Sergei, CTO at Pipedrive is a strong supporter of agile software development and has a proven track-record of scaling the work of large engineering teams by applying Scrum development methodology. With domain knowledge in banking, telecommunications, sales and start-ups, Sergei believes that it is crucial to minimize the friction and time between the thought and the implementation, to minimize the amount of work which needs to be done through using the best tools available, and automation. Sergei also thinks it is crucial to let technical and product leadership focus on the right things — technical legacy should never prevent the teams from innovating.

As CTO at Pipedrive Sergei Anikin is responsible for managing Pipedrive development and infrastructure departments. As part of Pipedrive’s executive team Sergei is responsible for top priority, business critical efforts and transforming development organisation into a high performing, top-notch team. In just 5 years, Sergei has grown Pipedrive’s engineering team from 10 to over 200 engineers.

Prior to Pipedrive, Sergei worked at Skype for over 7 years, filling the roles of Billing Architect and Team Lead. Most notable projects that Sergei has an impact on in Skype were Facebook Video calling (using Skype technologies) and Skype for Windows 8 client development. Sergei’s career began at Hansabank where he started as an Internet Bank developer and moved his way up to become the manager of the development team. 

*Ashwini Raman* is a product and technical leader with extensive experience leading teams and building 0-1 products in Ad Tech and SaaS. Currently, she works with a talented team at Facebook London, enabling meaningful connections between people and businesses. Prior to this, Ashwini was on the Ads Delivery team in Menlo Park, California. Ashwini started her career as an engineer and then moved to product. She has held product roles at Salesforce and Yahoo.

In her free time, Ashwini loves to read, go on long art walks and visit the many museums in London with her husband and two kids.

Maria Lasprilla, Head of Core Product at Pipedrive is responsible for driving the vision of the core product and helping build a team of talented product managers who work on building the best sales tool out there. As a product vision and strategy advocate Maria’s tasks include listening to the feedback and problems manifested by Pipedrive’s customers, working closely with research and design on finding the best solutions, preaching and helping people within and outside of the company to understand what it is that Pipedrive’s Product Management does, with the emphasis on the why and the how.

Prior to joining Pipedrive over three years ago Maria worked in product development in for two Fin Tech companies, where she kicked off her product manager career. She loves dogs, and is passionate about learning and helping others learn and develop. Maria has also worked as a teacher and is particularly passionate about getting involved in voluntary work to contribute to solving general world problems. Helping bring in more diversity to the IT industry has been her main voluntary focus in the last 5 years closely with the team at MTÜ Tech Sisters.

Tomas, Engineering Manager and Site Lead, is responsible for setting up Pipedrive’s development centre in Prague, Czech Republic. Tomas has a wide range of experience from different kinds of environments in Software Engineering, including 10 years at Skype both in Prague and Palo Alto, CA, and working as a Digital Nomad at Toptal, where he managed to work from 14 different countries in just 9 months - his favourite experience so far. His most recent experience was as CTO in groceries delivery startup Košík.cz, which was the most intense yet the most valuable training for what’s coming at Pipedrive.

As an Engineering Manager and a Site Lead, Tomáš is responsible for hiring strong Developers who will fit into Pipedrive’s unique culture, as well as improve existing, and deliver new, Pipedrive features. He will work closely with a whole range of internal teams to set up Pipedrive Prague’s identity and theme, ensuring Prague will become a valuable contributor to Pipedrive’s success. As Site Lead, Tomáš is determined to root the Czech branch into the local startup and sales communities and give back insights and experience both him and Pipedrive have learnt over time.

Senior IT professional with 15+ years of experience in leadership roles in the software industry. A recognized leader with strong communication skills and emphasys on agile way of thinking. Led complex and cross-functional teams across time zones. Gained wisdom from startups as well as the corporate world. Motivated and driven mainly by seriously hard tasks and challenging requirements. Able to take responsibility and deliver.