Lezginﾠ Zilanﾠ
Chief Technology Officer at LEZ-IT AB
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolLezgin Zilan is a results-driven CTO based in Stockholm with 8+ years of senior leadership and two decades of hands-on infrastructure and security experience. He blends deep technical expertise—from Linux, networking and cloud-native architectures to AI/agentic workflows—with strong business acumen, having driven a bank through application-to-license work and chaired technical strategy at high-growth companies. At Qred he scaled engineering velocity 2x, introduced agentic coding and AI tools that now constitute 50% of monthly code and boosted AI adoption from 10% to 87% monthly usage. He’s equally comfortable in the boardroom and the datacenter, owning first-line security and DORA/EBA ICT gap closures while leading a 60-engineer department. A pragmatic innovator, he has a long history of incident response, penetration testing and server-side hardening from his consulting firm LEZ-IT and holds military-grade encryption handling experience. Known for turning complex compliance and legacy platforms into faster, more reliable releases, he combines curiosity with measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
SANS 504 Incident handling CertificateKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyCisco CCNA 1-4 and CCNP 1 - 2 (advanced BGP, routing and firewalling)High School Diploma, IT, High School Diploma, IT at fyrisskolan
Github Skills (179)
custom-component10
instagram10
python10
to-do10
automation10
docker-container10
home-assistant10
javascript10
mqtt10
linux10
water10
languagetool10
toggl10
time-tracking10
geolocation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dwtechnologies/zendesk-translation-via-aws-eventbridge-apigateway-webhook
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
lerra/lezg.in
Jul 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 comment, 2 issues in 2 years 8 months
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