09/30/2026 updated
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Senior Technical Project Manager | AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI | Data, Cloud & Platform
Nis, Serbia
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Bachelor of Laws, International Law and Legal StudiesAbout me
Senior Technical Project/Program Manager and engineering leader with 10+ years delivering complex Data, Cloud and Engineering Transformation programs. At Lark Health, led engineering programs spanning 50+ engineers and owned a strategic portfolio of 16 initiatives across eight technical teams.
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AI Program Management
Expertise in leading complex AI and Generative AI initiatives involving LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tool calling, agent orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, human in the loop controls, and AI governance across technical and business stakeholders.
Technical Project and Program Management
Over 10 years of experience managing large-scale technical programs spanning data engineering, cloud transformation, platform engineering, and digital transformation, coordinating 50+ engineers across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Data Engineering and Cloud Platform Delivery
Proven track record delivering enterprise data platform transformations using Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, Databricks, Kafka, and Kubernetes, including migrations of 200+ pipelines and 300+ tables with full governance and acceptance management.
Agile Delivery and Governance
Establishment of structured Agile release processes, Jira and Confluence workflows, dependency tracking, program reporting, and governance practices supporting more than 300 annual releases across multiple engineering teams.
Stakeholder and Executive Communication
Strong capability in communicating complex technical risks, dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and program decisions to C-level executives and senior business stakeholders, building trusted relationships across organizational levels.
Risk and Dependency Management
Comprehensive management of risks, dependencies, scope, and change across large engineering portfolios, including creation of risk registers, dependency maps, and executive-level reporting.
Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies
Hands-on program management experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Airflow, CI/CD, and Tableau, driving reliability improvements and a 95% reduction in production incident volume.
Budget and Resource Management
Leadership of cost optimization initiatives, including KMS cost reduction that delivered approximately $400K in annual savings by reducing annualized spend from approximately $900K to $500K.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Direction of multidisciplinary delivery across teams spanning Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, BI, Data Science, Backend, and Mobile, aligning technical workstreams with business objectives.
Expertise in leading complex AI and Generative AI initiatives involving LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tool calling, agent orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, human in the loop controls, and AI governance across technical and business stakeholders.
Technical Project and Program Management
Over 10 years of experience managing large-scale technical programs spanning data engineering, cloud transformation, platform engineering, and digital transformation, coordinating 50+ engineers across multiple concurrent workstreams.
Data Engineering and Cloud Platform Delivery
Proven track record delivering enterprise data platform transformations using Snowflake, Airflow, DBT, Databricks, Kafka, and Kubernetes, including migrations of 200+ pipelines and 300+ tables with full governance and acceptance management.
Agile Delivery and Governance
Establishment of structured Agile release processes, Jira and Confluence workflows, dependency tracking, program reporting, and governance practices supporting more than 300 annual releases across multiple engineering teams.
Stakeholder and Executive Communication
Strong capability in communicating complex technical risks, dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and program decisions to C-level executives and senior business stakeholders, building trusted relationships across organizational levels.
Risk and Dependency Management
Comprehensive management of risks, dependencies, scope, and change across large engineering portfolios, including creation of risk registers, dependency maps, and executive-level reporting.
Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies
Hands-on program management experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, Airflow, CI/CD, and Tableau, driving reliability improvements and a 95% reduction in production incident volume.
Budget and Resource Management
Leadership of cost optimization initiatives, including KMS cost reduction that delivered approximately $400K in annual savings by reducing annualized spend from approximately $900K to $500K.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Direction of multidisciplinary delivery across teams spanning Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, BI, Data Science, Backend, and Mobile, aligning technical workstreams with business objectives.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2009
Languages
EnglishNative speaker
Project history
Owned a strategic portfolio of 16 concurrent engineering initiatives, coordinating scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, resources, delivery milestones, acceptance criteria, and executive reporting across 20 to 30 recurring stakeholders. Led multidisciplinary delivery across approximately eight teams spanning Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, BI, Data Science, Backend, and Mobile. Led AI and data focused delivery involving LLMs, Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, human in the loop controls, and AI governance. Implemented standardized Jira and Confluence workflows and led KMS cost optimization initiatives delivering approximately $400K in annual savings.
Led engineering execution across platform, infrastructure, data, reliability, deployment, and AI enabled initiatives for teams of 50+ engineers. Strengthened delivery planning, prioritization, resource allocation, risk management, and execution governance, achieving a 30% improvement in delivery predictability. Advanced platform reliability through Kubernetes, Kafka, and enhanced monitoring, resulting in a 95% reduction in production incident volume.
Led an enterprise data platform transformation to Snowflake covering 50+ pipelines and 300+ tables. Directed cross functional program planning across approximately eight teams. Coordinated migration of 200+ Airflow pipelines as part of broader data platform modernization. Led the transition from Periscope to Tableau. Launched three major Braze data flows and established program governance, Jira workflows, delivery reporting, and structured Agile practices supporting more than 300 annual releases.