About me

Ivan Kocijan

I’m always sad to hear people talking how managers are bad and how they do nothing just get paid. My opinion, this is because there are too many managers who don’t get a proper support and mentorship. I’m hoping to change that and help anyone who wants to become a better leader. 

I’ve started my career in the IT industry more than 15 years ago. In the last 12+ years I’ve been in various leadership positions. 

My experience consists of leading various roles: Engineers, HR roles and leading people who lead other people. 

Over the course of my career, I have built and supported teams ranging from small groups of 4-5 members to whole engineering departments.

In the last few years I’ve been responsible for an engineering department consisting of 100+ engineers.

If you want to become a better leader or you need help building a team, let’s get in touch and talk about how I can help you.

My experience

Head of Software Engineering @ Porsche Digital Croatia
2021-now

Responsible for Software Engineering and deep tech department in Croatia. Working on strategy, career development and hiring. The company started as a team with a few engineers and grew to 100+ engineers in 3 years. 

Team lead @ Infinum
2016-2021

Responsible for a team of 30 people. Alongside other team leads I I was working on technical processes, hiring, people satisfaction and career development.

Team Lead @ TVZ Mc2
2013-2016

I co-founded the biggest Croatian student competition. For the first few years I was a team lead responsible for various roles included in the organisation. From marketing and engineers to people who helped us organise events. 

This experience helped me understand how to prepare people to take over your role and I’m glad I did that. This student competition is now the biggest one in Croatia.

Android engineer @ Infinum
2013-2021

I’ve worked on multiple projects in various industries like finance, healthcare, retail and others. Gained extensive experience in test driven development, CI/CDs, SOLID principles, MVP, MVVM and dependency injection. 

I’ve also learned how to be a good tech and what it means to be someones mentor.