Summary
Jan Riethmayer is a veteran software leader and four-time founder with 16 years of experience building product-first engineering organizations from zero to scale, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Earlybird Venture Capital. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (TS, Go, Ruby, Python, Elixir) with cloud-native architecture—Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP—and has led teams of 60+ while shipping first products himself. Jan co-founded Zencargo, grew bonusbox to 4M users, and twice prepared Series B engineering data rooms, demonstrating both operational rigour and investor-readiness. He excels at turning ambiguous, data-rich problems into production data platforms (EagleEye) and has a track record of embedding AI and MLOps into product workflows. Known for fast learning and execution under uncertainty, he also coaches CTOs and takes fractional CTO roles, bringing a people-first culture that scales technical teams sustainably.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Universität Berlin
Designing and building AI Products and Services Artificial Intelligence, Designing and building AI Products and Services Artificial Intelligence at MIT xPRO
English, German