InterimLeadership
We advise, and where it makes sense, we stay to deliver. An engagement starts with independent consulting (audits, checkups, strategy, a business and technology roadmap) and can continue as interim leadership, where our leader implements the goals together with your organization.
We not just provide consultation; we take responsibility by implementing our advice.
Engagement model
- 01
Consulting / Assessment
Independent expertise for your leadership team. We assess, build the strategy and roadmap, and show how they can be implemented. So you get immediate results and recommendations, regardless of whether we keep working together afterwards.
- Typical assignments
- Internal Audit · Consulting · Strategic/PM/AI Assessment · Process optimization
- Commitment
- Project-based or retainer
- Typical length
- 1-2 months
- 02
Interim leadership
A deployed leader takes the seat in your office, running the roadmap through together with your people. They carry out full change management and take responsibility, but need the necessary decision-making authority to work effectively.
- Typical roles
- Interim CTO/CIO/COO · Head of IT/Engineering · Interim strategic consultant
- Commitment
- Part-time or full-time
- Typical length
- 6–24 months
- 03
Handover
The point of an interim position is that we grow a successor, or find one on the market. Once they are in place, we gradually hand over the missing expertise, the projects, processes and leadership responsibilities to them, to ensure business continuity.
- Succession
- Growing internally during the interim period · Market screening and hiring
- Commitment
- Gradually reduced part-time
- Typical length
- 1–2 months
Use case
How can IT development and operations become plannable, sustainable and scalable, and what is slowing the team down today?
- 01 · 2 months
Business IT efficiency audit
An independent assessment: what is slowing IT down, and how well does it serve business goals?
- Interviews with leadership, the IT team and partner functions (marketing, BI, PM)
- Shadowing planning, strategy and development sessions, meetings and reviews
- Analysis of IT and business KPIs, hypothesis testing with a targeted survey
- Deep-dive codebase, process and business workflow analysis, SDLC review, value-stream mapping
- Report: process maps, automation opportunities, business-IT alignment, team efficiency, risk analysis
- 02 · 3 months
HRM, Ops & DevOps consulting
Rolling out the audit’s key recommendations in three parallel workstreams.
- HRM: a transparent HR process, job descriptions, hiring an SDET, onboarding an external senior dev team, tech interview training
- Ops Fast Lane: consolidated internal workflow automations, Jira training, Kanban introduction, Lean and Six Sigma analysis
- DevOps: introduction of containerized development, SAST, DAST, delivered a CI/CD and automated release design recommendation
- Hands-on code reviews, standardized build system, and AWS artifact storage
- 03 · 23 months
Interim Head of IT
Full leadership responsibility for IT, reporting directly to the CEO and COO.
- Management: business strategy, rolling out SMART OKRs, building objective performance reviews, managing the IT budget, capacity, resources and allocations
- Team building: building recruitment channels, onboarding, mentoring, 1:1s, integrating replacements and new hires (growing from 7 to 25 people)
- Technology upgrade: AWS Cloud, AI-SSDLC, a shift-left mindset, SAST/DAST, OpenAPI, trunk-based CI/CD, DORA metrics, +65% increase in test coverage
- Product development: PRDs, rolling out Scrumban, steering 4 bank integrations, setting up a PM+PO department and mentoring
- Technical leadership: code review, formal QA, architecture design, process optimization, ISO 27001 preparation, central bank (MNB) compliance
Europe’s first fully digital mortgage SaaS platform · Elite-efficiency IT team · Mentored new IT leadership · +3.77Bn HUF revenue
Business and IT aligned
The IT roadmap is built from business goals, measured and reported to leadership quarterly, and also forms the basis of performance reviews.
Cross-functional projects
Marketing, ops, sales and BI goals and tasks are managed in one transparent, prioritized, centralized Scrumban process, led by a newly built PM team.
Elite team efficiency
Containerized development, fully automated CI/CD for a microservice architecture, test coverage up from 2% to 67%, Elite DORA metrics.
Expert team
New devops, architect, senior and junior developers, structured selection through tech interviews and onboarding, bringing AWS know-how in-house from external partner dependencies.
Modern, validated systems
Terraform IaC, AWS Cloud (RDS, SNS, SQS), NoSQL+SQL, OpenAPI, Docker, GitHub Actions, Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x/4.x, SonarQube SAST, DAST, Next.js, Tailwind, AI-SSDLC, DevSecOps, ISO 27001, central bank (MNB) compliance, 100Gbps local networking.
Efficient collaboration
MS 365 / Google IAM SSO, MS 365 office collaboration (OneDrive, Teams, Outlook, Calendar resources), rolling out Jira, Slack and MS Teams, mentoring, enforcing adoption.
Our Interim Leaders
Krisztián Veress
Former Tech Lead in Google Zürich's Engineering Productivity team, then interim deputy CEO and Head of IT at Bankmonitor, where he built Europe's first fully digital mortgage SaaS platform. 6+ years leading teams, 14+ years of software engineering, 6 years of consulting, and an extra two MBAs.