Lavrenti DeLavrenti

About

Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Led quarterly roadmap planning tied to business objectives and ROI, translating product goals into milestones and tickets
• Drove roadmap changes by pushing customer validation (focus groups) and clarifying trade-offs/resource allocation
• Scaled org by building a parallel cloud team to avoid slowing legacy delivery; delivered $9M ARR from cloud transformation
• Board-level influence: presented and secured investment for a 100% cloud strategy
• Led major architecture modernization: Python monolith on EC2 to serverless, event-driven microservices with eventual consistency
• Change management with resistant stakeholders using feature flags and deploy-vs-release to prove value incrementally
• Managed distributed teams across Mexico/India/US using pods, leads, and overlap hours to improve accountability
• Built a non-blaming culture with clear KPIs/quality standards; reduced regression bug rate

Reference Highlights

• team-first leadership
• go-to person for problem statements
• strong critical thinking
• finds and leverages team strengths
• effective at aligning strategy with execution
• maintains positive team culture
• drives architectural transformation
• establishes strong engineering quality practices
• handles high-pressure situations extremely well
• commanding support and guidance to team
• rapid crisis resolution (restored system within hours)
• drives innovation and technical differentiation
• reduces technical debt
• strong partnership with product management
• Execution-oriented
• Collaborative
• Strategic
• Hard working
• Reliable delivery (always got the job done)
• Led the largest product release in company history
• Worked effectively with all facets of the business and customers
• Scaled engineering from a few people to 15+ across 3 time zones/geographies
• Managed rapid expansion well
• Handled high-pressure/high-growth periods exceptionally (10/10)
• Open to direct feedback
• Adaptable to get results
• Drove rapid innovation
• Built the most successful engineering organization in company history
• Led successful cloud-based online booking product
• Passionate about technology
• Challenges team to improve and think critically
• Supportive leader
• Hands-on leadership style
• Brings innovative ideas
• Forward-thinking
• Builds strong team culture (well-liked by developers)
• Calm under pressure
• Provides time and support during critical incidents
• Enthusiastic and motivating
• Natural leader
• Exceptional engineering leader (best the reference has worked with)
• Inspires and motivates teams
• Develops engineers across levels
• Strong at connecting work to the business “why”
• Strong execution against product roadmap
• Delivers impactful features/products
• Drove major business impact (online booking platform doubled ARR via booking fees)
• Successfully led on-prem to cloud transformation
• Improved delivery cadence via agile/continuous delivery
• Introduced process change effectively and incrementally
• Improved team motivation and shipping speed
• Proactive communicator under pressure
• Raises blockers early and brings solutions
• Strategic partner to Product/roadmap discussions
• Proactive about technical future-proofing
• Empowers team with agency to innovate and experiment
• direct and open communication style
• listens to operational issues
• solution-oriented in addressing issues efficiently
• hands-on support during high-pressure situations
• strong, detailed communicator under pressure
• helps teams execute and deliver projects