft Windows Rights Management platform in Redmond. Microsoft has recently (2005) licensed Alchemedia's technology for use in their security products.

✔ Joined as Senior Product Manager; promoted to Director; reported to VP Marketing
✔ Initiated product management function at the company; built, trained, managed and mentored a team of 3 product managers and 2 technical writers
✔ Overall tactical responsibility for the product line; feature roadmaps, functional specifications, delivery schedules and marshalling products through Engineering and QA; technical white papers
✔ Cooperated with partners on integrated products 
✔ Held pre/post-sale contacts with global corporations; participated in sales/business development activities.

Director of Product Management

Better On-line Solutions

Better On-line Solutions (www.bosweb.com, NASDAQ: BOSC) develops Voice-over-IP Telephony solutions and networking products for personal and IBM mid-range computers.
 
✔ Managed an e-commerce development product for IBM platforms, developed in cooperation with IBM.
✔ Responsible for technical relationship with IBM; coordinated development with senior IBM staff, including the chief security architect and managers of the HTTP and FTP server products. 
✔ Defined the functional specifications, designed the system architecture, object model and user interface. 
✔ Represented company at trade shows; delivered lectures and presentations at distributor and customer conferences. 
✔ Interviewed and hired prospective team-member candidates.

Product Manager / Team Leader

Engineering Management Expert • Fractional CTO • Remote • 🇮🇱

I help CTOs and Engineering VPs become indispensable by teaching them how to deliver high impact business outcomes, based on a strategic approach and tactical execution, through two 1:1 weekly programmes:

1. Indispensable CTO — Deliver High Impact Business Outcomes — You'll be able to recalibrate your tech department, and optimise it to produce business value that impacts the right metrics.

2. Sharper CTO — Sharpen Your CTO Skills — You'll sharpen up your decision-making abilities, leadership skills, deepen your collaboration with other executives, improve processes in your department, and optimise it for scaling up.

More details → itzysabo.com

I'm a product and engineering executive leader and manager, having alternated between Product and Engineering for much of my career.

As a business oriented software CTO and executive leader, I have experience across a broad range of industries (cyber, fintech, gaming, productivity), business models (B2B, B2C, B2B2C SaaS) and company growth stages.

I help CEOs, CTOs, Engineering VPs, Engineering Managers and teams deliver more business value in less time, by working with them to identify and solve systemic problems that are holding them back, and to align engineering with the company's business goals.

I have built engineering organisations from scratch, managed departments up to 120 people in size, and learnt how to execute hypergrowth, mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs, as well as reorganisations and downsizing.

I have also successfully prepared organisations for audits, certification and licensing in regulated industries.

I am highly analytical, organised and systematic. 

My superpowers include:
- Sharpened problem-solving instincts.
- Leading and managing teams remotely.
- Hiring trustworthy people, then trusting them.
- Proceeding with confidence through labyrinths of uncertainty.
- Communicating effectively with people at all levels of an organisation.
- Seeing the bigger picture, but able to dive into details where necessary.

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