CPTO & Tech Founder with 15+ years of experience scaling product, engineering, and technology organizations.
Proven record in restructuring, post-merger integration, and delivering enterprise value across multiple industries. Growth-driven. Obsessed with slim processes and smart system architecture.
Strong open-source footprint. Consultant. Proud dad.
I build bridges between business and technology.
Looking back at a wild and intensive journey, where I had the chance to learn from the most amazing people, working on all kinds of digital products and services.
Spanning from startups to large corporations, from consumer to enterprise, from websites to SaaS to Apps to marketplaces to AI.
Always delivering excellence and creating real value end-to-end.
Business Strategy
- Conducted technical due diligence for Private Equity investments, identifying risks, value creation levers, and optimization opportunities.
- Led digital product, transformation, engineering, and/or strategy divisions at leading international corporation as well as different SMEs.
- Consulted many other corporates (Robotics, Automotive, Heavy Machinery, Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, ...) on digital strategy with a focus on product and technology.
Leadership
- Inspired and managed teams (directly and indirectly) of all sizes: Up to 60 people.
- Successfully built up, scaled, and led countless product and engineering teams at different companies.
- Executive management experience in various industries.
Entrepreneurship
- Founded 2 tech startups (one funded by and exited to CHECK24, one bootstrapped with no exit).
- Founded, monetized, and scaled multiple solo-preneur ventures.
- Founded multiple digital corporate ventures in various industries.
Project Management
- Over 150 digital projects so far.
- Led projects at all kinds of setups: startup, corporate, management consulting, B2B, B2C, B2B2C, brownfield, greenfield, restructure, turnaround, ...
Product Excellence
- Successfully introduced multiple companies to agile methodologies, design thinking, and more.
- Designed, built, and launched all kinds of products and services - from simple websites to SaaS to AI and robot management systems.
Engineering
- Experienced full-stack developer and system architect for 24 years.
- Advised multiple Private Equity teams on investments via tech due diligence.
- Creator and maintainer of highly successful open source projects.
Marketing & UX
- Recognized Consumer Behavior, UX, and Marketing expert.
- Years of experience making sense of data and optimizing user flows.
UI Design
- Web designer for 19 years.
- Familiar with all kinds of design principles, systems, and workflows (e.g. Material Design, Fluent Design, Atomic Design, Storybook, ...).