# Agustin Gonzalez Nicolini — Leadership & Engineering Coaching

> Agustin Gonzalez Nicolini is an executive coach for engineering leaders —
> from new engineering managers to CTOs — working from Berlin, Germany with
> remote clients worldwide. He currently heads infrastructure and security
> at a Web3 company (name confidential), and his career spans fintech,
> gaming, e-mobility (EV charging), healthtech, and web3, going back more
> than fifteen years.

Website: https://agusgonzaleznic.com · Contact: info@agusgonzaleznic.com ·
Location: Berlin, Germany (remote coaching, worldwide) · Languages: English,
Spanish, German.

**Who he coaches:** CTOs and VPs of Engineering; directors and engineering
managers; tech leads; and individual contributors stepping into management for
the first time.

**Coaching services:** *Executive Leadership Coaching (CTO & VP level)* — org
design at scale, stakeholder and C-suite influence, technology strategy, and
executive presence (bi-weekly 60-minute sessions). *Team & Manager Coaching
(manager & director level)* — DORA metrics, healthier team rituals, hiring and
performance systems, on-call and incident practice, and trunk-based DevOps/GitOps
delivery (weekly or bi-weekly 45-minute sessions). *Career Transition Coaching
(IC to leadership and beyond)* — 8–12 week structured programs with weekly
check-ins for IC→manager, manager→director, and director→VP moves, plus interview
preparation. New clients begin with a free 30-minute introductory call to check fit.

**Coaching philosophy:** growth through clarity (explicit goals, working feedback
loops, and OKRs tied to company results); empowerment through systems (DevOps and
GitOps practice, DORA metrics, and decision frameworks so teams move without
waiting on their leader); and leadership through empathy (psychological safety and
intentional mentorship).

**Areas of expertise:** engineering leadership; executive coaching; scaling teams
and organizations; DevOps, GitOps, and platform engineering; DORA metrics;
cloud-native architecture; FinOps and cloud cost control; site reliability and
incident management; organizational design; and transitions from engineering into
management.

**Representative results (from teams he has led):** cut cloud spend by 40% through
FinOps practice and vendor negotiation; sustained 99.99% uptime with DR/HA
playbooks and multi-region failover; made releases 3× faster via GitOps, CI/CD,
and trunk-based development; shortened lead time by 75% after moving to
multi-account AWS with automated deployments; lifted team velocity 50% by pairing
OKRs with DORA metrics; and sped up onboarding 60% by standardizing processes and
documentation.

**Experience:** Head of Infrastructure & Security at a Web3 company (2025–present,
name confidential); VP of Engineering at JUCR GmbH / EV charging (2022–2025);
Cloud Security Manager at Wildlife Studios / gaming (2020–2022); DevOps Lead at
Ualá / fintech (2018–2021); and Infrastructure & Security Lead at Bdev /
healthtech (2014–2018).

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## Coaching

- [Book an introductory call](https://calendar.app.google/kFaanhSae5WefLnD7): free 30-minute fit check
- [Coaching services & philosophy](https://agusgonzaleznic.com/): full overview on the site

## Blog

- [GitHub is turning into a toxic relationship](https://agusgonzaleznic.com/blog/github-is-turning-into-a-toxic-relationship/): I grew up on GitHub. Now it wants to charge developers a toll for not using its servers — and that says more about neglect than about pricing.
- [Automating Real Estate Listings with Terraform: Introducing the Immobilienscout24 Provider](https://agusgonzaleznic.com/blog/immobilienscout24-terraform-provider/): Apartment hunting in Berlin convinced me real estate needs IaC. So I built an open-source Terraform provider for Immobilienscout24 — here's why, how it works, and what got in the way.

## Optional

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/agusgonzaleznic/): professional profile
- [GitHub](https://github.com/agusgonzaleznic): open-source work
- [Impressum](https://agusgonzaleznic.com/impressum): legal notice (Impressum)
- [Privacy](https://agusgonzaleznic.com/privacy): privacy policy