Gábor Mádi

Deputy CEO, COO at ShiwaForce.com Inc.

Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

About

I am a strategic Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer (COO) with a deep technology and product foundation, passionate about scaling organizations and driving operational excellence. My leadership unifies business strategy, product management, and engineering operations, ensuring robust organizational workflows, strict financial governance, and high-impact project delivery. My goal is to build scalable structures and high-performing teams that solve real customer problems and provide a distinct competitive advantage.

Experience

  • Shiwaforce (11 yrs 10 mos)
    • Deputy CEO, COO
      Jul 2026 - Present · 1 mo

      As Deputy CEO and COO, I direct the company’s day-to-day business and development operations, ensuring alignment with corporate strategic objectives while fostering short- and long-term organizational efficiency and market competitiveness.

    • CIO | Leading Product, Engineering & DevOps Teams
      Jan 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos

      ■ Strategic Unit Leadership: Directed the DevOps and Engineering Business Unit, maintaining full delivery accountability for an annual revenue exceeding HUF 1 billion (approx. €2.6 million). ■ Strategic Partnership Management: Developed and managed strategic partnerships with key global technology vendors, including AWS, GCP, Gitlab, Cloudflare, and Atlassian. ■ Product Development & Management: Held comprehensive oversight of the company's internal Product Development efforts, including defining product strategy, market research, and leading product marketing activities. ■ Engineering Oversight: Managed the entire Engineering department, overseeing large-scale enterprise development projects and leading the team of associated Product Owners. ■ Team Building & Growth: Built and led a high-performing, cross-functional technical, product, engineering and DevOps teams of 60+ specialists. ■ IT Operations & Compliance: Managed and ensured the stability of the company's entire IT infrastructure and systems. Maintained continuous compliance with the Integrated Management System (ISO 9001, ISO 27001). ■ Strategic & External Representation: Actively participated in corporate strategy definition and represented the company at professional conferences and key client executive meetings. Regularly featured contributor on the Epic Stories podcast series and Millásreggeli radio broadcasts.

    • CIO | DevOps Natives & Atlassian
      Oct 2020 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      ■ Business Unit Leadership: Directed the Atlassian and DevOps business unit, holding full delivery accountability for an annual revenue exceeding HUF 500 million (approx. €1.3 million). ■ Team Building & Management: Built and led a high-performing professional team of 16+ specialists, driving technical excellence and service delivery. ■ Strategic & Cross-Functional Involvement: Actively participated in corporate strategy development, product development, sales, and marketing activities, ensuring IT alignment with business goals. ■ IT Operations Oversight: Managed and ensured the stability of the company’s entire IT infrastructure and systems (IT Operations). ■ Compliance & Quality: Implemented and maintained the Integrated Management System (IMS), achieving and operating under ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 27001 (Information Security) certifications. ■ External Representation: Represented the company as a subject matter expert at professional forums, conferences, and client executive meetings.

  • Product Owner / Project Manager at Active Vision Ltd.
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2021 · 7 yrs

    Managing various parallel web- and mobile development projects for SME and MNC clients: web portals, microsites, mobile applications.

  • Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Inepex
    Aug 2011 - Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    ■ Executive Leadership: Oversaw daily operations and project management for the company, defining internal processes and leading a multidisciplinary team of up to 7 people. ■ System Architecture: Designed and developed critical internal infrastructure (CRM, Warehouse, Worklog systems) utilizing PHP and MySQL. ■ Product Management: Coordinated the end-to-end delivery of Java web applications and Android mobile solutions, including UX/UI design and technical documentation. ■ Marketing Strategy: Directed corporate branding, pricing models, and digital marketing activities (SEO/SEM, Social Media), alongside competitor analysis. ■ Stakeholder Management: Managed strategic partnerships, key client accounts, and media relations to drive business growth.

  • Blogger at itarena
    Nov 2010 - Aug 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Writing more than 300 posts in web, it, mobile, dvb topics. 3 articles were published in HVG magazines.

  • Webdesigner, Webdeveloper (self-employed) at gsonline WebNDesign
    Feb 2007 - Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Site building and web design. Key references: AIESEC Hungary, BME VIKING Electrical Engineering and IT Research & Development Zrt., Electrical Engineering Students’ Hungarian Association.