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About the role
What they lead
A freelance Chief Technology Officer sets the technology direction and keeps delivery tied to business goals. They define the roadmap, review architecture, guide engineering teams, and make sure product, security, and operations stay aligned. In Munich, they are often brought in by software companies, industrial tech firms, and funded scaleups that need senior technical leadership without a permanent hire.
Typical work
- Technology strategy and roadmap planning
- Architecture reviews for web, mobile, cloud, and data platforms
- Team leadership for developers, engineers, and architects
- Hiring support, mentoring, and structure for engineering teams
- Vendor and tool selection
- Risk management around security, reliability, and technical debt
Where they add value
Companies bring in a CTO freelancer when they need to stabilize a product, prepare for growth, or replace a missing technical decision-maker. They are useful during new platform builds, cloud migrations, fundraising rounds, carve-outs, and restructuring. A strong Chief Technology Officer can work hands-on with senior engineers while also communicating clearly with founders, product leads, and investors.
Core skills
The role needs broad technical judgment, not just deep coding knowledge. Strong professionals understand software architecture, delivery processes, cybersecurity basics, data flows, and team dynamics. Common tool areas include AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and modern observability stacks. Depending on the company, they may also cover SaaS, APIs, ERP integrations, AI features, or industrial software.
What strong CTOs do differently
- Make trade-offs visible and practical
- Turn vague problems into clear delivery plans
- Reduce complexity instead of adding process
- Speak to engineers and executives in plain language
- Keep systems stable while still moving fast
Why Munich teams hire freelance
Munich companies often need flexible senior leadership for products built across office and remote teams. A freelance CTO can join on-site for workshops, board meetings, or team reset phases, then stay remote for ongoing guidance. For many organizations, this is the fastest way to get experienced technical leadership in Germany without slowing down hiring or overcommitting to a permanent structure.
Meet FRATCH Chief Technology Officers
Dr Dominik Faust
Interim Change Leadership Professional
Last position:
Interim COO at Kath. Medienhaus
Key Results & Impact:
- Developed digital business models, designed a corporate newsroom, merged units (supported by PMI), and established a cooperative company culture.
- Kept personnel costs at a constant level, even achieving a slight decrease despite collective wage increases; delivered sustainable cost reductions while increasing revenue.
- Doubled online reach for this segment of Germany’s second-largest employer.
Leadership Qualities:
- Led a span of control of over 70 employees, with 8 direct reports and P&L responsibility of over €6 million.
- Rated as entrepreneurial, strategic, decisive, motivating, and highly effective in change processes.
Alexandre Savio
Cloud Engineer
Last position:
Cloud Engineer at Dectris AG
- Build a scalable multi-region backend service in AWS to serve remote desktop virtual machines for scientific analysis
- Stack: AWS, GitHub, Terraform, Python, Rust
- Built and defined the core infrastructure of the backend system
- Defined and coded the virtual machines provisioning supporting Ubuntu and Rocky Linux desktop setups
- Programmed the API service running in ECS to manage virtual machines and build custom Docker images for users
Damian Śniatecki
CTO
Last position:
CTO at FRATCH.IO
- Managed end-to-end product development, overseeing the successful delivery of technical solutions.
- Led and mentored a team of highly specialised technical professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Oversaw the hiring process to build a talented and dedicated team.
- Built a scalable and robust backend microservices system from scratch, designing and extending it to meet evolving business needs.
- Ensured the system's high availability with a 99.99% up time, implementing resilient architecture and monitoring mechanisms.
- Developed and implemented technical strategies, aligning them with business goals and objectives.
Pavlo Voznenko
(Group) CTO
Last position:
(Group) CTO at Seven.One Entertainment Group
Successfully restructured ProSiebenSat.1 Digital and merged with Seven.One Entertainment Group to enable Digital Consumer Products strategy for 6k+ employees across DACH.
Acquired JOYN streaming platform (4M unique users) from Warner Bros. Discovery and managed integration of 160+ people while maintaining efficiency.
Pivoted to a platform organisation with a capped annual budget of EUR -100M, decreasing time-to-market and enabling product testing within 3 months, avoiding significant upfront investment.
Focus on reusability and modular components generated new mid-digit multimillion revenue through Live Interactive shows (EUR 2.5M project budget, 7 months of development).
Built from scratch and went live with a new publishing business for Digital News and Sports within 6 months, enabling 250+ editors with multi-tenancy support.
