Summary
Simon Sablowski is a seasoned leadership and agility coach with 12 years of experience helping organisations navigate change, scale product delivery, and build resilient teams across industries from automotive to finance. He transitioned from technical leadership roles—including CTO and Project CTO positions at Rocket Internet and Foodpanda where he led engineering organisations of 30–100 people—into coaching, bringing hands-on product and architecture experience to his advisory work. As an Agile Coach and Education Lead at agile42 he shaped large-scale change programs and learning initiatives—such as JTI’s 20,000-employee Agile Champion rollout—and has coached clients including Volkswagen, Siemens, the European Central Bank and SumUp. Now freelance in Berlin, he combines practical engineering savvy with a focus on innovation, creativity and collaboration to drive sustainable improvements in leadership, product strategy and team performance. Notably, his background founding and scaling startups gives him a rare blend of tactical delivery know-how and strategic change expertise that helps organisations turn ambition into measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer