Summary
Sergiu Petean is a Field CTO EMEA at Atlassian and a seasoned technology leader with a 15-year track record building and scaling engineering teams across financial services, insurance, cloud infrastructure and startups. He blends hands-on platform engineering and generative AI strategy with enterprise-grade compliance expertise, having led cloud transformations, M&A integrations and the creation of in-house PaaS and AI platforms at Allianz Direct. Based in Munich, he advises European resilience and cloud-native communities (CNCF, European Resilience Summit) and brings a rare combination of regulatory fluency (DORA, EU AI Act) and pragmatic product delivery. A founder at heart, Sergiu has launched startups and consultancy ventures that bridge data, fintech markets and platform operations, and he consistently focuses on turning complex regulatory and technical constraints into scalable, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Insurance, Master's degree, Insurance at Babes-Bolyai University
English, Romanian, Spanish, German