Summary
Simon Chrzanowski is a seasoned backend leader with 12 years of professional experience and a decade-plus career spanning startups and scale-ups across Berlin and Germany. As Teamlead Backend at Quentic since 2018, he combines hands-on system design with people leadership, having previously served as CTO and Head of Development at fast-moving healthcare and ecommerce companies. His background ranges from early system administration and webmaster roles to senior backend engineering at social and commerce platforms, giving him deep operational knowledge of building reliable production services. Simon is pragmatic about trade-offs, favoring maintainable architectures that accelerate delivery while reducing risk. Colleagues know him for translating product needs into clear technical roadmaps and for stepping in to solve knotty backend problems himself. He brings an entrepreneurial mindset shaped by repeated CTO responsibilities and long-term ownership of complex codebases.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer