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

Swedbank

Enterprise Portfolio Management Office. Supporting Lean Agile transformation. Working for transparency, value and flow in the Enterprise IT Portfolio.

Senior Transformation Lead

FinOps Foundation

FinOps Foundation Community Member

The Linux Foundation

FinOps Certified Practitioner

Centigo

Program and Project Manager, Senior Advisor with expertise in Governance of Cost and Value of IT & Cloud Services. TBM. FinOps. ITSM. LPM.
Passionate about supporting IT organisations in their transformation to become value creating business partners. Leading larger expert assignments and improvement projects with help of the frameworks of Technology Business Management (TBM), IT Financial Management, ITIL, Cloud FinOps, SAFe.

Senior Advisor

Acando

IT Service Management (ITSM) - focus on Service Strategy, Service Design. Specialised in IT Finance Management, Portfolio Management, Service Catalogue & Service Level Management, Showback, Chargeback & IT Services Cost Management. 
Keeping up a structured approach by applying Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, Enterprise Content Management.

IT Management Consultant

Connecta AB

Since July 2014 Connecta is Acando.
IT Business Service Management (ITSM) - focus on Service Strategy, Service Design. Specialised in IT Finance Management, Portfolio Management, Service Catalogue & Level Management, Showback, Chargeback & IT Services Cost Management.

Project Management, Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM),  IT Business Service Management (ITSM) - focus on Service Strategy, Service Design

Consultant Strategy & Architecture

Modul 1

Consultancy in the area of Project and Application Portfolio Management, Business Process Analysis and  Design. IT Portfolio Management Process. Project Manager.

Consultant IT Management

Hummingbird AB, Sweden

Management of implementation projects for Hummingbird’s ECM solutions.

Project Manager Enterprise Solutions

USU AG

Strategic product management and consulting for Valuemation, a leading solution within IT Service Management.
Project Manager for the implementation of a complex IT controlling solution (including IT Asset Management, IT Settlement Model and Settlement Solution) for one of Germany's largest finance- and insurance groups.

Senior Consultant, Product Manager IT Services Financial Management

1784 S.A., Argentina

Responsible for building and managing the “Organisation and methods” area for 1784 S. A. Sociedad Gerente de Fondos Comunes de Inversión, a large local subsidiary investment company of Bank Boston.

Area Manager "Organisation and Methods"

Most exciting at the moment: implementing strategic tool support for Enterprise Agile Planning!

At Swedbank, my role as a Senior Transformation Lead revolves around enhancing enterprise agility and driving transparent IT governance. With a strong background in Technology Business Management and Lean Portfolio Management, my energy goes to promoting a culture focused on accountability in a federated organisation and optimizing value within our Enterprise IT Portfolio.

As a TBM Certified Executive (CTBME), I leverage many years of experience in IT Financial Management. My expertise lies in implementing robust frameworks such as Technology Business Management, Cloud Financial Management and SAFe to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness in IT solution delivery. These competencies reflect my ongoing commitment to excellence and my dedication to advancing operational transparency and strategic value in the evolving landscape executing on strategy.

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