Summary
Sara Brodin is a Senior Technical Program Manager and former startup CTO with 11 years of experience translating engineering, product and business strategy into cross-organizational delivery at scale. Based in Berlin, she has led engineering and product teams across fintech, creator economy and mapping domains—running technical due diligence for bank audits, hiring and mentoring teams, and shipping multiple MVPs after securing funding. She combines hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform), microservices and event sourcing with product-first instincts honed as a Co-Founder and Group CTO who took a company public. As an angel investor with a network of CTOs and CPOs, she advises founders on go-to-market and technical execution while keeping an investor’s lens on product viability. Notably, she has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership roles, staying technically capable while scaling orgs to 50+ engineers.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc Computer Science and Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Erasmus Informatik, Erasmus Informatik at Technische Universität Berlin
Psychology, Psychology at Lund University
Swedish, English, German, japanese (n5 passed)