Raphael Bauer
Fractional & Interim CTO PE VC Tech Strategy & Due Diligence
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRaphael Bauer is a fractional and interim CTO with 14+ years of hands-on software and leadership experience who specializes in closing the gap between engineering and product to enable rapid, sustainable delivery. He advises PE/VC firms and scale-ups across publishing, e‑commerce and adtech—clients include Zalando, SpringerNature, Macmillan and Semrush—leading turnarounds, agile transformations and build-from-scratch in‑house IT capabilities. Equally comfortable in the weeds and at the board level, he combines a PhD-level technical background and an MBA with practical experience as a senior engineer, entrepreneur and certified AWS Solutions Architect. Raphael also leads the Ninja open-source framework (notable in TechEmpower benchmarks) and authors books on tech leadership, reflecting a rare blend of technical credibility and people-centered change management.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA International Business Administration, MBA International Business Administration at Royal Holloway, University of LondonPh.D. Dr. rer. nat. International Graduate School Genomics and Systems Biology of Molecular Networks / Computer Science, Ph.D. Dr. rer. nat. International Graduate School Genomics and Systems Biology of Molecular Networks / Computer Science at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor / Vordiplom Computer Science, Bachelor / Vordiplom Computer Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMaster / Diplom Computer Science, Master / Diplom Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
English, French, German
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Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
javas10
frameworkbenchmarks10
database-access10
java10
benchmarking9
benchmark9
performance-analysis8
performance-monitor8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Raphael contributed to the Ninja framework benchmarks, primarily focusing on the database-related functionalities. They made changes to the `HelloDbController` to include database access, and implemented unit tests. The user also worked on improving the database access, including implementing try-catch blocks. Further, they made changes to the test setups.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
r10r-org/sqlify
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
Sqlify - Java's most experimental SQL library
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 87 pushes in 4 years 9 months
mysqlsql-librarysqloraclesqlite
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