Summary
Holger Reinhardt is a hands-on CTO and technical architect with over 25 years of software development experience and more than a decade leading technology strategy, product delivery, and engineering teams across enterprises and fast-growing startups. He combines an MBA in Global Business and Entrepreneurship with deep technical pedigree—driving cloud-native migrations, serverless microservices, AI strategy and data platforms at companies from Haufe to Ingentis and CANEI. Known for turning fragmented data estates into reliable, scalable platforms, he has delivered measurable ROI (for example, a 50% pre-sales efficiency gain through AI adoption) while building high-performance, globally distributed engineering teams. Comfortable with both board-level due diligence and hands-on architecture, he also consults as a fractional CTO and has led fintech and SaaS product builds on AWS and Azure. Based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, Holger blends pragmatic engineering with commercial insight, often surfacing governance and open-source strategies that accelerate innovation without sacrificing compliance.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Global Business and Entrepreneurship, MBA Global Business and Entrepreneurship at University of Louisville - College of Business
Dipl-Inf. Computer Science Electronics, Dipl-Inf. Computer Science Electronics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
English, German, Russian