CTO & Leadership
- Engineering org design
- Tech strategy & architecture
- Hiring & team scaling
- Stakeholder & board alignment
- Project & program management
CTO focused on AI, Automation and ScalingBuilding software and teams that ship.
Building software and teams that ship.
Engineering leadership for the AI era.
I’m Tom. As a CTO, I help companies become AI-native by transforming products, operations and teams with AI and agentic systems — accelerating execution and scalability across the business — backed by 20+ years of hands-on full-stack engineering experience across startups, enterprises and various industries.
01 — About
Strategy that compiles, outcomes that ship.
20+years of experience
I'm a Chief Technology Officer with a deep full-stack background and more than 20 years of hands-on experience — across both startups and enterprises, from the early web through cloud-native platforms to today's agentic AI systems.
I help leadership teams turn AI from a buzzword into a working operating model — embedding Agentic AI across their entire operations to accelerate the business, and shaping the architecture, processes and culture that make it stick.
Name
Tom Giessel
Location
Berlin · Remote
Languages
German · English
02 — Expertise
What I bring to the table.
AI & Agentic Systems
- Agentic AI strategy
- Agentic Operating Model
- Automation across the SDLC
- Scaling teams with AI
- From PoC to production
Delivery & Process
- Discovery → delivery cycles
- Roadmapping & OKRs
- Agile, Lean & Shape Up
- Cross-functional facilitation
- Vendor & partner management
Engineering
- System architecture
- Front-end & back-end
- API design
- Database design
- DevOps & cloud
- CI & CD
03 — Selected clients