Stephan Schmidt
CTO Coach & Engineering Leadership Coach at Amazing CTO
Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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Top SchoolStephan Schmidt is a seasoned CTO coach and engineering leader with 25+ years of hands-on technical and executive experience, who has coached 80+ CTOs and founders across Europe and worldwide. He specialises in scaling startups and scaleups (5–150+ engineers), turning chaotic growth, technical debt and org misalignment into stable, high-velocity organisations. A three-time founder and former CTO at companies acquired by eBay, he blends deep technical credibility (daily coding background) with practical experience in M&A, DevOps, data migrations and product-led exits. Stephan runs the Amazing CTO Program—1:1, problem-first coaching that pairs consulting, mentoring, coaching and personal branding—to help leaders bridge the gap between engineering reality and executive expectations. Based in Stralsund, Germany, he’s known for pragmatic storytelling to boards, stabilising sinking platforms, and for treating leadership isolation as a solvable operational risk rather than a personal failing.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatiker (MSc equivalent), Computer Science, Diplom Informatiker (MSc equivalent), Computer Science at Ulm University
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Github Skills (159)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sveseme/taghiro
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Tag types for Typescript
Contributions:90 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 11 months
typescripttypescript-definitionsguardmeta-tags
inkmi/erro
Feb 2023 - May 2024
Reduce debugging time while programming Go. Use static and stack-trace analysis to determine which func call causes the error.
Contributions:9 releases, 96 pushes, 19 tags in 1 year 3 months
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