Jochen Kressin

I am a CTO, IT architect and team lead with over 18+ years of work experience. I possess deep knowledge in specifying, developing, deploying and operating high traffic, customer-facing sites and as a result, am accustomed to leading multi-national teams of up to 30 developers, including software development, quality assurance and business operations.

My years of in-depth technical work experience, as well as my ability to lead fully bootstrapped companies into the multi-million dollar range, is a testament to my ability to take companies to the next level. Throughout my career I’ve had to manage technical and commercial aspects of the IT business, working closely together with other business departments and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions from the inception of a MVP all the way to the roll-out of the final iteration of a product. I am also responsible for budgeting, project staffing and implementation schedules.

Those I oversee would describe my management style as cooperative, as I like giving my team enough freedom to put their ideas into practice, while at the same time ensuring that they comply with the overarching architecture and strategic objectives set forth by the company.

My technological background is deeply rooted in distributed systems, high-performance Java/JEE applications based on Open Source software (OSS), Big Data and search engine technologies. I have extensive experience with highly scalable systems running on several hundreds of servers across multiple data centers.

My degree in Computer Science from FH Offenburg as well as my MBA from the University Potsdam has allowed me to construct both a technological and business worldview of the IT industry. My passion lies in new disruptive business models that have the ability to reshape and improve the digital economy.