Description

I co-founded and built a ~20 person SaaS company, ran engineering as CTO, and took the product from draft to fortune global 50 enterprises and government customers.

I work with founders and SMEs building B2B or B2G software who need someone to steer the product through a wealth of competing requirements, without standing up a full-time product department first.

Whatever your next deadline is, I make sure your product meets it with its potential.

What I deliver

Clarity: Product tear-down short term

I go through your product, roadmap, and team, and hand you back a clear report on the current state and trajectory of your product alongside advice on prioritization and risks.

Focus: Product management end-to-end

I do discovery, scrutinize the roadmap, cut through complexity and align engineering, product, and sales without losing sight of leadership strategy. You get clear and grounded priorities and someone acting on them with precision.

How I work

Remote, in English and German, acting globally (US and Canada exempt) with efficient and reliable communication style.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Geovisual Interactive
CTO & Co-Founder
DIGITAL AND IT
October 2020 - March 2026 (5 years and 5 months)
Owned the product roadmap for B2B & B2G end-to-end, brokered priorities and trade-offs between product, sales and engineering, and evaluated and negotiated strategic partnerships
Led and developed software engineering team, occasional hands-on within Unreal Engine 5
Designed and owned most company processes across support, people, product, delivery, IT and knowledge management before handing them off as the company grew
Built a transparent, trust-based operating culture on an everyone-ships basis with a small remote team, short release cycles, minimal process and accountability between builders themselves
Brought a first-of-its-kind VC-backed product to enterprise and government customers
Owned project scoping, estimation and delivery, consistently shipping on budget and on schedule, and retained customers long-term through sustained quality and responsive feature delivery
Built and solo-administered the entire in-house IT stack on open source (Matrix, Wireguard, Nextcloud, Bluespice, TrueNAS)
MVP Product management System administration Strategic planning Tech Lead
Fraunhofer IIS
Embedded Software Developer
RESEARCH
October 2018 - October 2020 (2 years)
91 Erlangen, Germany
R&D for integrated circuits
Implemented channel-coding algorithms in C for large-scale, highly efficient satellite communication serving IoT devices in remote areas
C Embedded Systems Satellite communication
Airbus Space Division
Engineering Intern & Bachelor Thesis
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
January 2016 - April 2018 (2 years and 3 months)
Immenstaad am Bodensee, BW, Germany
Designed, built and launched circuit boards and prototypes for the International Space Station, e.g. the Electromagnetic Levitator and safety systems for the CIMON robot.
Electrical engineering Prototyping High-security environments