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

Leading the Observability and Streaming teams
In Observability we are responsible to maintain and upgrading the N26 Observability platform that supports N26 development teams in understanding what is happening at all times with their systems.
We are responsible for maintaining upgrading and connecting tools like Kibana and Opensearch for logging, Datadog for Metrics and Traces and Opsgenie for Incident Management.
In Streaming we are responsible of maintaining and upgrading N26 Streaming platform that supports all N26 micro-services  to communicate between each other. We leverage tools like Kinesis and Kafka.
My focus is to help both teams to define, execute and deliver on vision (for Observability and Streaming).
For this I mainly focus on:
- 1:1 Coaching
- Partner with Product Management to align Product Vision
- Align with Tech Leads on defining technical roadmaps
- Performance Reviews
- Align with the team to focus on delivery and predictability.

Engineering Manager - Observability

Leadership in Writing

Talking about Leadership and it ways in https://luisfranqueira.substack.com/

Leadership Team

DefinedCrowd Corp.

Responsible for following services:
- Orchestrated the development of tools for recording phone calls, converting them to text and delivering results to customers
- Managed a team of nine (BE, FE QA), ensuring delivery, coaching and operational excellence
- Ensured compliance with security protocols

Goals:
* Line Management
* Delivery Management - work with team members towards improved predictability and throughput
* Partner with Product Management defining roadmaps
* partner with Product Owners to define sprint deliverables
* Manage the team Engineering roadmap
* Perform 1:1s
* Retention
* Interviews/Hiring
* Performance appraisals and reviews
* Work with team to improve quality standards
* Foster team ownership and pro-activity in tackling issues and new features.
* Foster collaboration between team members and Product Management

Lead Software Engineer

- Established QA automated framework to improve quality assurance capabilities
- Helped in recruiting and onboarding a QA professionals
- Mentored, and developed QA people

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Uphold Inc.

- Established QA team and automated framework to improve quality assurance capabilities
- Recruited and onboarded a four-member QA team
- Directed, mentored, and developed QA people

Goals:
* Line Management
* Perform 1:1s
* Retention
* Interviews/Hiring
* Performance appraisals and reviews
* Work with team to improve company quality standards
* Foster team ownership and pro-activity
* Foster collaboration between team members and Software Engineers
* Cultivate mindset of continuous improvement and continuous testing
* Experiment often new ways of working and always on the lookout for improving best practices.
* Help team to nourish automation first mindset across engineering team

Head of Product Quality

Agile Connect®

Agile Connect® is a learning platform that encourages and supports the widespread adoption of effective Lean & Agile thinking and practices.

In simple words, our purpose is to “Inspire people and organizations to embrace a growth mindset”.

We envision a world driven by learning organizations, “powered” by astonishing teams, built around motivated individuals.

We inspire people and organizations to achieve their full potential, by:
– Spreading Lean and Agile thinking and practices.
– Nurturing people’s autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
– Applying complexity theory to solve complex challenges.

Co-founder & Agile Ninja

Fyde

Quality Assurance Engineer

Mindera

Mobile Quality Assurance Engineer

Farfetch

QA Engineer

I am an Engineering Leader with nearly 10 years of experience in software engineering, spanning various domains and technologies. My mission is to build and nurture teams, guiding them to define, execute, and achieve their vision while maintaining operational excellence and ensuring customer satisfaction.

As a leader, I prioritize collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement. I dedicate myself to coaching and mentoring team members to foster their growth and development. In partnership with the Group Product Manager, I ensure our teams' roadmaps are in strategic alignment with the company's overarching goals.

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