---
title: "If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow"
description: "Team design, leadership and mission first. What changed after building DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams across time zones. Keynote by Marian Kamenistak."
url: "https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/"
lang: "en"
image: "https://www.marian.coach/images/marian-kamenistak-og-image.jpg"
---

Marian Kamenistak · Speaker

# If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow, I'd Skip the Org Chart

Team design, leadership and mission first. What changed after building DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams across time zones.

For: CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors, founders past their first three teamsFormat: 45-60 min keynote

[Book this talk →](mailto:marian@marian.coach?subject=Speaking%20request%3A%20If%20I%20Built%20Another%20Engineering%20Org%20Tomorrow%2C%20I'd%20Skip%20the%20Org%20Chart)

![Marian Kamenistak in a leadership workshop, in front of a slide titled "Top 3 dangers — Why we haven't delivered the roadmap this quarter."](https://www.marian.coach/_astro/talk-01.BK9BNN9P_Z1QWIOb.webp)

## How do you design an engineering organization that scales?

Twelve engineers and the company ships. At forty the same company feels slow, and the first move is usually a new org chart. I have built DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams, started new ones inside companies that already had their habits, and taken Mews engineering from eight teams to eighty through Series C. The chart was rarely the thing that fixed it.

We go through what I would do differently now: team design before boxes, a mission each team can say out loud without reading it, and the leadership work that survives a reorg. You leave with the 30-60-90 day guide to leading a new dev team, written for the first three months of a team that did not exist before.

## Why this talk, not a generic version of it

The technology changed. The fundamentals did not. Most org-design talks come from someone who drew one chart, once, at one company. This one covers DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams, new teams started inside established companies, and one organization spread across locations and time zones, which is where most clean structures quietly stop working.

Built for CTOs and VPs who already ran the reorg and got three good months out of it. The close is the 30-60-90 day guide to leading a new dev team, so the room leaves with the first ninety days written down instead of a diagram to redraw.

What the room walks out with:

[Get the 30-60-90 day guide →](https://www.marian.coach/blog/guide-to-leading-your-new-dev-team/)

## Quick answers

Who is "If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow, I'd Skip the Org Chart" for?

CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors, founders past their first three teams

What format is it delivered in?

45-60 min keynote

## More talks

-   [AI Engineering Manager in 2027: How to Lead 20+ People With No Burnout](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/ai-engineering-manager/)
-   [Mindset Change: From Employees to AI People Delivering Value.](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/portfolio-of-skills/)
-   [Human Performance in the AI Era](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/human-performance-ai-era/)
-   [5 Levels of AI Adoption: The KPIs You Should Be Measuring](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/5-levels-of-ai-adoption/)
-   [12 Steps to Boost Your Salary in 2027](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/12-steps-to-higher-salary/)
-   [Learn or Die: 11 Steps to Create a Strong Learning & Growth Culture](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/learn-or-die-growth-culture/)
-   [Inspiration: From Developer to Principal Architect in Silicon Valley to Unicorn Builder](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/developer-to-unicorn-builder/)
-   [90-Day Playbook for Building a High-Performing AI Team](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/90-day-ai-team-playbook/)
-   [Boosting Your Teams' Productivity? Why DORA Will Not Save Your A\*\*](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/dora-wont-save-you/)
-   [The Tech Lead Who Never Let Go of the Keyboard](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/tech-lead-never-let-go-keyboard/)
-   [Is Your Coach Worth the Money?](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/is-your-coach-worth-it/)
-   [Most 1:1s Are Just Surviving. Let's Change That.](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/fix-your-1-1s/)

[← Back to all talks](https://www.marian.coach/speaker/)

