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Johannes Thönes

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Head of Engineering - Customer at Free2move
📍 Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, Germany

Johannes is an engineering leader with extensive experience managing teams of up to 30 engineers in critical product areas. He specializes in stabilizing organizations, transforming legacy systems with significant technical debt, and championing technical excellence. He holds a Diplom from Heidelberg University.

Johannes is passionate about leveling up teams and organizations through a people-first approach that involves coaching, training, and structured leadership development. He is a proponent of continuous learning within the software engineering field and is interested in the future of mobility.

He once rebuilt an entire software delivery department from the ground up, hiring the team and establishing all processes.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering - Customer
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, Germany
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AI-Assisted Delivery
Focuses on using playbooks and automated guardrails for AI-assisted delivery, emphasizing the need for upskilling and shared learning within teams.
Legacy System Transformation
Specializes in modernizing brown-field applications with real users and revenue dependency, making change safer in complex systems.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Head of Engineering - Customer
Free2move
1-2024 - 6-2024
Head of Engineering - Car Sharing
Free2move
6-2020 - 12-2023
Engineering Manager – Customer Core
Free2move
2-2019 - 5-2020
Head of Engineering & Tech Lead
ORBIT - orbitdigital.de
5-2012 - 1-2019
Technical Lead, Software Developer, Consultant, Devil's Advocate
ThoughtWorks
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Education
2004 - 2009
Diplom
Heidelberg University
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