Tech Unicorn Builders

Hands-on Growth Studio for Scaleups: automations, AI MVPs, product analytics, and insights, CPTO coaching. Short-term high-impact projects that help you grow your revenues and minimize chaos. Build faster, automate smarter, and grow with data. We help you scale product, team, and market with AI, analytics, and hands-on execution.

Co-Founder

EffizienzAgent

Automation specialist helping German SMEs eliminate manual processes. GDPR-compliant solutions delivering ROI within 1-2 months. Remote-first approach for cost-effective implementation across DACH region.

Automating what annoys you. 🤖

Founder, CEO, Consultant

Diving Nomads

Bridging the gap between deep focus and deep dives. I’m co-building a community for certified divers who work remotely — curating remote-work friendly dive spots, organizing colivings and pop-up divecations, and creating spaces for meaningful connection both online and in real life.

We're building a platform where freedom meets flow — for freelancers, founders, and creatives who live and dive differently.

🌍 divingnomads.club

unblocked.engineering by INOCEA Consulting Ltd.

Technical Leadership, Technical Advisory, and Lean Software Development for SaaS Startups from Seed to Series B.

Founder, Fractional / Interim Tech Lead, Tech Advisor, Trainer & Mentor

Seed-Stage Startup

Introducing Product Discovery and Sync processes, enabling the team to work on the most important things. Running product strategy workshops with the team to enable better decision-making on all levels. Product management for a mobile app. Technical coaching for dev teams, introduction and facilitation of retrospectives and continuous improvement of ways of working. Introducing infrastructure as code and increasing automation of the deploy process.

Interim/Fractional Senior Product Manager & Technical Agile Coach

The Mentoring Club

Helping young software professionals from around the world with their next step. Mentoring on topics like leadership, software engineering and architecture, agile & lean, remote work, SaaS/Cloud, developer experience and organizational design and culture.

https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/tobias-mende

Mentor

Stealth Startup

Technical Advisor and Technical Agile Coach

Supporting the founding team in technical and cultural questions and decisions to ensure quality, scalability and development speed. Coaching and mentoring the team in development (technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Vue, Go, GCP, Mongo, Elastic). Architecture and code reviews and recommendations for action. Coaching of junior developers. Development of prototypes and proofs of concept. Increasing testability and reducing the complexity of architecture and code. Development of tech vision and strategy.

Fractional CTO and Technical Advisor

BRYTER

Founded and led a cross-functional platform team to improve developer experience and productivity, implementing continuous delivery, reducing the development lead time by 75%, and driving cultural and technical changes toward engineering excellence.

Developer Experience Engineer and Technical Lead

PAYONE

Development of payment connectors and fraud prevention systems. Refactoring of monolithic applications into independent services. Reduction of development lead time by 50%.

Senior Software Developer / Architect

Dräger

Application development for distributed gas detection systems. Teaching Git, Git workflows and TDD. Promoting awareness of software craft and introducing Continuous Integration in multiple teams and projects.

Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Coach and Trainer

I help SaaS companies with up to 250 employees build a high-performing engineering organization by utilizing my expertise in (technical) leadership and developer productivity.

🚀 Helping Founders Build Businesses That Run Smoothly — Without Becoming the Bottleneck

You started your business with passion and vision. But as it grows, new challenges emerge:

⚡ More and more decisions demand your input.
⚡ Your team hesitates to take full ownership.
⚡ Delegation feels impossible — things still land back on your plate.
⚡ The quality isn’t where you want it to be, and stepping away seems risky.

This is a natural stage of growth, but it doesn’t have to stay this way.

I help founders break free from being the bottleneck by building self-sustaining businesses — where teams take ownership, make smart decisions, and keep things running smoothly without constant oversight. The goal? A business that thrives, even when you step away.

👥 What I Do

I work as a sparring partner, advisor, and trainer for founders of growing startups and SMBs, helping them:

🔍 Uncover blind spots – Identify what’s slowing down decision-making and execution.
🛠 Enable smart leadership – Build structures that empower your team to take real responsibility.
📈 Streamline operations – Reduce complexity, eliminate bottlenecks, and free up your time for what truly matters.

The result? Less stress, fewer roadblocks, and a company that works — with or without you.

🌍 Who I Am

I’m Tobi — entrepreneur, leadership advisor, and sparring partner for founders who want high-performing businesses without unnecessary stress.

As a digital nomad, I’ve worked with founders worldwide and seen firsthand how different cultures approach leadership, decision-making, and collaboration. I know that “right and wrong” are often contextual, that true resilience comes from adaptability, and that great companies are built on trust and autonomy.

🌊 Home is wherever the ocean is. As a rebreather diver, I know that true freedom comes when you trust your system, stay calm under pressure, and let things run smoothly — just like in a well-functioning business.

