Jens Botzenhardt

Senior Software Engineering Leader
Global Team Scaling
Digital Transformation Expert

15+ years driving organizational transformation and platform strategy across global engineering organizations, with extensive leadership experience in Germany, Italy, and the USA.

  • Scale: Scaled distributed teams 4x (9 to 36 internal, plus 100+ external resources across Europe, India, and China) while maintaining <2% turnover.

  • Efficiency: Established lean agile excellence via automated CI/CD frameworks, reducing defects by 40%.

  • Architecture: Architected centralized software platforms achieving 70% component standardization.

  • High-Integrity Delivery: Expert in safety-critical systems (ISO 26262, ASPICE), ensuring mission-critical reliability in regulated environments.

  • Future-Ready: Driving AI-enabled productivity and architecting for high-performance scale.

  • Strategic Alignment: Bridging the gap from executive leadership to project engineers—aligning customer relations with quality control to ship the best product, on time.

  • Mentorship: Developed technical and leadership coaching programs that established a new generation of inter-company experts and team leaders.