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Bits & Pretzels 2026 · 28–30 September · ICM Munich

Hire the technical leadership before you hire the team.

You have funding, a roadmap, and nobody senior who owns the technology. CTO as a Service puts an experienced technology executive inside your leadership team — strategy, architecture, hiring and delivery — without a full-time hire. I am in Munich for all three days.

I reply between sessions — usually within the hour during the event.

The offer

CTO as a Service

Embed a seasoned technology executive into your leadership team without the burn of a full-time hire. We set technical strategy, hire and mentor engineering teams, run board-level reviews, and own the roadmap from architecture to delivery.

  • Technical due diligence for fundraising and M&A
  • Architecture, hiring plan, and 12-month roadmap
  • Vendor and contract negotiation on your behalf
  • Quarterly board reporting in investor-ready format
The evidence

One client, four systems, three years.

The fastest way to judge a fractional CTO is the delivery record. We have been Kekz’s engineering partner since 2023 — four workstreams spanning firmware, cloud, logistics and finance, each one still running.

Kekz·2023 — present

Kekz connected headphones platform

End-to-end engineering partner

Kekz ships audio headphones for children paired with a plush storytelling bear. We built the device-management platform that pairs the hardware to the customer, provisions audio content, handles OTA firmware updates, and powers the parent-facing companion experience.

Kekz·2024 — present

Offline-to-online connectivity device

Hardware + firmware partner

A small Wi-Fi bridge that gives legacy offline Kekz devices an online presence — for analytics, content sync, and remote parental controls. We designed the firmware, provisioning flow, and the cloud-side device registry, with packaging designed for non-technical parents to install at the kitchen table.

Kekz·2023 — present

Order distribution & delivery management

Product & platform engineering

A logistics control plane that takes thousands of weekly Shopify orders, routes them across European 3PLs based on SLA and stock location, and gives operations a single console for exceptions. This work eventually became the seed of our Operations Manager product.

Kekz·2024 — present

Comprehensive ERP & financial controls

Solutions architecture + delivery

A bespoke ERP and financial controls layer that consolidates orders, costs, taxes, and supplier payments into one source of truth — replacing a patchwork of spreadsheets and third-party tools that no longer scaled with the business.

We also build and operate our own products — the same standard, applied to our own P&L instead of a client’s. They are not the pitch today, but they are the evidence that we ship.

See the product portfolio
Who I want to meet

Three conversations worth having.

Three days, a lot of conversations. These are the three I am hoping to have.

Founders and scale-ups

You have funding and a roadmap but no senior technical owner. We talk about what your first 90 days of technical leadership should produce.

Commercial partners

Agencies, consultancies and ERP or platform partners with clients who need delivery capacity. We talk about referral and white-label arrangements.

Operators with a system problem

Orders, logistics, ERP or internal tooling that has outgrown its spreadsheet. We talk about what it would take to fix it properly.

Three days in Munich.

Send a message and we will find twenty minutes — at the ICM, or over a Maß afterwards.

Bits & Pretzels 2026 — CTO as a Service in Munich · Amazonia Tech