Sara Brodin

Senior Technical Program Manager

2024 - Current

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.