Roland Krocin

I’m a practical technologist, people coach, and avid DevOps advocate. While I enjoy learning new technologies, I have a thirst for people development, improving ways of working, and building a healthy, sustainable and continuously learning organizational culture. I’m highly experienced in running infrastructure and platforms supporting mission critical and highly regulated workloads. I have a proven record of leading organizational project-to-product changes, focused on coaching world-class engineers and engineering leaders, adopting agile ways of working in support of cutting-edge tech, all to achieve exceptional outcomes. Summary, - Over 27 years of progressive technology leadership experience, from running my own startup to multiple executive positions at a Fortune 150 financial services firm - Demonstrated success in driving technical and process transformation at scale (500+ people), coaching technologists, and working across large and complex organizations to deliver meaningful outcomes - Proven track record of developing new leaders (managers, directors) through a disciplined approach to professional and technical development. Employee NPS consistently in the top 10% of the business unit. - Fast learner, with the ability to quickly adapt approaches to business, people, process and technology as needed - Experienced leader of multiple, geographically dispersed technology product teams of over 100 engineers and several technical managers, with a combined annual run rate exceeding $75mm - Proven track record of technical product management of cloud native platforms for mission critical and highly regulated workloads, while managing multiple multi-million dollar vendor partnerships - Competent across much of the modern technology stack, with the ability to provide technical product direction for cloud platforms, core infrastructure, Platform/Infrastructure-as-a-Service, non-relational data and application messaging products