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

Architecht

IT Quality and R&D Team Leader

Istanbul Technical University

University Lecturer

Sakarya Üniversitesi

Kuveyt Türk Katılım Bankası

Quality:
        Improving IT processes using different methods and techniques such as process mining, 
           benchmarking, qualitative and qualitative techniques
        IT process quality control and audit to ensure that IT processes are being implemented within 
           defined standards
        Implementation of best practices in sector to internal processes
        IT Governance and Agile Frameworks (ITIL, COBIT, Scrum, Kanban etc.) consultancy

Process:
        IT process analysis, design, and revision
        Management of IT policies, processes, procedures and job descriptions documents
       Compliance with regulations related to IT

Audit:
       Coordination of IT audit activities and following-up and reporting of findings
       Ensuring that corrective and preventive actions are taken for findings of information systems audits
	
Performance:
	Designing and reporting department scorecards for performance system in the bank
	Designing and reporting IT process performance metrics
	Reporting SLA performance for third-parties

IT Quality Management Team Lead

Leading the organization's agile transformation as an Agile coach following change management principles
Supporting teams to maximize their Agile maturity
Promoting and deploying Agile mindset, practices and tools
Collaborating with key stakeholders, agile leaders and ensuring communication and alignment with them
Developing and coaching teams for delivering value effectively by offering right approaches
Training the organization about Agile Mindset & practices
Ensuring the teams follow the enterprise scaling principles and processes

Agile Transformation Consultant

IT Process Quality Control and Audit
IT Process Consultancy, Development and Improvement
ITG Frameworks (ITIL, COBIT etc.) Consultancy
IT Audit Follow-up & Reporting 
SLM set-up
Incident Management Process Refinement

IT Quality Management Engineer

FlowConf - A Systems Thinking Conference

Volunteer/Member of FlowConf Team

Turkiye Finans Participation Bank

Being responsible for establishment and management of IT Quality Management process (COBIT v4.1 PO8 process in relevant)

Designing quality management system of IT and implementing methods for continuous workflow and process improvement via cross-functional improvement projects.

As an enabler for continuous improvement, mentoring, coaching and supporting teams to drive and foster an improvement culture.

Responsible for the direction, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of Continuous Improvement Projects for the portfolio of SDLC, project, portfolio, IT Enterprise Architecture management processes in particular.

Designing and modeling  IT processes along with their process control practices, with the guidance of IT frameworks (ITIL, COBIT etc.)

Defining IT Strategic Plan in line with the corporate strategy together with management level.

IT Process and Quality Specialist

Primary person in the transformation of processes of IT from waterfall to Scrum, that is the biggest in the Middle East and East Europe, and taking place in a highly regulated environment driven by COBIT (pioneer in Turkey)

Designing and modeling IT processes along with their process control practices, with the guidance of Agile Scrum framework

Delivering guideline manuals, trainings and coaching on the new Agile SW Development processes

Designing a complete Agile Application Lifecycle Management process workflows in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Attending to team Scrum ceremonies to define improvement areas

Leading agile transformation in Agile Studio (part time)

Agile Transformation Lead

Being responsible for establishment and management of IT Performance Monitoring and Evaluation process (COBIT v4.1 ME1 process in relevant)

Defining process performance metrics with process owners to provide a succinct and all-around view of IT performance. 

Defining metrics and scorecards with IT executive managers in order to be used in employee performance evaluation system

Periodically review performance against targets, analyze the cause of any deviations and initiating remedial actions upon deviations to address the underlying causes

Collating and translating process performance reports into management reports.

Developing senior management and C-level reports and dashboards of IT performance on Datazen application

Primary person in defining requirements and testing of KOKPIT application (a performance management process software). Being the owner of this software in production (pioneer in Turkey)

Gained experience on Scrum performance measurement in particular.

IT Performance Specialist

Performing activities in all aspects of the process, technology and people of Software Development Department to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and performance, such as:

Developing reports and dashboards including data of information systems tools (PPM, CA Service Desk, etc.) via Qlikview in order to provide management a platform to explore data of their interest.

Managing the project of developing MS Power View software application that consolidates isolated information systems'​  data (including PPM, CA Service Desk, etc.) to enable IT and business users data-driven decision-making platform. Being the owner of this software in production.  (cited as a Success Story by MS Turkey)

Implementation of best practices for IT Service Management and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes based on ITIL and COBIT and improving those processes based on the analysis. Participated in re-designing and re-modelling of SDLC processes along with their process control practices. 

Improving end user practices of platforms for communicating knowledge (such as wiki, file system, MS Outlook) for and across the people of the department.

Developing a platform to analyze personnel efficiency and skill set data ranging from work activities, off-office hour connections, overtime work etc. Defining and managing part-time and intern students' projects.

Software Efficiency Specialist

I am a seasoned expert who dives deep into the waters of agility, agile mindset, IT process improvement and more. From the academic halls of Gebze Technical University to leading teams in banking, I am passionate about contributing to the body of knowledge by sharing through public speaking, organizing events, lecturing at universities, mentoring and reviewing for international journals and conferences, and producing academic publications. I now work toward my Ph.D. degree at Gebze Technical University on agile mindset.

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