Tobias Mende
Co-Founder at Tech Unicorn Builders
Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Mende is a pragmatic software leader and serial founder with 13 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, automations, and developer productivity platforms from seed to scale. As co-founder of Tech Unicorn Builders and founder of EffizienzAgent and unblocked.engineering, he combines product-minded technical leadership with short-term, high-impact delivery—reducing lead times and delivering ROI within months. He’s driven measurable outcomes like 75% reduction in lead time for developer workflows and has deep experience refactoring monoliths into resilient services and adding async capabilities to performance-critical libraries (e.g., enhancing asynchronous operations in the BigQueue project). Tobias coaches CTOs and teams on lean practices, product discovery, and developer experience while mentoring junior engineers and founders. Based in Germany, he blends academic rigor (MSc Informatik) with a practical, remote-first approach and an unusual focus on making “what annoys you” automatable. Outside pure engineering he co-builds communities that fuse work and lifestyle, reflecting a founder who values flow as much as code.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatik at Universität zu Lübeck
German, English
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Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
multithreading10
async10
testing10
java10
javas10
data-structure9
data-structures9
shell6
macos6
zsh6
code-metrics6
iterm6
xcode6
tab-completion6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bulldog2011/bigqueue
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
A big, fast and persistent queue based on memory mapped file.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Tobias focused on enhancing the asynchronous capabilities of the bigqueue library. They implemented features related to asynchronous dequeue and peek operations, creating and refining futures to manage these actions. The commits included adding tests to ensure the correct functionality of the new asynchronous features, as well as fixing bugs and refining the interaction with the futures. The primary changes centered around modifying the core `BigQueueImpl` class and associated interfaces to support the new asynchronous operations, improving the overall usability and performance of the queue.
bigtablememoryqueuespersistent-queuecache
TobiasMende/alfred-audio-switcher
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Alfred Workflow for Quickly Switching Audio Input and Output Devices
Contributions:8 releases, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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