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Sara Brodin

Startup CTPO | Program Management | Angel Investor

Berlin Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Senior Technical Program Manager

    2024

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Expedite Ventures is a Business Angel group of CTOs and CPOs. We support tech founders hands-on with our know-how and capital.

2023 - 2024

  • CTO & Technical Co-Founder

    2023 - 2024

    After a successful funding round and building two MVPs I’m now handing off the scaling to our new CTO to pursue a role in an established company. Staying involved as an advisor.

2020 - 2022

  • Group CTO

    2020 - 2022

    Overseeing the Engineering and Product activities across the Talenthouse group, active within the Creator Economy industry. Department size: 50. Company size: 170 In 2021 I supported a successful sales process of EyeEm and early 2022 we took Talenthouse live on the Swiss stock exchange.

2018 - 2020

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2018 - 2020

    Keywords: Fintech, Refinancing, AWS, Terraform, Open Banking, Metabase, IT-audits, Node.js - member of management team and Einzelprokuristin - hiring manager for ENG & BI - evolving the architecture to support more traffic, more developers - hands-on AWS, Terraform & a bit of Node.js - mentoring Jr-Snr developers & POs - TÜV certified product Co-owned by Berliner Volksbank & Bridge maker. Exited into 100% bank ownership and lives on as an internally used SaaS refinancing product focused on the VB ecosystem. Scope: 3 applications, 20+ micro-services, event sourcing, infrastructure as code

2017 - 2018

  • Early stage CTO

    2017 - 2018

    Hands-on role building a MVP from idea to launch Keywords: Ecommerce, Node.js, React, Postgres, Auth0, Payment Service Providers, Heroku, AWS - Payment provider evaluation and integration - Designing initial technology stack - Guiding freelancers on project basis Released on May 18

2017 - 2018

  • Senior Technical Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Joined a B2B stealth-venture from idea to delivered MVP. Leading all Product activities and preparing an on-site/cloud IT-audit from a german bank.

2015 - 2017

  • Senior Technical Product Manager

    2015 - 2017

    PO of two teams, a cloud Infrastructure team and a full-stack product team. In addition, strategic and cross-team responsibilities working closely together with the CTO and Head of Product. Coordinating tech leads and stakeholder management on the largest internal project in Babbel history. Keywords: AWS, Micro Services, Technical Debt, data, enabling engineers, increased awareness and sense of purpose

2011 - 2015

  • Tactical Product Owner

    2014 - 2015

    As Tactical Product Owner in TomTom's Scaled Agile Framework, I owned the backlog of the scrum team responsible for the instruction engine used in all core TomTom navigation products. Started initiative to hire a UX designer to bridge the gap between technology and the end user. SAFE agile framework, part of project including 12 teams from 4 countries located on 2 continents

  • Algorithm Engineer

    2011 - 2013

    Working as a C++ developer in a team who is responsible for developing core components like the routing engine and the instruction engine. In addition to my developer duties, for 6 months I also served as the scrum master for a team of 8 people.

2010 - 2011

  • Software Engineer

    2010 - 2011

    Developed firmware and emulators in C for Video Processor Units (VPU). Focused on the VC-1 standard. Also, worked with developing a C++ bit-exact model of their new Mali GPU.