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Lavastro

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I'm Damir Bogadi. I help teams build the right product.

I've spent more than 15 years between business and technology: as a management consultant at KPMG, as a product owner and project manager at Deutsche Telekom's Croatian operator, and as a product manager for software companies such as Opensignal and Determ. I've freelanced since 2021 and full-time through Lavastro since 2023, today as the digital product owner of a Databricks data platform for a Fortune 500 animal health company in the US.

The name Lavastro joins “lav”, Croatian for lion, with “astro”, the stars: together, the constellation Leo, which is also the logo.

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Damir Bogadi
Zagreb, Croatia (EU) · English and Croatian
years between business and technology
15+
years between business and technology
years at KPMG Management Consulting
4
years at KPMG Management Consulting
years at Hrvatski Telekom (Deutsche Telekom group)
7
years at Hrvatski Telekom (Deutsche Telekom group)
years in product and project roles
10+
years in product and project roles

Experience

Where the experience comes from

  1. 2023 – today

    Owner and consultant, Lavastro

    I registered Lavastro after leaving Determ in 2023. Since then all my work is freelance through it: product roles embedded in client teams (below), business cases and market research. NonStopExcel is the Excel reporting side of this work.

  2. Sept 2025 – today Through Lavastro

    Digital product owner, US animal health company (Fortune 500)

    Product ownership for a unified data platform on Databricks that processes in-clinic and reference-lab test results for animals, between the source systems and the portals that serve them.

  3. 2024 Through Lavastro

    Product manager, Opensignal

    Telecom analytics software for a London-based company that measures mobile network experience worldwide.

  4. 2021 – 2023

    Freelance consultant, alongside employed roles

    Requirements, a business case and a pitch deck for a US marketplace startup (2021), and a data cleansing and matching project for a US telecom (2022–2023).

  5. Jul 2022 – Jul 2023

    Product manager, Determ

    A B2B media-monitoring SaaS with more than 3,000 users worldwide. User interviews, data and competitor analysis, the product strategy and vision, feature workshops, and a Scrum team of seven.

  6. Jan – Jun 2022

    Senior product owner, Bornfight

    A Swedish subscription e-commerce site built with React and Node.js. Steered its development, scaled it to additional brands and ran a Scrum team of nine.

  7. 2015 – 2022

    Project manager and product owner, Hrvatski Telekom

    Built the reporting for the ICT services portfolio by connecting the data warehouse to PowerPivot, ran big-data projects (including an EU research project with Fraunhofer) and grew B2B digital sales.

  8. 2011 – 2015

    Management consultant, KPMG Croatia

    Financial models and cost-allocation models, procurement reporting for a regional oil & gas company, business-plan reviews, due diligence, and dozens of IT audits for banks, including a central bank.

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