Tobias Mende

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Business Manager - Cloud Enablement

HSBC

Agile Engagement Lead

JIRA PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Refinitiv

Engineering Tools Specialist

Premium Credit Ltd

Senior PMO Analyst

Willis Towers Watson

Scrum Master/Agile PMO

Hitachi Data Systems

Thomson Reuters

My main role is to support the Programme and Project Managers during the Data Centre Rationalisation and Technology Alignment Programme mentoring and coaching project managers in modern methodologies and techniques.

Key responsibilities include:
	Day to day management of a Programme support office
	Provide support and guidance to the Project Managers and Programme Manager at pre-inception, initiation & throughout the life cycle of the Programme, ensuring common approach is adopted & sharing good practice
	Set standards for how projects are run and ensure project management standards are followed by developing wide range of documentations using PMP and Agile technologies
	Gathering of projects data and production of information for management review
	Conduct analysis on processes and tools to improve efficiency and performance
	Working on managing and facilitating the portfolio management process
	Complex Data analysis using MS Excel – design and maintain
	Design reports using MS Access
	Process development and optimatisation
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	Capturing project requests and ensuring each request has sufficient information to assess the project
	Implementing scoring and prioritisation models to help assess which requests should be approved.
	Keeping an up-to-date repository of projects underway and requests pending review – Developed strategy and Implemented Kanban tool to help management maximise the productivity of team 
	Implemented on-boarding training programme for new starters
	Created and maintained Programme internal web sites and SharePoint sites to ensure stakeholders are up to date with prgramme progress
	Track Programme financials

Key responsibilities include assisting the Head of PMO:

	Provide planning and analytical support to global project manager using MS Project as a reporting tool.  Capture, consolidate and report project progress in timely manner.  
	Ensuring internal and external consistency of reporting to be monitored and controlled at project level.  Ensure interdependencies within programme and project plans are identified and reflected. Assist and advise other project managers in building plans and filing in project documentation and forms.  To review and enforce the organisations planning framework, processes and procedures producing status reports in accordance with schedules. 
	Present information for internal meetings on the projects.
	Day to day management of a Programme support office (Governance, reporting, managing risks and issues registers)

PMO Analyst/Planner

Liverpool Victoria

My main role is to support the IT Programme and Project Managers during the implementation of a new claim management system ClaimCentre.
Key responsibilities include:
Day to day management of a Programme support office
Provide support and guidance to the Project Managers and Programme Manager at pre-inception, initiation & throughout the life cycle of the Programme, ensuring common approach is adopted & sharing good practice.
Check adherence to the Programme objectives and ensure governance is in line with the overall portfolio
Support Programme and Project Managers and Programme and seek to improve key reporting tasks (e.g., preparation of Steering Group Pack, progress reporting, performance analysis and issues, risks, assumptions and dependency maintenance.)
Collate and conduct quality checks of IT workstreams updates and production of milestone and  progress reports for various stakeholders
Provide visibility of progress across the projects providing basis for further decisions
Maintain risk and issues logs, ensuring actions and mitigation are up to date, collating new risks and issues
Maintain the project schedule, tracking milestones and escalating as appropriate
Analyse interfaces and critical dependencies between projects as required
Manage resource plans
	Manage and maintain programme documentation using arePoint
General project related support, including ownership of smaller workstreams of activity, producing statements of work, assisting with production of presentation
Manage project Purchase Orders (POs) - raise new ones, track existing ones and close down old ones
Undertake financial analysis of project costs – review monthly cost centre entries, update cost tracker and feed into cost forecasting process.
Liaise with individuals in project team, Finance and the wider business and IT community to understand and confirm costs being charged to the project

PMO Analyst

Result driven, focused proven Programme Senior PMO Analyst/ Planner with 18 year experience working on Programme Portfolios and major Projects, who can help startup and co-ordinate Global Programmes ensuring that they conform to company governance, run smoothly and realise their benefits. I am a self starter and am very well skilled in using the full MS applications suite of products and have designed many complex data spreadsheets using MS Excel. I am a competent user of MS Access, PowerPoint, Project, Excel, Visio, Planview, Clarity, and Leankit Kanban.  I have designed several Programme reports by interfacing this with an SQL 2000 database. My data manipulating and analytical skills are excellent and I could easily transition into a pure data analyst role. I have produced many presentations to senior executives using MS PowerPoint and in addition to MS Excel have also used Business Objects to create reports and generate dashboards.
Excellent data governance and management processes put in place to reduce data discrepencies and issues to ensure quality reporting and information management to various stakeholders.
I have produced several project plans and have consolidated them to create reports using various views for senior management reports.

I have an excellent analytical mind and can cope with multiple streams of work efficiently. My ideal position would be as a Scrum Master / PMO Manager.

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