Your scale-up has outgrown its data setup.

A consultant tells you what to do. I join your team, lead it, build with it, and take full responsibility for the results. You get a lot of senior experience for a limited time, usually enough to make a sustainable change, without paying to keep that level of experience on staff permanently. Sometimes I also take interim mandates full-time.

I work outcome-based, not by the hour. We agree up front on the results I will deliver, and my compensation is tied to them, so your risk stays low. I put in whatever time the work needs to deliver what I promised, and I am the one who judges that. I do not invoice days or hours, I deliver outcomes. We can of course agree on response times, regular meetings, and availability. So the real question is not how many days you buy, it is the value you get, and I make sure it is well worth the investment.

From experience, nine months is the sweet spot. I recommend three months for smaller projects focused on quick wins and immediate needs, and six to nine for deeper, longer-term work. Every situation is different, so the length is never set in stone and is always negotiable. I also offer advisory support to former clients, mostly to protect what we built together and keep it from drifting off track.

I build. I am an engineer at heart, and I also fix the processes around the engineering. I join your team, lead it, and stay very present. I do not build around your people, I work alongside them, teach them, and level them up, so we build it together and they can carry it forward.

If I have learned one thing over the years, it is that things usually go wrong not because of tools or technologies, but because of people and processes. So I focus on your real pains and business outcomes, not engineering for its own sake, and I go after the root cause. That said, I bring over two decades of experience across major technologies, clouds, and platforms, and I get up to speed quickly. At the level I work, concrete tools are rarely the blocker. People are far more complicated.

Yes, and it is very typical. A two-week assessment gives you a clear read on your current state, the quick wins you can fix right away, and a high-level direction for your future team and platform. If we run the assessment and then decide to work together, I credit half of its price to the engagement.

Whatever I build is meant to last, whether that is process, culture, or technology. The goal is not to make myself irreplaceable, it is the opposite: I measure my success by how autonomous your team is after I leave. Depending on your situation, we might hire or promote someone to take over, upskill an existing person, or build a team that runs without a dedicated head of data and reports into another function. It depends on your scale, your goals, and many other factors we work out together.

I am based in Berlin and prefer a remote-first setup with the team gathering in person from time to time, but it is all negotiable and I am happy to fit a hybrid way of working. My clients are mostly in Europe, the US, and the UK, and I am always curious to open up new geographies.