Agron Fazliu

Authentic & Transformational Leadership.

People Enablement & Coaching.

IT Leadership.

Adaptive Mindset Enabler.

Product • Data • Tech • Security.

Resilience in Adversity.

About Me
Hello! I'm Agron.

Chief Information Officer (CIO) | Co-Founder
Product • Data • Tech • Security
Basel, Switzerland.


I firmly believe in the transformative power of collaboration, empowerment, and collective achievement. With 20+ years in the tech space, I've worked in engineering, security, and data before stepping into roles as a co-founder and CIO, consistently valuing strategic collaboration over individual brilliance. My leadership approach interweaves authenticity, adaptability, and innovation that guide my professional endeavors, whether that's crafting a visionary data strategy, fostering a thriving engineering team, or introducing pioneering, data-centric systems. My hands-on experience has honed my expertise in areas like data-driven innovation, infrastructure, and information security. In my current role as CIO, my aim is clear: utilize technology as a tool to synchronize with business goals, shield invaluable data, and introduce cutting-edge solutions that accentuate efficiency, security, and growth. Outside the realm of bits and bytes, my roles as a father, husband, and son deeply influence my worldview. My love for science finds its way into my personal readings. Nothing compares to the joy of sharing knowledge with my daughter. In envisioning a future for her, I see a world interconnected and powered by data, brimming with opportunities for the next generation. Having had the privilege to work for a plethora of international companies, and to study at globally prestigious institutions, I carry a global perspective and a multi-faceted skillset. Moreover, my passion for continuous learning keeps me on-guard. When I'm not engaged at work, I indulge in my interests of travelling, cooking, and physics.

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20 years work experience
International experience
Diverse industries
Customer focused
Adaptive leader
Team enabler
Learning agility
People mentor
Resume
Few work achievements
Various leadership roles

5-10 years ago.
St. Gallen, Switzerland.


1.
"This product turned science from abstract theory into useful metrics!"
Organigrams are démodé. Looking at an organigram, we are mentally programmed to you see hierarchy and power layers. What we might not see is the fact that an organigram is just an instance of a network. Utilising science theory and domain knowledge, I lead the product ideation and software cloud implementation to come up with a viable solution. I developed 10 metrics that rely on Graph Theory algorithms and applied them into the HR domain. They range from Internal Succession Planning (from Facebook’s social dispersion algorithm) to identifying Leadership Peer Communication (from communicability algorithm). This product turned science, from abstract theory, into useful metrics.

2.
"They are happy!"
We provide Talent and Organization Management SaaS to many hundreds of businesses globally, many well-known names from various industries such as clothes, automotive, machinery, precision, financial, etc. Data about people is sensitive data, think of GDPR, especially employee data. Adhering to highest security standards and regulations must be a given. I am at the forefront of these endeavors and in close cooperation with our customers. They are happy.

3.
"Perfect for HR Executives who need to have reliable answers quickly!"
Having a lot of data that is buried under a decade-old legacy system does not make much of useful insights. Finding a way to make sense of this data, stored in EAV model, was not about usual suspects of data cubes, queries, or exports. I pioneered an approach and managed the successful implementation through using Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding, and Named-Entity Recognition, while also utilizing legacy business logic and system configurability. In the end, we have Google-like natural multilanguage search abilities that produce metrics, raw data, and customer-crowdsourced results. In comparison, it renders the usual SQL useless and it makes Business Analytics clumsy, while it provides utilizable metrics on a search of a sentence. Perfect for HR Executives who need to have reliable answers quickly.

Competences & Focus
  • Data-driven Innovation
  • People Mentoring & Coaching
  • IT Leadership
  • Inclusion Enabler
  • IT Infrastructure & Architecture
  • Information Security & Privacy

Education
University of Cambridge
2020-2020 | Cambridge, UK.

Exec. Ed. Business Analytics: Decision-Making Using Data

University College London
2003-2005 | London, UK.

M.Sc. in Data Communication Networks and Distributed Systems


Team Award: NOMINUM Prize 2004

Project: LINX Network Monitoring
American University in Bulgaria
2000-2003 | Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

B.A. in Computer Science

Latest Certifications
EU General Data Protection Regulation Foundation (GDPR F)
December, 2018 |St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Data Science and Data Engineering Bootcamp
February, 2017 |Amsterdam, Netherlands.


Most popular...
Publication:
Internet Penetration and Usage in Kosovo, 2nd Ed.
August, 2013. | STIKK.

Article:
How to use corporate e-mail analysis to reveal hidden stars and ensure equal opportunities!
December, 2018. | Towards Data Science

Portfolio
Machine Learning at Haufe (2019)
Talks (Freiburg, Germany.)
Kosovo gets an IXP (2011)
Talks (Dubrovnik, Croatia) (pdf)
IT Operations - Queue Approach (2013)
Talks (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
DevOps Transformation - Another view! (2016)
Talks (St. Gallen, Switzerland)