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

AWA Global

Product and Flow Coach

Thrivve Partners

I bring over 25 years of comprehensive experience in the SDLC/PLC, transitioning into product management leadership for the past decade. With a strong foundation in user-centred design, agile delivery, and deep-rooted commercial insights, I've led transformative digital initiatives across diverse sectors. My expertise spans coaching, mentoring, product management, data, and facilitating workshops, complemented by certifications in various agile frameworks and coaching methodologies. I've contributed significantly to enterprise agility, guiding teams through lean product management, fostering innovation, and implementing metrics-driven strategies for enhanced decision-making. My recent roles involved partnering with organisations, offering agile coaching, designing education programs, and steering cross-functional teams toward successful product deliveries. Passionate about refining product strategies, driving innovation, and orchestrating effective agile transformations, I've consistently excelled in nurturing high-performing teams and driving measurable outcomes.

Partner | Product and Flow(Kanban) Coach

Emergn

•	Working as a product leader for clients across the breadth of the product lifecycle, from Post-it notes to profit, with a particular focus on 'the fuzzy front end', building product strategies that deliver value early and often, and defining new and innovative products generated from insights delivered through emergent learning
•	Running innovation as a process for clients, with a mix of idea and growth sprints, facilitation of design studios and design sprints, defining and delivering user research to support Discovery, solution experimentation with prototypes in Alpha, and optimisation experimentation for growth in Live
•	Building capability through a mix of coaching, training and mentoring for product managers, delivery managers and agile teams with a mix of VFQ (Value-Flow-Quality), Design Thinking and Product Management and Thinking

Product Director & Business Agility Coach

Department for International Trade (DIT)

The Department for International Trade contracted three external teams (one of which I lead) to support the core ‘great.gov.uk’ team with marketing and communications around the UK Governments strong desire to both promote and offer advice to small and medium-sized business who are driven to becoming exporters. The team’s backlog was a mix of marketing campaign support (in the creation of campaign assets and websites, helping implement success measurement for the same), tactical work coming from the Government's strategic communications around leaving the European Union and the implementation of Google Analytics 360 and Google Tag Manager across the estate.

Senior Product Manager / Delivery Manager / Coach

Department for Education

The Department for Education was running a number of discovery projects on how they can reduce workload and increase retention of teachers, while still delivering better outcomes for children in education at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. I was contracted for twelve weeks as the delivery manager on one such cross-functional discovery team, looking specifically at the impact of creating a bank of curriculum materials and resources for teachers. The Discovery did not follow into an Alpha phase.

Digital Delivery Manager

Eurosport

Reporting to the VP ES Digital Products, I was part of a senior management team that was providing direction and leadership to multiple cross-functional agile product delivery teams. I was actively contributing to and setting target outcomes, reviewing outputs, feeding into the departmental strategy and driving a range of coaching initiatives with five upcoming product managers, UX and delivery teams.

Product Director

Barnardo's

I worked as the product lead on the delivery of a new CMS as part of the Digital Channels Transformation programme upon which Barnardo's were developing their new external facing website and "open" intranet. I worked with both internal and external teams to move to a flow-based product development process and was instrumental in the prioritisation of outcomes over outputs.

Lead Product Manager

The Department for Education was running a number of Discovery projects on how digital methods could lead to either an increase in the uptake of modern foreign languages (MFL) at GCSE or lead to a rise in the productivity of teachers teaching MFL in years 9, 10 and 11; I was the delivery manager of one such Discovery team.

Registers of Scotland

As CPO for the New Registers team, I was responsible for creating and holding the overall vision for a portfolio of 3 digital services that RoS was delivering in partnership with the Scottish Government. Working across two multidisciplinary teams and two sites (Edinburgh and Glasgow), I was responsible for all product decisions and delivery from discovery through to go-live and beyond.

Chief Product Officer

Ministry of Justice UK

As one of two coaches working in this Enterprise Agile transformation, I was coordinating Agile adoption across seven multi-disciplinary teams (engineers and designers / researchers) in 4 program work streams. I was directly involved with developing and delivering team and organisation training, coaching teams and stakeholders on Agile values, principles and practice, and promoting continuous improvement. I was championing cultural change and collaboration; I mentored teams on self-organisation, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency. I also facilitated workshops, retrospectives, planning sessions and kick-off events and introduced Lego Serious Play workshops into the program and MOJ Digital.

Agile & Product Coach

Partner at Thrivve • product leader, coach, mentor and ProKanban trainer • web3 geek • lifelong learner and a big believer in people. He/him 🇮🇪

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