25+ years · 15 institutions · measured outcomes
Who I am
I am Marius Mihail Russo-Got — also published as Marius Russo. Romanian, based in Bucharest, with a 5-year engineering degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (EQF Level 7).
Over more than 25 years I have moved through the full arc of mission-critical IT delivery: systems engineering and IT direction at Helinick (1996–2002), large-scale secure-network programme delivery at Alcatel (2002–2006), distributed-team programme management at Motorola (2006–2008), regulated-client architecture and programme advisory at IBM (2008–2011), security and IT governance at Groupe Société Générale / BRD (2011–2013), advisory at the European Central Bank and UNDP / EU Advisory Group in Armenia and Georgia (2014–2015), enterprise platform transformation at the United Nations HQ — OICT (2016–2019), Section Head for Digital and AI at the Innovation Center (2019–2022), Senior Project Manager for Cloud Security and Architecture at the EEAS (2022–2023), Section Head for Content Collaboration at NATO / NCIA / NDW in The Hague (2023–2024), and currently Chief Innovation Officer / CTO at PIR2-IT, serving government, banking and defence clients across Europe, the Gulf and the United States.
The shape of the work has been consistent: institutions bring me in when transformation must land cleanly under regulatory, security or institutional pressure, and they need a single named architect who personally signs off on the architecture, the governance posture and the delivery plan.
What I actually do
The portfolio runs across top-tier banking and financial services, digital public infrastructure and government modernisation, defence and intelligence, and international organisations. Full lifecycle: strategy → target architecture → roadmap → delivery → cutover → operate → optimise → retire.
Two strands worth surfacing explicitly. On national-scale DPI: architecture authority on Romania's flagship sovereign digital services — ePassport, eVignette, eHealth, eCadastre — and DPI advisory across 59 countries covering identity, trust, interoperability, payments and citizen-facing service delivery at country scale. On quantum strategy: advising sovereign and regulated institutions in the Middle East on quantum-safe migration planning, cryptographic agility and post-quantum architecture posture.
1996 → present
Named roles, named institutions, named outcomes. Not a list of responsibilities — the actual delivery record.
Credentials
How I think about the work
Best-fit mandates
Where I deliver best value
Top-tier banking modernisation under SWIFT CSP / PCI DSS / ISO 27001.
Digital public infrastructure design and delivery for governments.
NATO and defence digital programmes with classified-environment delivery.
UN-system and EU-institution platform transformation.
Government interoperability and data-exchange backbone architecture.
Digital backbone consolidation and optimisation across complex estates.
AI governance and quantum-readiness strategy for regulated institutions.
Architecture authority as second-line review on troubled programmes.
How engagements work
Scoped against a written architecture or governance mandate, not a generic SOW.
I personally hold and sign the architectural decisions — not delegated.
Deliverables are evidence-led: target architecture, decision logs, control matrices, delivery KPIs, transition states.
Engagements run from intensive multi-week interventions through multi-year retained advisory.
Remote-first across Europe; on-site at NATO, UN, EU and banking locations as required.
Engagement-confidential metrics available under NDA on request.
Frequently asked questions
Ready to discuss an engagement?
Architecture authority, governance design, digital backbone consolidation, DPI delivery — or a second-line architecture review on a programme already in motion.