Summary
Tom Scheduikat is a senior software consultant, UX designer, and interim CTO with 12 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and leading engineering teams. He co-founded and scaled advocado from a 4-person startup to a 50+ headcount company, where he built the core CRM and REST API and led migrations such as integer IDs to UUIDs. Now a full-time freelancer since 2021, he has delivered multiple MVPs and enterprise-focused projects—from employee relocation apps to hospital hygiene tracking—using PHP (Symfony, Laravel), Node.js, Vue/Nuxt and modern backend services. With formal UX certification and an applied informatics background, he blends product-focused design with backend architecture to improve developer workflows and customer-facing systems. He’s curious about Web3 and blockchain, experiments with Supabase/Strapi/Firebase in production stacks, and frequently steps into interim CTO roles to stabilize and modernize teams. Based in Stralsund, Germany, he combines startup grit with consultancy discipline to turn ambiguous requirements into shipped, maintainable software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Angewandte Informatik, Angewandte Informatik at Hochschule Stralsund
Certified UX & Usability Specialist, Certified UX & Usability Specialist at XDi
Fachinformatiker, Anwendungsentwicklung, Fachinformatiker, Anwendungsentwicklung at IT College Putbus