About Me
Experienced CTO and full stack developer with a passion for building scalable solutions.
I'm Timo Behrens, a Fractional CTO and Full Stack Developer based in Berlin, Germany. With over 10 years of experience in building startups, I specialize in helping companies scale their technical operations, develop MVPs, and implement robust engineering practices.
As a Co-Founder and CTO at Amberscript, I led the engineering department in scaling the platform from 0 to 2 million users. I'm passionate about translating business needs into technical execution and creating user-friendly product experiences.
Professional Experience
Fractional CTO - Wearr UG
01/2025 - 03/2025Technology advisory and development of an MVP for a premium fashion peer to peer rental platform
Co-Founder, CTO, VP of Engineering - Amberscript
04/2018 – 12/2023Development of proprietary speech-to-text and ML models for transcription and subtitling
- Hands on development + team management
- Lead engineering, data science and product team at various stages
- Worked on product management, product strategy, software architecture, full-stack development
- Hired and leading a team of up to 20 developers; setting up and managing a remote team in Ukraine and Serbia
- Developed new product offerings and set up auto scaling architecture using modern DevOps practices
- Lead efforts to scale the product to more than 2 million users
Front end development lead - Venture IQ
01/2016 – 04/2018Responsible for the front end development of the deal flow management and company search tool Catalist
Education
TH Köln
10/2014 – 07/2015MSc Communication Systems and Networks (discontinued)
Queensland University of Technology
07/2012 – 01/2013Courses: Global Business, Marketing, Networks
TH Köln
10/2010 - 07/2014BSc Electrical Engineering, Final Grade: 1,7 (1 is best, 5 is fail)
Languages
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