Andreas-Peter Heumaier

interim CTO, Led post-merger integration and platform consolidations for software companies within the Clients' portfolio, managing combined engineering organizations of 200+ across multiple geographies.

Led post-merger integration and operational turnaround for three security software companies within Valsoft's portfolio, managing combined engineering organizations of 80+ across multiple geographies.

- Integrated disparate technology stacks, development processes, and infrastructure across three acquisitions

- Consolidated IT systems and tooling, reducing operational overhead by 40%

- Unified authentication, monitoring, and deployment infrastructure

- Established shared services model while maintaining product independence

- Redesigned engineering organization structure to eliminate redundancies and improve efficiency

- Implemented matrix management approach balancing product autonomy with shared technical leadership

- Restructured teams around product lines and customer segments

- Reduced management layers while improving accountability and decision-making speed

- Stabilized underperforming engineering operations

- Addressed technical debt and quality issues blocking customer renewals

- Implemented engineering metrics and KPIs to drive performance improvement

- Restored customer confidence through improved delivery cadence and reliability

- Developed unified product strategy across portfolio while maintaining distinct market positions

- Identified cross-selling and bundling opportunities between portfolio companies

- Rationalized product roadmaps to focus on high-value features and customer retention

- Established architecture principles for long-term platform convergence

Results:Improved engineering velocity 35%, reduced critical incidents 60%, achieved operational cost synergies of €2M annually.

Technical Strategy and Vision: Developed and executed the company's technical strategy, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and driving innovation across all product lines. Technical Leadership: Closely involved in architecture decisions and strategic reviews to ensure platform scalability and engineering quality. Engineering Culture: Fostered a collaborative and innovative engineering culture using AI-assisted product delivery tooling, leading by example and empowering teams to take ownership of their work. Partnered with CPO, Product, and Sales to align technical execution with market and investor strategy. Modernized agile processes to meet tight delivery deadlines and successfully launch new products. Nearshore org strategy: Established a nearshore engineering hub in Portugal to optimize costs without expanding overall budget. Led distributed engineering teams through major platform modernization, organizational realignment, and accelerated product delivery to achieve this growth. Drove a 19% year-over-year increase in platform usage, scaling Myneva to 537,000 active platform users and enabling care delivery to 1.66 million clients across Europe (2024).