Florian Loretan is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building cloud-first engineering organisations and developer platforms across Europe. He has repeatedly transformed agencies into software companies, scaled engineering teams to 100+ technical roles, and driven devops migrations and quality monitoring initiatives. Comfortable both as a hands-on architect and a strategic executive, he has led hiring, coaching, and organizational change while keeping a developer-first mindset. Based in Munich, he combines a math and CS background with deep experience in open-source web technologies and a knack for turning consultancy practices into repeatable product engineering models. Notably, he balances his geek instincts with a people-first approach that consistently improves team outcomes and delivery.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Vienna
Swiss maturity certificate, Swiss maturity certificate at Ecole des Arches
Ecole Steiner de Lausanne
BA Mathematics and Computer Science, BA Mathematics and Computer Science at Earlham College
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