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Help software engineers become strategic leaders through personalized coaching and actionable strategies.

Created Tech Lead Mastery, a 6-month interactive program helping engineers master leadership skills and career advancement.

Host workshops and events that teach engineers how to build high-performing teams and influence stakeholders.

Provide tailored resources to simplify leadership and career growth for mid- and senior-level engineers.

Founder of Tech Lead Mastery | Leadership Coaching for Engineers

Atradius

When Atradius embarked on the transformative journey of bringing IT development in-house, I was entrusted with the task. Spearheading the inaugural in-house team in the Channels division was both a challenge and an honor. From hiring to setting up processes and ensuring efficient deliverables, I've fostered a culture of excellence. Today, with a mix of talent from Amsterdam to Madrid and beyond, I'm cultivating the future tech leaders of the industry. Building teams, bridging geographical gaps, and aligning with long-term goals — that's a day in my life at Atradius.

Engineering Manager

VodafoneZiggo

Reforming a dynamic team at Vodafone, I took on the mission to migrate the extensive Vodafone Enterprise Portal. From AngularJS to React and introducing NestJS middleware, our tech overhaul was comprehensive. As a Scrum Master, I introduced agile methodologies, ensuring that team dynamics were at their peak and individual performances shined. Weekly conversations with Agile Coaches and regular strategic meetings ensured we stayed ahead of challenges.

Scrum Master & Frontend Developer

Veen Bosch & Keuning Uitgevers Groep B.V.

Stepping into the vast world of the largest publisher in the Netherlands, I had my eyes set on innovation. Leading the rewrite of bookchoice.com and bruna.nl wasn't just about code; it was about crafting user experiences. Beyond projects, I had the privilege to step into the shoes of my mentor, inheriting the wisdom and challenges of being an Engineering Manager. From introducing a Scrum scoring system to spearheading remote work strategies during the COVID era, I was at the forefront of change.

Engineering Manager & Lead Frontend Developer

Harlem Next B.V.

I wore two hats: A Lead Front-end Developer and a Mentor. Crafting landing pages and dashboards with Vue.js was one part of the job; mentoring three budding engineers was where my passion truly shone. Together, we navigated the worlds of technology and soft skills, ensuring they were equipped for the challenges of tomorrow.

Lead Frontend Developer & Mentor

Joining KPN was a lesson in the power of Scrum done right. While developing in-house products, I had the opportunity to introduce innovative concepts like Feature Flag, ES6, and the BEM naming convention. It wasn't just about code; it was about improving processes and enhancing user experiences.

AngularJS Front-end Developer

comScore, Inc.

My journey abroad began with comScore in Amsterdam—a milestone that significantly amplified my professional growth. Here, I was entrusted with maintaining four intricate analytics tools, akin to giants like Google Analytics. Working with AngularJS, I delved into the complexities of constructing expansive applications that demanded efficiency and performance. Though the acquisition by Adobe marked an unforeseen chapter's end, the learning and experiences at comScore solidified my foundation in front-end technologies and large-scale application development.

JavaScript Developer

Westline Webworks Ltd

At Westline, innovation met opportunity. Entrusted with a pioneering video-based project, I dived deep into the world of HTML5 video and AngularJS. Crafting a robust app tailored for mobile and tablet users was both challenging and rewarding. Navigating through the relatively new territories of AngularJS and HTML5 video was a testament to my passion for exploring the uncharted.

Front-end developer

BIG FISH Internet Technology Ltd

Joining BIG FISH, I was promised expansive opportunities to work with JavaScript. Although we embarked on an exciting project to redesign Hungary's largest online bookstore, the nature of the role didn't align with the vision I had. Our paths diverged as I became more determined to find a role that genuinely resonated with my expertise and aspirations.

arukereso.hu

My foray into the professional IT realm began at árukereső.hu. With the burgeoning mobile era, I championed the redesign of the platform's mobile interface, working hands-on with technologies like PHP Smarty, jQuery, Less CSS, and HTML5. It was an enlightening phase, witnessing the onset of revolutionary JavaScript frameworks. However, when my aspirations leaned more towards JavaScript, I realized it was time for a new chapter.

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People & Process Driven Freelance Engineering Manager | Cultivating High-Performing Dev Teams Across Borders

I’m Gábor, and I help mid- and senior-level software engineers to become impactful tech leaders.

I started my career as a web developer and, over the years, worked my way up to lead developer and then engineering manager. Along the way, I faced the same challenges many engineers encounter when stepping into leadership, such as balancing technical responsibilities with managing people, learning how to influence without authority, and making decisions that impact the bigger picture.

What made the difference for me was a mentor who helped me navigate these shifts. That experience saved me years of trial and error, and it’s why I’m so passionate about helping others who are ready to take their next big career step.

Through 1-on-1 coaching, I work with software engineers to:

👉 Prepare for leadership roles by building the right skills and mindset.
👉 Simplify the shift from coding to team leadership with actionable guidance.
👉 Overcome common hurdles like managing performance, communication, and trust.

