Technology leadership on demand · Hamburg
Fractional CTO. AI transformation. Cloud‑native architecture.
Hands‑on when it counts.
For managing directors, founders, and IT leaders of software organizations and IT departments with 20 to 150 engineers who want to ship faster without piling up technical debt.
Services
A technology strategy that fits your business model, and a team that carries on without me.
Strategy, architecture decisions, org design, and team building. One to three days a week, typically over six to twelve months. I build the foundation, enable the team, and hand over.
Teams that use AI productively day to day instead of debating it, with clear guardrails for data protection and quality.
AI-assisted engineering across the development process, automated workflows, the right tooling environment, and your own AI applications built on your data. I work this way myself, every day, with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
A cloud bill you can explain, and a platform your teams ship on independently.
Serverless platforms, a clean account structure as the foundation, modernization of legacy systems, and cost transparency down to individual products. AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
A written basis for the decision, with reasoning and alternatives that hold up in front of your board.
A sounding board for hard technology decisions: architecture reviews, technical due diligence, modernization plans. And when it counts, I build alongside the team.
Getting started
A three-day assessment. Fixed scope, fixed price, written result. Then you decide, with no strings attached, whether and how to continue.
Conversations with your team, a look at architecture, code, cloud spend, and processes.
Where you lose time, money, and stability, and what actually causes it.
A written assessment with prioritized recommendations, effort estimates, and a clear statement on what to tackle first.
How I work
You get someone with decades in software engineering, many of them in leadership. Someone who understands strategy and product and translates both into working software.
I take AI seriously without promising you more than it can deliver. You hear what matters early and openly, even when it is uncomfortable. Assumptions get challenged, solutions stay simple. What remains once I leave is an organization that stands stronger and more resilient than before.
Tobias Hutzler · Engineering Leader, AI Pioneer, Builder. Hamburg, Germany.
Contact
30 minutes, free and without obligation: you describe your situation, I tell you honestly whether and how I can help.