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Higher Productivity

Higher Quality

Higher Value

Elevated Customer Satisfaction

More Joy

What Others Say

I recently had the pleasure of working with Tobias, and I can say without hesitation that my coaching experience with him has been great. I highly recommend him to anyone who is looking for a supportive and knowledgeable coach to help them navigate the challenges of a new role or environment.

Tobi, at all times, found great opportunities to improve culture, processes, and technologies to significantly boost developer productivity and experience. I would not have to think twice if I got the opportunity to work with him again.

I highly recommend working with Tobi on your technical and cultural challenges. He is a great communicator, able to explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical folks. His wealth of knowledge, kind and caring nature, positive attitude, and problem-solving skills made him a joy to work with.

I worked with Tobi for almost three years across multiple teams. I witnessed how the environment where Tobi is present transforms into a highly performant one, where people collaborate heavily, trust each other and enjoy working together.

Even just one session with Tobias provided value for us. It was thought-provoking and we had enough action points to work on internally.

Tobi impresses as an outstanding Technical Lead with his cross-functional expertise spanning Backend, Frontend, Infrastructure, Databases, Architecture, and CI/CD. He is also an excellent facilitator and ensures everyone is heard in meetings. With a rapid understanding of complex code and an eye for identifying and cleaning up Technical Debt, he quickly pinpoints the causes of problems and offers swift, well-thought-out solutions. He keeps a high quality standard in focus, fosters collaboration, and inspires colleagues to develop continually.

Tobias has the skills, the knowledge and the heart to sustainably increase performance and humanness in organizations.

Hi, I’m Tobi.

I help software companies to develop better software faster and have more fun in the process.

Higher productivity, higher quality, happier customers and employees.

No one-size-fits-all.
No off-the-shelf solutions.
No BS.

Just tangible results.

How does that work? It depends. 😉

I achieve this through …

💡 creating AHA moments,
🧑‍💻 actively working in and on the company as a software engineer, tech lead, CTO or coach,
📈 focusing on developer experience, bottlenecks, and hidden potential,
🧑‍🏫 targeted interactive training and needs-based (technical) coaching for teams and managers,
🌐 a holistic view of entrepreneurship and software development,
🫂 a focus on humans and their interactions,
😍 my contagious enthusiasm for the 3 Cs: culture, code and collaboration paired with many years of experience in software development, leadership and entrepreneurship.

(among other things)

Your Benefits

When working with me, you will have the following benefits (and more):

A flexible “joker” that adapts to the needs of your organization with 15+ years of experience in software engineering, developer experience, and leadership
“Not my job” doesn’t exist for me. If it’s what I can add the most value with, I’ll do it.
Over a decade of experience in software engineering, architecture and distributed systems
Years of hands-on experience in the startup eco-system and with leading remote teams
A critical and empathic sparring partner to challenge your ideas and help you find better solutions
The symbiosis of deep technical expertise and deep social skills.
Full cost control, full transparency, full flexibility: We collaborate. As intensively as necessary, for as long as necessary and on the important topics

Choose me as a partner who will help you drive success for your team and organization. We can work in English or German.

A Simple Approach

💬 We discuss your needs and if and how I can help you.
🎯 We define the objectives and scope of our collaboration.
🤝 We collaborate. As long as needed and as much as needed.

Full transparency, fair pricing

We define monthly limits appropriate for the objectives.
You get billed for hours worked, not for contingents.
You never pay more than we agreed on.

(Past) Topics

The following is an incomplete and shortened list of topics I have helped clients with.
I am sharing it as an inspiration about topics where I might positively impact your organization.
Still, my interest, experience, and capabilities are not limited to this list.

Leadership

Development of tech strategy and vision
Building and developing high-performing teams and organizations
Building leadership communities for cross-team alignment
Introducing OKRs and other approaches for focus and alignment
Facilitating team sessions for better alignment and a real “we” feeling
Coaching leaders in supporting and building high-performing teams
Introduction of distributed decision-making processes

Growth

Creating clarity about the “how” of org scaling
Definition of role profiles and development of a (tech) hiring strategy
Hiring lead engineers and CTOs
Onboarding engineers and creating better onboarding processes
Optimizing team structures/topologies and architecture for improved flow and reduced communication overhead
Creating platform teams for infrastructure and developer experience
Transformation of “Testing Teams” into “Enabling Teams of QA Experts”
Preparation for upcoming technical due diligences
Achieving SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance without negatively impacting developer productivity and experience

Collaboration

Leading cross-team efforts for architecture refactorings
Training for tools, processes, and methods
Facilitation of team coding sessions
Leading collaborative architecture mapping sessions for a common architectural understanding and documentation of the status quo
Facilitation of retrospectives and incremental development of better ways of working
Technical and agile coaching for teams, managers, and other individuals for more know-how, improved team dynamics, and intrinsic motivation

Tech

Improving software quality by introducing automated tests, better practices and standards
Making and documenting (architectural) decisions
Introducing continuous integration and continuous deployments
Optimizing and automating processes
Reducing pipeline lead times (often about 70% or more)
Migrating to the cloud (and from the cloud)
Refactoring legacy applications into services
Introducing and improving monitoring and alerting
Introducing and optimizing “Infrastructure as Code”
Developing knowledge bases
Defining and introducing incident management processes
Defining and collecting metrics and signals for a better understanding of developer experience and productivity
Reducing software and infrastructure complexity
Automating dependency updates
Optimizing cloud and infrastructure costs
Introducing technical risk/debt inventories to increase transparency and simplify prioritization of investments
Finding and removing bugs, scaling impediments, and performance bottlenecks
Defining and driving initiatives for improved developer experience and -productivity

Product

Introducing incremental product development
Finding smaller increments and working in shorter feedback loops
Defining and collecting metrics and feedback for data-driven product development
Aligning product and tech strategy
Implementing features
Developing prototypes

My Values

The following values guide my personal and professional life and shape interactions, work, and decisions.
These values define who I work with and how we work together.

Impact

I positively impact the world, nature, and the people around me. My activity improves the work and life of humans and increases connection and community.

Trust & Openness

I trust in people and openly share information and my perspective as I trust that people are good and use it with the best intent.

Empathy & Connection

I meet people with empathy and seek connection as I believe we are stronger together and everybody is giving their best.

Autonomy

People are at their best when they have freedom and pursue self-determined activities. I share knowledge freely to foster the independence and autonomy of the people around me.

Learning & Growth

Lifelong learning is the foundation for continuous and increasing positive impact. I see mistakes, disagreements, and new perspectives as opportunities to learn and grow.

Known From…

Get in Touch!

I invite you to schedule a free 30-minute Discovery Call with me below.

During this call, we can get to know each other better and find out if I am the right partner for you.
I can also answer any questions you might have.

I am looking forward to meeting you.