New tech stack product achieved +66% YoY unique monthly active users and +60% YoY time spent per day (>2h).
Christoph Neumann
Interim CTO eCommerce
Last position:
Technical Advisor at Leximate
- Set up AI-first Legal-Tech platform using latest LLM models and agentic development workflows.
- Launched MVP in under 5 days from idea to code.
- Setup AI-first development workflows "from call to shipped feature".
Andrew Edem
CTO / Co-founder
Last position:
CTO / Co-founder at Roket Finance
- Built and delivered platform for initial customers, business data simulations, AI agents, hands-on from zero
- Worked closely with co-founders and design partners to build first versions of app
- Tech stack: React, Node.JS/TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, GCP, Gemini, PostgreSQL, Cursor, Langfuse
Martin Musiol
Product Owner AI Learning Platform
Last position:
Product Owner AI Learning Platform at B2B Tech Scale-Up
- Agile setup of a multimodal analysis platform for training materials (video, audio, documents) using Scrum
- Extraction of context-relevant content based on user profiles & competency dimensions
- Personalized delivery of learning content to boost sales performance
- Close coordination with sales teams & stakeholders to validate features
- Use of Gemini, Whisper, Python & JavaScript, deployment on AWS, Perl for scripting data imports
- Integration into existing tools & CRM systems for smooth adoption
- Technologies used: Python, OpenAI, DB tech like PostgreSQL, CI/CD for Airflow DAGs, FastAPI
Dennis Brenndoerfer
Interim CTO
Last position:
Interim CTO at Automotive supplier
- Responsible for setting up an independent IT department as part of an IT carve-out across four legal entities in DE/UK/China
- Creating an IT requirements specification and tendering IT service contracts
- Setting up an IT digitalization project (migrating the company to Cloud M365 including MS Teams, telephony and SharePoint)
- Establishing IT operations according to ITIL and ensuring stable IT infrastructure operations
- Implementing cost efficiency measures
Jens Dörholt
CTO
Last position:
CTO at AlphaFlare UG
- Configurators, solution architect, VR applications.
- Created projects from POCs up to lighthouse projects for the automotive industry, such as the Car Creator based on UEFN for BMW and Epic Games.
- Developed the configurator for the Maybach Atelier in Shanghai.
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Chief Technology Officers statistics
Typical experience
19 years
Average project duration
3.4 years
Certifications per freelancer
1
Top business areas
Product Development, Information Technology, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Most common languages
German, English, Polish
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
75%
Doctorate
25%
Salary / Daily Rate Distribution
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A Chief Technology Officer sets the technical direction and makes sure the company’s product and engineering work support the business plan. They shape architecture, lead technical priorities, and help teams deliver in a controlled way. In many projects, they also coach engineers and act as the link between founders, product, and operations.
A freelance CTO makes sense when you need senior leadership quickly, but not necessarily a permanent executive. This is common during a product rebuild, a growth phase, a cloud migration, or after a technical founder steps back. It is also useful when the team needs outside perspective on structure, quality, or scaling.
A CTO usually owns the broader technology strategy, including architecture, platform choices, innovation, and long-term technical direction. A VP Engineering or Head of Engineering often focuses more on delivery, people management, and execution inside the engineering organization. In smaller companies, these titles can overlap, but the CTO is typically the most strategic of the three.
Look for strong architecture judgment, clear communication, and experience leading teams through change. A good candidate should understand cloud infrastructure, software delivery, security, and product trade-offs. They should also be able to step into messy situations, make decisions, and explain them in simple terms.
Many engagements work well with a remote-first setup, especially for strategy, architecture reviews, and leadership sparring. On-site time in Munich can help at the start of an engagement, during workshops, or when a team needs close alignment. The best setup depends on how much hands-on coordination the company needs.
In Munich, a freelance Chief Technology Officer is often brought in for SaaS scaleups, B2B software teams, and industrial or mobility-related products. Typical projects include platform redesign, engineering setup, data and cloud architecture, and preparing a team for growth or investment. German and English communication are both common in these settings.
Focus on the quality of their decisions, not just their title. Strong candidates can explain how they handled trade-offs, reduced risk, and improved delivery in past work. Ask how they would assess your current stack, where they would start, and how they would work with your existing engineers.
A freelance CTO is usually expected to bring structure quickly, identify the main risks, and create momentum without taking over every technical detail. The role often combines advisory work with hands-on leadership, depending on the company’s maturity. Good freelancers should be ready to work with founders, product leads, and senior engineers in a very practical way.
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