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

DevCode Identity

System Developer

madworx AB (move.L consulting)

The company was started by me in 2002 for the purpose of developing system management services and a transaction management/workflow platform that I had developed.

Over the years, madworx has provided consultancy services to a large number of customers, as well as developed systems and frameworks to manage the operation and monitoring of customers' servers and services in a very resource-efficient manner. (A team of three on-call technicians monitored and managed over 100 servers, with different software and hardware environments, in a reliable manner with full traceability for routine work and incidents.)

Recent projects included:

* Technical due dilligence for a €18M company purchase.
 * Design, implementation and continual operation of an e-mail sending platform for the largest automated tendering company in Sweden.
 * Architecture of a platform for massive sending of voice calls, as well as hardware sizing for this.
 * Network design for one of Spotify's biggest suppliers of digitized music.
 * Platform for network availability, performance and security monitoring.
 * Complete high-performance, embedded SNMPv2 implementation in Java.
 * 802.1Q (VLAN) segmented network bridge with L3/L4 filtering, based on Linux 2.6 kernel.

Founder

Eyeonid Group AB

Chief Technology Officer

Eficode

The future is fun, creative & automated! Eficode is Europe’s DevOps, software, UX + design company.

Country Manager & Team Lead

Nordic Growth Market NGM AB

Responsible for development of the operations and support of the NGM exchange’ real-time market platform, processing some 100 million transactions per day and supporting members spread across Europe.

The work included everything from system architecture and software development, to budgeting, team leadership and motivation, strategic planning, network-, software- and server debugging as well as project management.

Head of IT operations

Pixbox (Anomalies AB)

Pixbox was founded by two partners and me - Together we created what became the 8th largest website in Sweden, and the largest photo-sharing community in Scandinavia with over 150,000 users and more than 40 million user uploaded photos.

I designed and implemented the majority of the infrastructure (servers, services, networking). All components in the system were designed to be isolated and freely scalable to enable services to be migrated between servers as system load occurred in different parts of the environment.

After the initial development, I took on a more traditional CTO role, working with the overall strategies and coaching the development team.

Founder and CTO

Global Mouth AB

During my time at Globalmouth, I created a platform for payment processing, automatic content adaptation, content distribution and inventory management, primarily via mobile devices.

This platform was used to deliver both run-of-the-mill services such as ringtones and cellphone background images, but also exclusive projects such as all mobile services and mobile web in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Content (Melodifestivalen), the Swedish Hockey League and FIFA World Cup.

Key technologies: Linux, HP-UX, PostgreSQL, PHP, Java (J2SE), ETSI/GSM 03.40 (3GPP TS 23.040), XHTML.

PlusFourSix AB

Responsible  for  software  development  and  system  operations. 

Notable  projects  include  initial design  and  development  of  the  backend  part  of  the  mobile B2B2C platform  on  which  PlusFourSix  ran  all its  mobile  marketing  activities,  with  end-customers  such  as  Ericsson,  SonyEricsson,  Samsung,  Netcom  and  Tele2. 

Key  technologies:  Java  SE,  PHP,  High  availability.

Software Developer, System Administrator

Mobilehits AB (Aspiro AB)

System  architecture  and  software  development  of  content  adaptation  and  delivery  for  mobile devices.

Mobilehits  AB  was  acquired  by  Aspiro  AB  in  2003. 

Key  technologies:  C,  Java,  PostgreSQL,  Linux,  Solaris,  SMAF,  MIDI.

Senior Software Developer

Melody Interactive Solutions AB

- Software development, mainly in C on x86 and SPARC architecture.
- Wrote tools to automatically test and monitor our flagship product, the Wireless Access Gateway.
- Was responsible for the system management and backups of the production environment.
- My work attributed to acquiring certifications from all leading SMSC manufacturers.

Key technologies: C, Solaris/SunOS, Cross platform development (Unix/Windows), PostgreSQL, Mimer SQL, Java.

Software Developer

Experienced developer and leader with over 20 years of practical experience with Software development, operations and leadership.

Specialties: DevOps, High-availability solutions, Designing and implementing backend systems, Unix/Linux, network communication.

And yes, the emoji in my last name is to allow me to discern proper connection requests from bot- ones.

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