Summary
Tobias Schulz-hess is a Senior IT-Cloud Architect and hands-on engineering leader with 23+ years of experience building and scaling web applications, startups, and cloud architectures from Hamburg, Germany. He combines founder-level product instincts (co-founding and growing multiple startups) with proven people leadership—having managed teams from small engineering groups to 30 developers with exceptional retention. Technically fluent across backend, frontend, mobile and DevOps, he has architected systems managing millions of records and >1,000 devices, driven migrations, and raised engineering maturity through testing, observability, and DORA metrics. A pragmatic trouble-shooter and fast developer, he’s delivered revenue-generating products at XING and enterprise clients while introducing practices like API docs, ADRs, and company-wide security training. Notably, he runs his own company (dot knowledge) maintaining a licensed CMS used by SONY and others, reflecting both product and consulting depth. Tobias pairs entrepreneurial grit with an engineer’s precision, favoring scalable web systems and measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Abitur, Abitur at Clavius-Gymnasium, Bamberg
German, English