Services
$240 / month
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Free intro call
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Ongoing calls + chat
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No lock-in
Month to month, no contract.
About
I have over 20 years of engineering experience, including 10+ years in engineering leadership across teams of up to 30+ people and multiple layers of leadership. I’ve worked in mid-sized companies through rapid growth, reorgs and scaling challenges, building and maintaining high-load SaaS and B2C products.
Over the last 15 years, I’ve coached dozens of engineers and engineering leaders towards higher-impact roles, better-paid opportunities and more sustainable growth.
I can help you with:
- Stepping into Engineering Management: building confidence as a newly promoted EM, setting expectations, running 1:1s, giving feedback, and avoiding common early mistakes.
- Growing beyond Senior Engineer: choosing between Staff, Tech Lead, EM or other paths, and building an actionable roadmap towards your next level.
- AI enablement for engineering organisations: finding practical AI adoption opportunities, improving engineering workflows, and avoiding shallow “AI theatre”.
- Scaling teams and org structures: designing team boundaries, leadership layers, ownership models, career progression frameworks, and engineering rituals that work as the organisation grows.
- Navigating reorgs and change: making sense of ambiguity, communicating clearly, and keeping teams effective during transition.
My mentoring style is practical and outcome-oriented: we’ll turn ambiguous career or leadership challenges into clear decisions, concrete next steps and repeatable habits.
Feel free to reach out if you’re looking for support with engineering leadership, career growth, AI enablement or scaling an engineering organisation.
What mentees say
5 out of 5 stars
Antonello
Standard Plan • 1 month
Get to know Anton
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VideoAnton Kazakov (Canonical): Healthy Performance & Career Management for Engineers
Performance management is as important a topic as it is notorious and almost universally considered "corporate bureaucracy" by engineers. Many …
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LinkMeasuring Technical Debt Effectively by Anton Kazakov
This Talk discusses the measurement and interpretation of tech lead, focusing on tech debt. Tech debt is a tool to …
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What happens when you start
You tell Anton your goals. They see exactly what you want to work on before session one.
You meet within days. Anton reviews your application and books your first session, usually within a day or two.
You leave with a plan. Concrete next steps and a weekly rhythm from your very first week.
