Aleksandar Tomic

Technology and Engineering Executive with 25+ years of experience building engineering organisations, shaping technology strategy, translating business goals into technology roadmaps, and delivering scalable products and platforms. Deep technical expertise in architecture, IoT, cloud and platform engineering, combined with executive experience across technology, product, people, operations, and business strategy.

Core Expertise:
• Aligning business strategy with engineering execution, scaling distributed teams, modernising platforms, and building operationally mature engineering organisations focused on reliability, delivery excellence, scalability, and customer impact.
• Translating business and stakeholder needs into product and technology roadmaps, solution architectures, and pragmatic execution plans across IoT, big data, cloud-native platforms, migrations, and distributed systems.
• Leading cross-functional organisations spanning engineering, platform, data, security, and product, while partnering closely with executive leadership/investors on strategic planning, budgeting, organisational growth, and long-term technology direction.
• Building and developing engineering organisations, including organisational design, hiring and mentoring engineering leaders, establishing engineering practices, improving delivery, and creating a culture of technical ownership and accountability.
• Leading expert teams delivering high-quality, well-architected software solutions for global enterprises across telecommunications (Swisscom, America Movil), technology (Huawei, Nokia, NetApp, Dropbox), smart retail (Mars), defence (US Navy), and financial services.
• As Chief R&D Officer, created and led the R&D organisation, owned company's technology strategy and long-term roadmaps, and contributed to executive-level planning, budgeting, P&L, organisational growth, and cross-departmental operations.

As a senior technology leader, I combine deep technical credibility with business and organisational leadership. I enjoy working where technology is a strategic differentiator and where the CTO needs to connect product, engineering, architecture, people, and business outcomes, particularly in fast-scaling companies navigating the transition from founder-led or informal technology practices to a mature, scalable organisation.