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

Agile Classrooms

Agile Classrooms helps reinvigorate learning and school culture through crafting authentic 21st Century learning environments that deepens the learning, enriched relationships, and broadens the future. 

Agile Classrooms have been applied to core classes, Computer Science classes, project based learning, Maker Spaces, Student Clubs, Professional Learning Communities, School & District Leadership teams, Special Education  and Education Technology Departments.

www.AgileClassrooms.com

Chief Empowerment Officer

I help organizations and educators thrive using modern methods—Agile, Lean, Product Thinking, and Human-Centered Design.

At Agile Classrooms, I design systems that free people to focus on what matters most: delivering value, growing capability, and working with purpose. Whether I’m supporting a school shifting to student-led learning or a team adopting Agile to move faster with clarity, the goal is the same—unlocking autonomy with alignment.

My work spans K–12 education, nonprofits, and corporate teams. I equip leaders, teachers, and teams with the mindsets, routines, and tools to create responsive systems where people aren’t micromanaged—they’re empowered.

Focus areas:

Agile and Scrum for teams and leaders
Product development with clarity and purpose
Systems that grow self-direction and shared ownership
Training and certification programs that drive real change
Coaching educators and professionals in modern methods
The old playbooks of control and compliance no longer work. I help people write better ones.

Agile For All, LLC

Agile For All guides companies through the difficulties and nuances required to embrace Agile effectively and produce one-of-kind transformation. We apply a full range of Agile techniques, practices, principles and values to each client engagement to help them achieve Agile success regardless of industry. Our documented history of success demonstrates that Agile is an effective enabler for achieving business goals anywhere in an organization, even well beyond the domain of software development.

We help clients become high-performance businesses through the adoption of Agile principles and values which drive success. We draw from Agile processes, including Scrum and XP, Kanban, Lean Thinking, Theory of Constraints, psychology, anthropology, and more. To us, success is exceeding our clients’ expectations so they can exceed their customers’ expectations.

In short, we are busy Making Agile a Reality® for our clients!

Agile Coach and Trainer

Blueprint Education Inc.

Serving as a member of the Director of Board for Blueprint Education to inspire and champion 21st century leaders of tomorrow.

Board Member

The Braintrust Consulting Group

Improving quality of lives, teams, and organizations by helping organizations in their transformation to become more Agile. 
Training and coaching on Agile and Kanban.
Coaching teams and individuals throughout the transition of their new roles and skills.
Organizational and cultural change.

Agile Trainer and Coach

Litchfield Elementary School District

Implemented Scrum and Kanban for all teams, from Service Desk to Projects.
Spread Scrum outside of the department by helping schools, classrooms, and other departments to use Scrum.  
Developed and trained on Scrum for internal teams as well as others in the Arizona education sector.  Developed and conducted training on education technology and 21st century skills, in person and online.

Director of Education Technology

Trinity School

Assisted in infusing technology into the classroom at Manhattan’s most prestigious
private school. Provided education focused technology support. Administered a tech-
nology infrastructure consisting of over 500 computers, fiber and wireless networks,
PBX systems, Internet security, Active Directory, and Exchange servers.

Systems Analyst

Imbot

•Led and managed the Internet infrastructure and communication operation members.
 •Provided 24x7 access to online services for our global clients through the design and implementation of geo-redundant data centers, web and database replication, load-balancing, and automated monitoring.
•Project manager for data center consolidation project which cut data center costs by 40%.

Internet Infrastructure Manager

Register.com

Formed and led a network operations team. 
Developed policies and procedures, and implementing low cost high-availability solutions. 
Recruited as the Help Desk Manager and quickly promoted to the Network Operations Manager, overseeing all voice and data communications.

Network Operations Manager

Baltimore City Police Department

•Administered and supported all technology services, encompassing 9 police districts, ranging from email services, Novell, firewalls, Lotus Notes, and mainframe integration.
•Project Manager for new desktop deployment to all 9 police districts.

Network Administrator

I guide business and education leaders to craft innovative and agile environments for learning and building things that matter. 

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