A humble software company based in Cologne, Germany. We offer software development and consulting services.
To find out how we can best support you, drop us a line for a free consultation.
Software development
If you want to experiment with an idea, build an MVP, or generally delegate some of your software development to a reliable, experienced and well attuned team, we'd be happy to help you. We don't mind tricky situations: Working with problematic legacy systems, tight timelines or budgets, or otherwise non-trivial endeavours, regardless of whether they are difficult technically, or in other respects.
Since we're not only developers, we can also fill the shoes of a technical co-founder or product manager: We can help you define your prototype or MVP in the beginning, and we can help you build and scale your own full-time team in the end.
Experience
We're a small team of mostly generalists, happy to work with pretty much any code base or tech stack, legacy or modern, from web and mobile to embedded and infrastructure.
Our developers have done significant work in JavaScript and TypeScript (from vanilla web tech to React et al.), Python, C#, PHP, C and C++, Rust, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Go and more.
In addition, we have Chief Technology Officer, product management and design expertise in the team that we can deploy if you need more than just development.
As a team, we've built apps (web, mobile and desktop), websites, services, embedded systems and AI integrations in various industries - from consumer software and e-commerce to software for professionals such as investors, service technicians, accountants or legal professionals.
Most of us worked together in the past, and we've been building software as one team since early 2024.
Consulting
For the time being, I, Felix Dahlke, am the product here; sharing my experience and skills through consulting services.
As a seasoned Chief Technology Officer, I mainly help our clients with what I know best:
- Consulting leadership from strategy to execution;
- Coaching existing CTOs and technical leadership;
- Assessing and appraising your existing technology and organisation;
- Building teams;
- Overseeing outsourcing companies and keeping them honest;
- Acting as your fractional CTO until you're ready for a full-time hire.
Generally speaking: If you have a problem, and if I have the expertise and time to fix it, I'm happy to help.
Experience
Since I took my first job as a programmer in 2005, I've been building software professionally. In 2012, I took on my first real leadership position, which culminated in me becoming CTO and managing director in 2015. After growing the company from seven to more than 230 employees and 55 MM EUR annual revenue, I joined another startup as CTO in 2020, which I ran and grew for two years. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure funding in the economic situation of 2022 and had to shut down. In January 2023, I started my own business - this one.
Given my experience in CTO roles, technical leadership is probably my main selling point. Remote organisations and teams, full or hybrid, are where I'm most experienced, having run such places since 2012. I've built and launched new products, scaled up existing products to hundreds of millions of users, developed successful company strategies, created teams and scaled them up into entire business units or separate businesses, managed acquisitions, hired hundreds of software developers, product professionals and managers, trained entry-level and junior developers, coached dozens of people in leadership roles, managed reorganisations, change processes and lay-offs.
When asked if I focus on leadership or technology, my answer is usually that I refuse to choose just one. I enjoy both, and good leadership can come from deeply understanding both the work and the workers.
Free consultation
We offer one free consultation to every potential new client. So if you want some quick advice without any costs or paperwork involved: Write to us, and we'd be happy to jump on a call or exchange a few emails at no charge.
Imprint
Dahlke Tech GmbH
Im Mediapark 5
50670 Cologne
Germany
Managing directors: Felix Dahlke
Commercial register: Amtsgericht Köln, HRB 120773
VAT ID: DE447882414