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

Sally Sloley

• Helped lead agile transformations and agile coaching/training programs at a wide variety of clients: James Cook University, Australian Payments Plus, Macquarie Bank, CBA, Voly, Services Australia, Metcash, Foxtel , Qantas , AMP Capital , IAG , and Westpac.

⚫	Assisted leadership teams to develop and execute strategies that align with business goals.
⚫	Helped HR teams understand better ways of funding knowledge work.
⚫	Coached/Trained/Mentored teams in a variety of techniques that help them become autonomous, cross-functional, high-performing teams.
⚫	Train teams to use and learn from their metrics and use them to improve.
⚫	Help companies create company-wide alignment using lean agile visual management.
⚫	Helped teams significantly shorten cycle time as well as lead time for their downstream dependent teams.
⚫	Took many teams from being viewed as underperforming to being an example for others.

Agile Coach

⚫	Facilitated team workshops.
⚫	Mentored management and other stakeholders to work effectively with Scrum teams. 
⚫	Coached new Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
⚫	Facilitated training in Scrum, agile, lean, story mapping, prioritization, and Kanban.

Scrum Master

⚫	Led website design, project delivery, and production teams for a variety of departments in Microsoft: Microsoft Store, MSN, MSNBC, Microsoft.com, Kinect, Support Online, Events, MS Law, X-Box, DirectX, and WHDC.

Site Manager/Lead Producer

Agile Twist

⚫	Deliver training through Modus Institute:  Personal Kanban and Value Stream Mapping
⚫	Deliver training through Kanban University:  Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban System Design, and Kanban Systems Improvement
⚫	Deliver training through ICAgile:  Leading with Agility and Agility in HR
⚫	Non-certification courses and workshops:  Prioritization, Intro to Agile, Intro to Kanban, Scrum 101, Product Owner 101, Value Stream Mapping, Story Mapping, Customer Journey Mapping, Metrics, Agile in Leadership, and Team Kickoff.

Founder

Microsoft

⚫	Managed design and delivery of multiple websites within Microsoft.

Site Manager

⚫	Led a global team of support.microsoft.com regional managers and developers who successfully rolled out support online websites in 44 languages and locales.

Global Program Manager

I am an Agile Coach, specializing in lean agile visual management, currently headquartered in Sydney. I got my start at Microsoft, where I worked as a developer for over 20 years. My experience spans a variety of industries, from high-tech to telecom to financial to aviation. I am a co-founder of multiple Lean Coffee meetups and I enjoy organizing agile conferences like LAST and Kanban Australia, and I speak internationally.

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