Jānis Dirveiks
Jānis Dirveiks
Transformation Leader
Organisational Coach
Change Manager
Agile Practitioner
Team Trainer

My story

My professional journey started in 2010 when I embarked on a management consulting and assurance (EY) career, quickly jumping from a consultant to a senior consultant and later becoming a manager. Throughout this journey, I worked with 40+ clients in the public and private sectors – helping to evaluate, reengineer, and improve processes.

In 2014, I joined Nordea Bank as a Product Manager for the banking mobile apps. There, for the first time, I discovered Agile ways of working and had a chance to organise the first three cross-functional product teams in the bank working according to the most popular Agile framework in the world – Scrum. Soon after I got involved in the Agile transformation of Nordea which was being merged with another bank – DNB. I had a chance to build Agile teams, and design team practices and organisational structures in a corporate environment. Later I did the same for another sizeable bank – SEB before joining a Series-A startup Fidel API in 2019.

At Fidel API, having an engineering team of only 10 meant that I could create all the ways of working, processes, and teams as per the best practices to ensure sustainable software development. Fidel API scaled to 200 people in 3 years and an R&D team of 100 that I had the pleasure to coach and mentor.

Since 2023, I have been working in tech due diligence, as well as driving organisational design and process improvement projects in different companies. I am also a practising Agile coach in a robotics startup Energy Robotics.

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“Janis expertise and hands-on approach to coaching our cross-functional teams to become better has been vital to expose anti-patterns and tackle those - to strengthen our business development efforts. His expertise and fresh thinking helped to improve team efficiency and introduce strategic product prioritisation practices.”
"Thanks to Jānis, the team was not only able to scale but also deliver with speed, rigor, and cohesiveness - which enabled us to consistently hit our team and company-wide OKRs."
Antonio
António Lopes
Product Manager
"Jānis is one of the best I've worked with when it comes to Agile. I learned most of the things I know from him. He teaches things in a way that is very easy to learn, and always in a good mood."
Gabriel
Gabriel Henrique Lopes Godoi
Front-end developer
“The training led by Jānis very clearly showed the power of Agile methodology. He helped to clear the misconceptions and provided plenty of examples on how to start the journey of Agile transformation”
"By working with Janis you would be guaranteed to get your Agile processes improved at any level of detail. He can pay very close attention to multiple teams and always brings a spirit of helping, taking things to the next level, challenging the status quo, and caring and understanding for the company, products, and people."
Cornel
Cornel Chitanu
Mobile developer
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