Alex Jäger is a seasoned technology executive with 13 years of leadership experience building and scaling digital products and engineering organizations from Cologne, Germany. As CEO of The Fittest GmbH and an experienced interim CTO for multiple fast-moving companies, he combines hands-on architectural insight with a proven track record of accelerating revenue and delivery through pragmatic processes like Scrum/Kanban and service decoupling. His background includes leading large-scale streaming and high-availability platforms, horizontal scaling to hundreds of millions of visits, and transforming teams to ship faster without sacrificing reliability. Alex pairs technical depth across backend, devops and product with people-first leadership—he also holds an NLP Master, hinting at a systematic interest in organizational behavior and communication.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
NLP Master, NLP Master at Die Denkweisen GmbH
Mediengestalter Print- / Digitalmedien, Mediengestalter Print- / Digitalmedien at Framfab Deutschland AG
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