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Lavrenti DeLavrenti
Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS
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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.
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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
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