Boris Fründt

Boris Fründt

Technical Product Lead

Technical Product Lead at Ascléa · product and engineering

Potsdam, Germany+49 160 1559634hey@boris.ioboris.iolinkedin.com/in/borisfruendtgithub.com/b0ndt

Profile

Technical Product Lead and former CTO with 20+ years building digital products end-to-end, from architecture and code to go-live. AI practitioner since 2015 (IBM Watson, LLMs, agent systems). Background spans automotive, health tech, IoT and agency work. Most effective when close to both the product and the code.

Experience

Technical Product Lead · Ascléa · Berlin / Remote

– Present

  • Product lead for Clé, in pilot at the Charité.
  • Turn regulatory and security requirements (EU AI Act, MDR) into things clinicians can use.
  • Prioritise the roadmap with clinical, regulatory and engineering stakeholders.

Product Builder & Technical Product Manager · Freelance · Remote

– Present

  • DEIN ERSTER TAG: technical product lead for a Gen Z apprenticeship finder app (Flutter, Laravel).
  • Technologiestiftung Berlin: product ownership and UI prototypes for an open data platform on culture.
  • SDA SE: white-label health insurance service app (Angular, Ionic, NgRx).
  • XU Group: concept and prototype for a white-label employee learning platform.
  • Dozens of completed client engagements. Now only my own products, like das-beste-produkt.de and SnapDial.

Interim Chief Technology Officer (CTO) · SWAN · Remote

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  • Led 23 engineers across firmware, mobile and cloud as interim CTO.
  • Owned IoT architecture and device-to-cloud communication.
  • Scaled the platform through to acquisition by a US company.

Interim Senior Manager · digetiers · Remote

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  • Member of the digetiers leadership team; led the automotive pricing client project.
  • From visual prototypes and click dummies to an AI vehicle pricing SPA with real-time data.
  • Discovery, epics, user stories, backlog and stakeholder coordination.
  • Delivery with frontend developers, UX designers and QA in rapid prototyping cycles.

Technical Director · Jung von Matt · Hamburg

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  • Built and led the technical product organisation at a leading creative agency.
  • Product strategy and technical delivery for major brands including BMW, Daimler and Lufthansa.
  • Drove PWA, headless CMS and VR/AR adoption in a creative environment.

Web Application Architect & Consultant · IBM iX · Hamburg

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  • Helped build IBM iX Studio Hamburg from scratch.
  • Early AI work: Watson-based prototypes incl. a BMW i8 configurator (2015).
  • Ran Design Thinking workshops; turned business needs into scalable architecture.

Senior Web Developer & Team Coordinator · Jung von Matt · Hamburg

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  • Grew from developer to team lead, building products for major brands.
  • Mentored junior developers and coordinated delivery.

Web Developer · IBM · Hamburg

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  • Front-end development for enterprise clients.

Skills

Leadership & Team Management
Team building and talent development, Cross-functional collaboration, Stakeholder management, Conflict resolution, Project communication, Organizational development
Technical Product Management
Product strategy, Feature prioritization, User story mapping, Technical documentation, API design, Release management, Hardware-software integration, Embedded software architecture
AI & Data Analytics
AI strategy and integration, LLM integration (Claude, GPT, Gemini), Vercel AI SDK and AI Gateway, Agent systems, Prompt engineering, LLM evals, Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, Spec-driven AI development (ADRs, agent skills), Deterministic ranking with LLM-written verdicts, RAG pipelines, Data analytics and visualization, Data-driven decision making
Frontend
React and Next.js, TypeScript and JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, Progressive Web Apps, Responsive design, Performance optimization, E2E and unit testing (Playwright, Vitest, Jest)
Backend & Cloud
Node.js, RESTful and GraphQL APIs, Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), Firebase, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, Serverless Postgres (Neon, Drizzle ORM), Vercel platform (Blob, Edge Config, BotID), Durable workflows (Vercel Workflow), Auth (Better Auth, Clerk), Python data pipelines (geodata, PDF extraction), Docker and microservices
Mobile
React Native and Expo, Cross-platform development, Native integration, In-app purchases and subscriptions (RevenueCat, expo-iap), App Store releases (EAS Build), Local-first apps, Mobile performance optimization, Hybrid app development (Flutter)
IoT & Connected Devices
IoT product strategy, Connected device ecosystems, Device-to-cloud communication
UX & Product Design
User research, Interaction design, Usability testing, Design systems, Prototyping (Figma), Design Thinking
Growth & Monetization
Programmatic SEO, Affiliate monetization (Amazon PartnerNet, AWIN)
Languages
German (native), English (fluent), French (basic)

Education

B.Sc. Business Information Systems (dual study)

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Berlin School of Economics and Law + IBM Germany

Thesis: "From Web 2.0 to vBusiness: application potentials of virtual world environments for businesses."

Abitur (A-levels)

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Hedwig-Bollhagen-Gymnasium, Velten

Focus: English, History; further: Mathematics, Computer Science.