Bio

In a nutshell, I aim to enable people, solve problems and learn useful things.

After wearing various hats or whatever for 15 years, I learned to speak Product, Business, Design, Engineering, Data, Operations, Marketing, Finance etc. Obviously, I am not equally fluent to all of them but I can surely do more than keeping the conversation going.

I come from traditional engineering and stayed there for 7 years, switching gradually to the front-end side with an emphasis on UI/UX and absolute nerdiness for SASS and SaaS. I switched to product management during my first job in Germany for the UK branch of DeliveryHero. Until then, I mainly worked on 5-50 people's start-ups, mostly relative to energy, analytics, processes, user facing and reporting. Naturally, I freelanced here and there until I finally flanked my first startup attempt. Hoorah!

After 2 years in DH, our department was sold for £240m. At the time, I was new to product and wanted to get my hands dirty! I fulfilled my rookie duties at Humanoo. A Series-A B2B health company before it was cool... Meaning before Covid, but not by significantly much. Humanoo was also white-labeling its native apps to a major insurance company in Switzerland. I joined a great mixed group of young and intelligent people. It was extremely rejuvenating and I trust came naturally. Too bad management had other priorities. Otherwise, we were doing cool things and it was fun. We would all have stayed longer.

Next stop was at EdTech and my beloved Careerfoundry. I worked under an amazing boss/mentor/person, Megan. To her absolute credit, she taught me what means and takes to be a good manager, how to collaborate instead of just working with people and later how to help them grow. CF was kind of a dream job. Beyond all the cliches you except to hear, I love studying and learning things. From time to time, at least... MBA, strategy, facilitation, data, ai, design thinking, monetization, on top of soft skills, ways of working, leadership, management etc.

It may come by as bit cocky but I got quite good. Thanks to Megan and the people of CF, I found myself leading all the product teams, collaborating with every department and deep diving in topics from operations to retention and from core to marketing. That was fucking fun! On the way, I discovered that I enjoyed and cared to be good at mentoring and helping people think and learn. No matter how hippie it sounds, helping people solve problems and deep diving is rewarding to me.

After my 3rd year, I became curious about what else I could absorb from other environments and put into practice. Therefore, I moved to Neobanking and N26. I witnessed and learned a lot in that environment and collaborated with a few truly impressive people. My engineering manager was the best work-partner I ever had and was one of the main influences in constructing my counseling approach. Gracias G! Despite the above, we proved with N26 to be a shitty match for each other from day one, and eventually, we parted ways.

After so many years in tech and enough politics for a lifetime, I decided on a yearly break. Once my mind was rebooted, I found myself working on friends’ projects and then with their friends on different ideas and formats. Focusing on the user and the problem is what I do well. And so far, it has proven an energetic, chaotic, creative, intriguing and rewarding passion.

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