Experience
20+ Years
From hands-on engineering to CTO & VP Product roles across Europe and Australia.
Services & Partnerships
Product & technology leadership, built for action
I help software organisations regain predictable delivery: clear strategy, stable architecture, empowered teams, and partner coverage to sustain it. The result is faster shipping, protected margins, and confidence in outcomes.
Scale
Startups to Scaleups
Re-organised Paessler's 100+ person engineering group into accountable product teams with clear responsibilities.
Trust
Symanto, Paessler, Ibis Flow
Known for joining complex situations, making them visible, and shipping progress quickly.
Where I Plug In
Services that stabilize delivery and unlock growth
Each engagement starts by making work visible: decisions, dependencies, and data clear to leadership and teams. From there we install the lightweight rituals, architecture boundaries, and partner coverage the organization needs.
Fractional CTO & VP Product
Interim or permanent leadership for product companies needing alignment between roadmap, architecture, and operating model.
Align executive, product, and engineering priorities with data boards can trust.
Reorganize teams around outcomes, as I did at Paessler and previously at Stay Informed, introducing product owners, scrum masters, and discovery practices.
Remove dependency bottlenecks so deployment speed, stability, and costs improve together.
Full CxO coverage & Recovery Teams
When a company faces crisis, you often need more than one role. I assemble proven operators across CEO, VP Sales, and compliance, plus reliable delivery partners.
Lead as acting CTO while trusted partners cover adjacent roles, giving the board a single accountable team.
Partner with pyraCode for engineering, QA, and DevOps - on-prem, cloud, manual, or automated.
Bring in Jürgen Thiel for executive, sales, and transformation leadership when business strategy must shift alongside technology.
Ideal when founders need a trusted bridge to the next wave of permanent leaders.
Agile operating model transformation
Transform project-led teams into empowered, cross-functional groups that set objectives, make decisions, and hold each other accountable.
Introduce shared language, lightweight governance, and metrics teams actually use.
Coach product, design, and engineering leaders to collaborate on outcomes instead of tickets.
Install rituals (RFCs, retros, demo cadence) that scale beyond a single hero team.
Demonstrated across two multi-team organisations that moved from monthly releases to weekly shipping.
Technology transformation & architecture
Modernize monoliths into domain-driven systems with clear APIs, shared services, and observable delivery.
Led modernization at Paessler, Stay Informed, and Symanto, each with different stacks and regulatory needs.
Define domain boundaries, target architectures, and pragmatic migration plans teams can actually execute.
Pair architecture with CI/CD, security, and cost controls so improvements stay in production.
Evidence: replatformed NLP products into a reusable platform at Symanto; carved domains out of legacy stacks at Stay Informed.
Architecture leadership across stacks & environments
Whether you're shipping regulated on-prem software, desktop power apps, or cloud-native services, I help teams design for change without losing speed.
Deep experience with SaaS, multi-tenant data, hybrid desktop, and infrastructure modernisation.
Coach teams on ADRs, fitness functions, and documentation that keeps architecture discoverable.
Tie architecture moves to customer outcomes so investment cases stay obvious to leadership.
Current focus areas: Ibis Flow (AI estimation, prioritisation, Story Studio), Alle Gewerke (Bavarian Bau Bid matching), and TenderHub (Australian tender discovery).
Data protection & information security that feels like progress, not paperwork
Stop guessing whether your customer data practices will survive audit. Get clear on breach protocols, cross-border transfers, and processing agreements before regulators ask.
Turn GDPR, DSFA, and VVT requirements into systems your teams can actually maintain (ISO 27001, ISMS, DSMS).
Know you're covered for vendor contracts, data flows, and international transfers (AVV, SCC, TIA).
Build confidence with leadership that compliance isn't blocking business - it's protecting it.
Proven at Stay Informed: practical, team-friendly approach to ISO 27001 and data protection management.
Proof in Practice
Transformations that stick
My work spans start-ups, scale-ups, and established software vendors. The constant: make the work visible, build confident teams, and modernise architecture so releases feel routine.
Paessler AG
Reorganised a 100+ person engineering org into clear product teams, introduced product owners and scrum masters, and started modernising the core product.
Result: stable releases, faster hiring ramp-up, and transparent portfolio planning.
Stay Informed GmbH
Shifted reactive delivery and unstructured planned to a reliable delivery cadence leveraging agile process, role accountability, and technology transformation.
Result: a leaner, faster and more reliably organisation that now plans their objectives and strategy across years, not releases.
Symanto GmbH
Took bespoke NLP project work and created a reusable platform to improve internal project efficiencies, time to conduct deep research on NLP/DP models, whilst creating a platform of growth and product exploration.
Result: Better ROI for project work and faster time-to-market for product ideas.
Partners that extend the offer
Proven specialists who extend capability
Each engagement can include trusted partners with deep expertise in engineering, commercial leadership, and compliance. Together we cover technology, go-to-market, and regulatory needs - without you having to assemble a new crew mid-crisis.
pyraCode
pyraCode finds great engineers, QA, and DevOps people fast and actively manages them. You get top engineering talent plus hands-on oversight, insights, and support throughout delivery.
Build or extend teams quickly without compromising on quality or fit.
Extend your capability across cloud, on-prem - whether development, security, automation or quality.
Jürgen Thiel
CEO and VP Sales with deep transformation experience. Jürgen ensures the commercial storyline evolves with the technology plan.
Executive coaching for founders and leadership teams.
Revenue planning, sales enablement, and board communication.
Dietmar Redetzky
Makes GDPR, ISO 27001, and data protection management practical and collaborative. Steered Stay Informed to certification with an approachable, interactive style.
Designs privacy and security frameworks that survive audit without slowing teams down.
Covers breach management, impact assessments, vendor agreements, and cross-border data flows.
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One team, zero guesswork
Need full coverage? We'll co-design the engagement so you know who owns what from day one, including risk, compliance, and customer communication touchpoints.
Ready to secure the outcomes your board expects?
Let's review your current state: dependencies, delivery, leadership coverage, or architecture. Within a week you'll have a clear, actionable plan.