George is a hands-on engineering leader with focus on delivering Enterprise cloud services at scale. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies at enterprise scale. Previously, he was a Director of Cloud Platform Engineering, at Citrix Systems, leading the company’s cloud transition. In 2017 he co-founded Tradeline, a SaaS startup that disrupted the way global commodity trading works and was an innovator in enterprise blockchain technologies. He has also worked as a venture partner for venture capital firms in the United Kingdom and Greece and currently is an advisor and fCTO to early-stage startups with a focus on cloud infrastructure products, enterprise SaaS, and developer tools, He also mentors aspiring startup founders as well as being an executive coach. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Kubecon, Hashiconf, LeadDev, DeveloperWeek, and more, focusing on agile leadership, scaling engineering teams, and entrepreneurship.