Summary
André Schade is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of senior experience building cloud-native platforms, driving AI initiatives, and scaling engineering organizations. He currently shapes technology strategy and execution at MASSIVE ART after a sabbatical focused on AI, graph data, and startup advisory. André has a track record of accelerating delivery (notably boosting speed ~50% at iApps) while cutting errors and costs through architecture and DevOps modernization. He combines hands-on platform architecture skills (Java, Node.js, GraphQL, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP) with a talent for cultural change and developer enablement. Comfortable aligning product, business and engineering, he often moves teams from feature-centric to product-led delivery. A background spanning embedded electronics, biochemistry and long-term full‑stack work gives him an uncommon systems-minded perspective on complex technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Biochemie, Biochemie at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik at Technische Universität Ilmenau
Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, Elektrotechnik und Elektronik at Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
English, German