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

Reliably

Reliably is a platform to help organisations turn reliability into a conscious activity that reduces engineers anxiety while supporting the business need for innovation and users happiness.

Reliability is not just about the availability of your systems, it's acknowledging the deep connection between users and engineers and the impact on the business when this connection is healthy and positive.

At Reliably, we deeply care for engineers being able to deliver the best outcome they can to their users. An organisation which doesn't proactively work on reliability cannot have a positive effect on either.

CTO / CEO

Atomist

Atomist, startup founded by Rod Johnson, is the automation API for software to help you deliver faster software. As a senior software & system engineer, I worked with my team mates with a strong devops culture to make Atomist a success. 

Within the team, I specialized in our platform needs by maintaining our Kubernetes clusters in our AWS environment. To help the team understand our systems, I setup monitoring and logging solutions (DataDog and Logz.io respectively). Both became essentials aspects of learning and adapting at Atomist.

I also worked closely with the team on the product effort by designing and delivering features on the backend services as well as the Atomist open source projects.

Senior Software & System Engineer

Simplicity Itself

As part of the Simplicity Itself brilliant team, we are designing the next generation event-based microservices in cloud oriented ecosystems.

Microservices and cloud-native lead architect

Envivio

From October 2014 to December 2015, I have focused my attention on running Envivio products within Docker containers on the OpenStack platform, orchestrating them with the Apache Mesos/Marathon framework. I started from scratch and completed a demo of the video delivery products, demonstrating the capabilities of service orchestration to support linear and non-linear scenarios (upgrades, rollbacks, scalability, elasticity...).

I trained myself on Docker, made recommendations to adapt products to microservices and containers, trained people on Docker, automated the deployment of a full demo on OpenStack. I also introduced the teams to service discovery using Consul as well as Weave to support the network requirements.

Before that, until October 2014, I was responsible for the design, development and delivery of tools to support testing requirements of various teams. Initially, I provided solutions to help teams being more efficient on their automated testing tasks (functional, integration and quality) before becoming, during fall 2013, scrum master of a small team of four that implemented most testing tool requirements at Envivio. During that period, I kept on developping on the tools while making sure the rest of the team got up to speed with the design and best practices I had originally setup.

Those tasks required that I understood Envivio's products, their usage, environment and scenarios. As I supported teams at different stage of the delivery process, from developers to QA and ecosystem testers, I had to adapt my mindset to various requirements and constraints while providing as much continuity as possible in the tools in order to reduce the overlap between each phase and offer visibility to managers and users of the tools.

Senior Software Engineer

GFI Informatique

As part of the Envivio engineering teams, I'm responsible for defining the functional testing strategy as well federate teams around a common testing path in order to improve the product's delivery. The first step has been to set up tools to provide a unified ground for all the teams to speak a common language. In this case, we've settled for Robot Framework, a generic automation testing framework as well as Jenkins for continuous integration.

Software Testing Consultant at Envivio

Freelance

Focused on participating to the OpenData movement to show its real added value for citizen and businesses. I've notably created the Urbanility service (http://urbanility.com/) in order to empower people to discover their urban environment using OpenData freed by Rennes.

OpenData enthusiast

Ubikod

Senior developer designing, planning, implementing, testing and delivering an IT operation architecture for a event logging, storing and statistical analysis platform.

Implementation based on XMPP and AMQP and developed in Java, Python and erlang.

Senior Software Developer

Ipsis

Python web developer (Django web framework).

Software Engineer

3rdandUrban

Lead Developer for the 3rdandUrban projects such as amp.fm and the LLUP protocol. (Python and .NET) The amp.fm project aimed at providing a platform to unsigned artists to promote and create revenur from their craft in a way where they could keep control of their content through CC licenses.

Lead Developer

Tesnet Group Ltd

Lead Performance Tester for Marks & Spencer using Mercury LoadRunner & Performance Center products. Within a team of five members, I was responsible for projects the team leader would assign to me from start to finish. Tasks would go from meeting the customers, gathering information, understanding the environment in which the application would be used, its constraints and the objective set by the customer. Then, devise a load test scenario, define risks and mitigation for them. Finally, after approval, write scripts using Load Runner, then Performance Center, executed with the appropriate parameters and environment. A great experience which helped realize how much testing was a challenging task, both technically and from a communication's perspective.

Lead Performance Test Consultant

Creative and strategic technical leader with 25+ years in software engineering and open-source innovation. I grew into a senior engineer with over 15 years of experience at international startups and large organizations before co-founding and leading my own venture.

I believe strong leadership is a balance of empathy and decisiveness, where inclusive teams thrive under clear direction. I find purpose in building the future alongside great talents.

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