Mladen Bajic

Built and now lead Mozilla's Ads organization of 20+ engineers, driving over 10% of company revenue and delivering privacy-preserving ad technologies including DAP, ML and AI; led acquisition of privacy startup Anonym.

Led teams that built consumer and advertiser-facing products contributing to over $4B annual ad revenue, overhauled video strategy, and scaled engineering org from 7 to 60+ engineers across mobile, frontend, and backend.

Drove HQ through growth toward IPO, coached management, transformed clients to product-oriented agile teams, reduced build times from hours to minutes and cut app latency by over 50%, and migrated a Rails monolith to Go microservices saving ~$300K/month.

Led a 12-person team building Java Spring backend microservices for a P2P payments network processing 100M+ transactions and $25B+ per quarter; enabled clients on TDD, CI/CD and product-centric delivery.

Led mobile engineering and delivery of Mercedes Me connected car platform to production in 5 months and built curated video streaming and shopping apps for major clients, achieving rapid go-to-market and business impact.

Lead engineer building native iOS applications in Objective-C, collaborated on product roadmaps with stakeholders and designers, and authored company coding standards to improve development quality.

Led full-stack development of Windows desktop and ASP back-end applications, designed a licensing/activation system to reduce piracy and a cross-promotion component that boosted product adoption and sales.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Software Engineering from 2009 to 2012 focusing on software engineering principles and practical development skills.