## Structured data

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ProfessionalService","name":"Marian Kamenistak | Engineering Leadership Mentoring","url":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/","image":"https://www.marian.coach/images/marian-kamenistak-og-image.jpg","description":"Team design, leadership and mission first. What changed after building DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams across time zones. Keynote by Marian Kamenistak.","serviceType":["Engineering leadership mentoring","Engineering manager coaching","CTO coaching","Fractional CTO","Leadership development for software engineers"],"hasOfferCatalog":{"@type":"OfferCatalog","name":"Engineering leadership mentoring and advisory","itemListElement":[{"@type":"Offer","itemOffered":{"@type":"Service","name":"1:1 engineering leadership mentoring","description":"One-to-one mentoring for engineering leaders from Staff Engineer to CTO. 60-minute sessions, weekly or bi-weekly.","url":"https://www.marian.coach/pricing/"}},{"@type":"Offer","itemOffered":{"@type":"Service","name":"Engineering manager coaching","description":"Coaching for first-time and experienced engineering managers: delegation, performance, hiring, team scaling.","url":"https://www.marian.coach/engineering-manager-mentor/"}},{"@type":"Offer","itemOffered":{"@type":"Service","name":"CTO and VP Engineering mentoring","description":"Mentoring for CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Heads of Engineering running 30-200 person organisations.","url":"https://www.marian.coach/cto-mentor/"}},{"@type":"Offer","itemOffered":{"@type":"Service","name":"Mentor in Residence","description":"A dedicated onsite mentor for your engineering organisation, booked by the quarter.","url":"https://www.marian.coach/mentor-in-residence/"}},{"@type":"Offer","itemOffered":{"@type":"Service","name":"Fractional CTO","description":"Part-time CTO engagements for companies without a full-time technology leader.","url":"https://www.marian.coach/fractional-cto/"}}]},"telephone":"+420 736 519 879","email":"marian@marian.coach","sameAs":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariankamenistak/","https://www.youtube.com/@engineeringleaders","https://github.com/marian-kamenistak","https://www.engineeringleaders.io/","https://www.elc-conference.io/","https://www.marianslist.com/","https://www.mentoringhub.io/"],"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"Varšavská 715/36, Vinohrady","addressLocality":"Praha 2","postalCode":"12000","addressCountry":"CZ"},"geo":{"@type":"GeoCoordinates","latitude":50.0734418,"longitude":14.4385757},"openingHoursSpecification":[{"@type":"OpeningHoursSpecification","dayOfWeek":["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday"],"opens":"09:00","closes":"17:00"}],"priceRange":"329–395 EUR","areaServed":[{"@type":"Place","name":"Europe"},{"@type":"Country","name":"Czechia"},{"@type":"Country","name":"Slovakia"},{"@type":"Country","name":"Poland"},{"@type":"Place","name":"North America"}]}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://www.marian.coach/#person","name":"Marian Kamenistak","url":"https://www.marian.coach/","image":"https://www.marian.coach/images/marian-kamenistak-og-image.jpg","jobTitle":["Engineering Leadership Mentor","Fractional CTO & Chief AI Officer","Founder, Engineering Leaders Community","Engineering Manager Coach","CTO Coach","Keynote Speaker"],"hasOccupation":[{"@type":"Occupation","name":"Engineering Leadership Mentor"},{"@type":"Occupation","name":"Fractional CTO & Chief AI Officer"}],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Engineering Leaders Community","url":"https://www.engineeringleaders.io/"},"alumniOf":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Mews"},{"@type":"Organization","name":"Databricks"}],"knowsLanguage":["English","Czech","Slovak"],"knowsAbout":["Engineering leadership","Engineering management","Scaling engineering teams","CTO mentoring","Engineering org design","VP of Engineering role","Engineering director role","CTPO role","Team lead development","Staff engineer career path","Fractional CTO engagements","AI-assisted engineering leadership","Conference keynotes on engineering leadership","Panel moderation","Podcast guest — engineering leadership"],"homeLocation":{"@type":"Place","name":"Prague, Czechia"},"sameAs":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariankamenistak/","https://www.youtube.com/@engineeringleaders","https://github.com/marian-kamenistak","https://www.engineeringleaders.io/","https://www.elc-conference.io/","https://www.marianslist.com/","https://www.mentoringhub.io/","https://www.crunchbase.com/person/marian-kamenistak","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140488098","https://developers.mews.com/author/marian/","https://startupdisrupt.com/speakers/marian-kamenistak/","https://theorg.com/org/engineering-leaders-community/org-chart/marian-kamenistak"]}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","url":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/","name":"If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow","inLanguage":"en","dateModified":"2026-11-12T20:35:55.902Z"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://www.marian.coach/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Speaker","item":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow, I'd Skip the Org Chart","item":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/"}]}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/#talk","name":"If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow, I'd Skip the Org Chart","abstract":"Team design, leadership and mission first. What changed after building DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams across time zones.","description":"Twelve engineers and the company ships. At forty the same company feels slow, and the first move is usually a new org chart. I have built DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams, started new ones inside companies that already had their habits, and taken Mews engineering from eight teams to eighty through Series C. The chart was rarely the thing that fixed it. We go through what I would do differently now: team design before boxes, a mission each team can say out loud without reading it, and the leadership work that survives a reorg. You leave with the 30-60-90 day guide to leading a new dev team, written for the first three months of a team that did not exist before.","url":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/","audience":{"@type":"Audience","audienceType":"CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors, founders past their first three teams"},"creator":{"@id":"https://www.marian.coach/#person"},"inLanguage":"en","image":"https://www.marian.coach/_astro/talk-01.BK9BNN9P_Z8EnA2.jpg","keywords":"AI engineering leadership, keynote speaker, engineering management, Marian Kamenistak","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/#talks"},"workExample":{"@id":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/#keynote"},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.marian.coach/blog/guide-to-leading-your-new-dev-team/"}
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Service","@id":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/#keynote","name":"If I Built Another Engineering Org Tomorrow, I'd Skip the Org Chart: keynote and workshop","serviceType":"Keynote speaking","description":"Team design, leadership and mission first. What changed after building DevOps, SRE, platform and product teams across time zones.","provider":{"@id":"https://www.marian.coach/#person"},"areaServed":"Worldwide","availableLanguage":["en","cs","sk"],"audience":{"@type":"Audience","audienceType":"CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors, founders past their first three teams"},"url":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/if-i-built-another-engineering-org/","image":"https://www.marian.coach/_astro/talk-01.BK9BNN9P_Z8EnA2.jpg","termsOfService":"https://www.marian.coach/speaker/#wishlist"}
```