B D. Bold🇩🇪

About B D. Bold

CTO at HeyJobs

My passion is delivering impactful software products and building high-performing teams and individuals. I am an experienced tech leader and CTO, productivity enthusiast, biohacker and mindful leader, husband and father of 2 kids. My focus is on leading a balanced, happy, sustainable life while enjoying creating purposeful products and services in the fast-paced, exciting and ever evolving tech industry - as well as trying to enable others to do the same. 25+ years experience in the software industry spanning a multitude of technologies, methodologies, industries and countries leading teams from 5 to 200+ FTEs: 12 years working in technology consulting & delivery with large multi-national companies 10 years working in technology startups & scaleups, 5 years running my own small tech startup while still studying As CTO of Heyjobs, we are solving the western worlds talent shortage at scale through the help of technology. As CTO of Seven Senders, I helped to build the leading delivery platform to ship parcels in Europe. As CTO of Babbel, I helped the company scale from a promising startup with 100 people in Berlin to becoming one of the most successful european tech startups with more than 500 people in Berlin and New York. As Senior manager at Accenture Technology Consulting , I focused on building and enabling software delivery teams based on various technologies and methodologies and leading the successful delivery of large and complex software products for clients in travel & logistics, automotive, retail and insurance sectors. Leading distributed delivery teams of up to 200 FTEs with various locations in the Philippines, India and eastern europe. As Accenture certified Deal Solution Architect I was responsible for business development, technical sales, contract and bid management and negotiations - winning several multi-million deals. As Accenture certified Delivery Lead, I was responsible for technical account management and successful delivery of double digit million projects as well as generated revenue, margin and client satisfaction. Together with a few friends, I founded a small startup in the early nineties focused von consumer music software. We successfully launched several products internationally (germany, netherlands, japan) first as boxed software, later online. Disrupted several music hardware categories with software equivalents (hardware synthesizer, mixer&turntables). Our startup was aqui-hired by Berlin based Native Instruments in early 2000s and laid the foundation for the defining digital DJ software "Traktor".

My Mentoring Topics Mindful Tech Leadership Personal and Team Productivity Sustainable Engineering Practices Product Engineering and Operations Software Engineering Leadership Scaling Startups - experience in Series A,B,C Technology Strategy & Innovation Engineering Practices (Technical Debt Mgmt, Continious Delivery, TDD, Cloud Infrastructure etc.) Agile and Lean Methods (incl. Scrum, Kanban) Team Building & Training Product Management Project and Program Management Systems Integration incl. Supplier Selection Near- and Offshoring Supplier and Vendor Management Technical Account Management Deal and Bid Management Technical Due Diligence Architecture Management and Evolution Growing and leading Data & AI teams Platform Engineering including Security & Cloud Infrastructure Biohacking Personal Growth & Self Mastery

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Sessions with B D. Bold

• Mentorship Session (30 min): Mentorship session