Hi, I'm Milos, technical leader for product teams.
I've worked as an engineer, tech lead, co-CTO and founder over the past 15 years. Now my focus is on helping early-stage teams with architecture, hiring and technical direction.
Novi Sad, Serbia
EU & US time zones
What I offer
Fractional CTO / Technical Leadership
Ongoing, part-time. Architecture decisions, technical strategy, and hiring support — for teams that need senior technical leadership without a full-time CTO.
Architecture & Technical Assessment
A scoped, time-boxed engagement: audit of the codebase and engineering practices. Written report — findings and improvements, prioritized, ready for your team to act on.
Hands-on Senior Engineering
When you're behind schedule and need hands-on help, not just advice: code review, pairing, shipping features, and CI/CD.
Who I usually work with
Early-stage founders
The product vision is set, but there's no CTO yet. I bring the technical foundation, first hires and system design to help avoid costly early mistakes.
Growing product teams
The product works, but velocity is slowing and stability is starting to slip. I bring process, mentorship and architectural clarity without a full-time VP Eng hire.
Industrial & IoT
The product is physical and needs a digital layer — IoT, cloud, or a SaaS layer around the hardware. I have a mechatronics background, so the industry's challenges are already familiar.
Background
I've worked across small teams and large ones, early-stage startups and mature companies — including environments where software has to work in step with physical machines. That range is what I bring to fractional CTO work: enough breadth to know which problems actually matter at your stage, and enough depth to build the thing myself when that's what's needed.
- Technical consultant
Independent technical consultant — architecture reviews, technical assessments, system design, hiring and process guidance for teams without an in-house CTO
- Co-CTO
Co-CTO at an outsourcing company — business strategy, hiring and technical oversight across client engineering teams
- Founder, Guzva
Founder of guzva.rs, an AI-driven event discovery platform — architecture, build and the team, from concept to live product
- Tech lead
Tech lead for teams of 3 to 12 engineers — system design, mentoring, technical decision-making, and the bridge between product and engineering
- Software engineer
12+ years as a software engineer across fintech, medtech, manufacturing and cloud platforms — different domains, project types and stages of a product's life
- Mechatronics background
MSc Mechatronics — I understand how software and hardware work together
How I work
Straightforward contracting
A fixed monthly fee, agreed in advance, with the scope written down. Invoiced monthly — cancel anytime, no notice required.
How we'd work together
We agree hours each week when I'm reachable for calls or live discussion. The rest happens async — code review, architecture questions and decisions in Slack, GitHub and Jira, or whatever your team already uses.
Where and when
Remote, working across EU and US time zones. Engagements are typically one to three days a week and change as the work does.