I Build High Performance Technology Organizations
... which build products that sell themselves
"Relentless pursuit of a sustainable competitive advantage"
ABOUT
Leon Kotovich is the CEO at TerraManta, a machine learning platform for forecasting commodity prices
While raising capital, I am also helping several companies as an interim Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Operating Officer.
Less than 10% of CTOs become CEOs.
I became a Chief Operating Officer and later became a Chief Executive Officer after co-founding my own company.
Always remained a CTO.
The best CTOs can operate as a CEO or any other executive at any given time to continuously align technology strategy, budgets, and people - to build software products which sell themselves.
Why You May Need Me
actual quotes from clients
PEOPLE
"The attrition continues to increase"
"Unable to attract and retain star talent"
"Wish I had stronger engineering managers"
"Wish I had stronger product managers (requirements are often incomplete"
PROCESS
"Engineering velocity is decreasing"
"Regression issues continue to increase"
"Spend days to diagnose critical production problems - while customers are disappointed"
"Cannot provide metrics to my CEO"
TECHNOLOGY
"Technical debt looks like national debt"
"Fix 1 problem, create 10 other problems"
"Cannot deploy new features more frequently"
"Automated testing coverage is in the single digits"
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Chief Executive Officer
Launched a machine learning platform for forecasting commodity prices to manage outside capital by trading commodity futures contracts
ePlanSoft
Chief Operating Officer
Scaled a late stage startup
Built SaaS products to help architectural, engineering, and construction companies manage design and assessment processes
Vice President of Engineering
Led a global engineering organization $3.3B annual revenues (2021)
360 engineers
3 countries: US, India, UK
MediaSolv
Chief Technology Officer
Designed and launched marketing-leading SaaS digital evidence and video analytics management products. The company was acquired by Axon.