Summary
Manfred Lange is a software architect and seasoned technology leader with 11+ years of focused experience delivering cloud-native, scalable SaaS platforms and guiding cross-functional teams across time zones. He blends hands-on engineering—still writing code and applying TDD—with strategic architecture work, having led migrations from monoliths to microfrontends, introduced infrastructure-as-code (CDKTF), event-driven systems, and DevSecOps practices. As a former CTO and principal consultant he has driven measurable transformations: automated CI/CD, tenant-aware identity (Keycloak), Open Policy Agent for fine-grained access control, and observability with OpenTelemetry. He excels at servant leadership, training teams in Agile and TDD, and embedding AI-assisted development to boost productivity. Based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Manfred’s pragmatic focus on incremental technical debt reduction and data-driven product improvements often yields real-time operational insights that change how customers and creators interact with products.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor with Honors Industrial Engineering, Bachelor with Honors Industrial Engineering at Hochschule Esslingen - University of Applied Sciences
English, German, French, Spanish