I’ve been where you are, and I know how hard it can be to move forward when leadership feels exciting, but overwhelming. My coaching isn’t about theory—it’s about clear steps that help you grow into the leader your team needs.

If you’re a software engineer looking to take your career to the next level, let’s connect.

You will find lots of useful and free resources on my website at gabortill.com

Gábor Till

Terramate

I joined Terramate to bring my experience of scaling teams at global unicorns to the early stages of a startup.

VP of Engineering

Getir

- Responsible for 1 tribe, 5 managers, 6 squads, 40 headcount, in 8 countries
- Mentored multiple senior ICs through the Manager path transition
- Responsible for all user-facing experiences common to all of our 9 businesses
- Owned strategic SaaS vendor relationships, driving significant cost improvements through contract right-sizing
- Technical due diligence for M&A
- Delivered significant performance and cost benefits to core services via scale-appropriate system redesigns 
- Director of Engineering for the German HQ

Leading with empathy through consolidation and the drive for operational efficiency.

Director of Engineering

- Responsible for 2 squads, 1 EM, 1 Lead, 16 headcount
- Managing remote-first teams across 7 countries
- Responsible for core services supporting over 100M registered users

Joined in a high growth phase with the objective of spinning up new teams to accelerate business.

Senior Engineering Manager

lengoo

Grew from 8 to 24 engineers in 4 teams led by EMs.

Got new Machine Translation models deployed to customers in minutes instead of days.

Partnering with Sales, we launched an API-first, fully digital experience for digital native customers that eliminated the need for 90% of human intervention. It helped us gain market share in the Nordics at a lower cost of labor.

Head Of Engineering

Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, and Asia

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Contentful

Managing the European team, while remaining an active Solutions Architect for key accounts.

Coordinated the intake of customer insights into the Product development process.

Recruited the initial San Francisco Solution Architecture team

Solutions Architect Manager

Providing technical leadership, guidance and organisational coaching to the software teams of 30+ customers, from small startups to large Fortune 500 enterprises across Europe, US and Canada.

Pre-sales technical enablement leading to faster closing times.

Post-sales technical enablement leading to lower churn and higher deal expansion rates.

Supported 30+ enterprise customers including brands like Capital One, Eli Lilly, Bethesda, N26, Porsche Digital, remotely and on-site.

Solutions Architect

HelloFresh (UK & Germany)

Managed up to 15 engineers through Team Leads.

Grew the API, Infrastructure, Payments and Loyalty teams.

Launched Hellofresh in 3 additional countries in less time than expected.
Introduced Infrastructure as Code company-wide, with the ability to completely recover from disasters fully automated.

Introduced a docker-based developer experience which brought the time to first commit of new developers down from a few days to a few hours.

Head of Platform Engineering

Designed and co-developed the Consumer API. It powered the launch of the ios and android apps, bringing the Hellofresh experience to the kitchens of millions more people globally.

Introduced Testing and Architecture practices that brought down the rate of defects and the cycle time of new capabilities.

Founded the Platform teams: API, Infrastructure and Payments.
Developed the hiring process that took Hellofresh from 10 to 100 developers in two years.

Senior Software Engineer

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I was contracted to develop the backend for a corporate intranet application which handled multi-currency expense reporting and workflow automation. I joined a team with Angular frontend engineers and supplied the RESTful API as well as all backend services including web server, database and job scheduling. I once again used the Symfony php/mysql stack to deliver a tested and robust product.

Inpakt

Inpakt was a startup building a social network for people wanting to volunteer with nonprofit organizations, as well as a payments processor for such NPOs.

I was attracted to its socially responsible mission and became one of the first engineers on the team. We delivered MVPs built on symfony/php and mysql in a quick iterative fashion, as the company sought to find its product/market fit.

Our three-strong engineering team demonstrated how velocity can increase when adhering to professional engineering practices such as solid principles and TDD, as a healthy codebase was easy to mold and pivot as the business needed.

Sadly, the national market for donations offered little in the way of business viability. We were unable to penetrate foreign markets and the venture folded after less than a year.

Founding Engineer

SAPO

Contracting on behalf of PrimeIT, I joined teams working on large scale e-commerce and adtech products.

Sapo Voucher was a groupon-like service built on a heavily customized code igniter php+mysql platform, to which I introduced symfony components and increased testing coverage for better productivity and resilience, while keeping performance high.

Sapo Ads is a contextual text advertising service running on highly optimized php and bare-metal mysql instances. I helped deliver better campaign management capabilities.

Both products were available throughout the entire Portuguese-speaking community, meaning we were delivering high scale traffic efficiently to millions of users across Portugal, Brazil, North America and Africa.

Seeking to focus on full time software engineering on my own terms, I was engaged by a client in the automotive industry to develop a multilingual car rental platform. I once again used mysql, php and symfony for the job, deepening my knowledge of the framework while delivering a highly customizable system for stock management, booking system and marketing content management.

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Scaling tech organizations at global unicorns like Hellofresh, Contentful and Getir since 2015. Programmer since 2001. Educator and content creator. Finding success by empowering others.

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