Christian Rawe

Services

Rather than building custom software on ticket-by-ticket specs, I join teams as a Technical Product Owner and Solution Architect. I close the gap between leadership, domain experts and engineering — grounded in running my own live products and 10+ years of production systems.

Primary role
Technical Product Owner & Solution Architect
Engagement model
Interim / Fractional PO, Discovery & Architecture Steering
Track record
Own live products (Auftrag One, OnSand) & 10+ years in production

Technical Product Ownership

Interim / Fractional Product Owner · Discovery to Release

Case study: OnSand

Product ownership backed by architectural judgment: I align product vision, stakeholder goals and technical feasibility into a clear roadmap and actionable backlog — steering the team from discovery to production releases.

When teams bring me in

Your engineering team is shipping code, but product strategy, domain stakeholders and architecture are pulling in different directions — or a new initiative needs one accountable owner who speaks both business and systems.

What I own & deliver

  • Product strategy, OKRs, user discovery and evidence-based roadmap prioritization
  • Sharp backlog, technically sound user stories and unambiguous acceptance criteria
  • Sprint and release governance, stakeholder alignment and grounded build-vs.-buy decisions

AI Product Strategy & LLM Integration

AI Product Owner · From PoC to Production

Case study: Auftrag One

From AI prototype to reliable product capability: I evaluate AI use cases for real business impact, scope document and data pipelines, and guide integration into daily workflows instead of isolated demos.

When teams bring me in

You have early AI prototypes or automation ideas, but lack the bridge between domain workflows, evaluation quality, cost control and production reliability.

What I own & deliver

  • Use-case discovery, ROI scoping and feasibility validation on real domain data
  • Scoping and steering of classification, extraction and semantic search pipelines
  • Evaluation metrics, guardrails, EU-compliant data governance and staged rollout

Solution Architecture & Modernization

Solution Architect · Target State, ADRs & Migration

Case study: Artconnect

Decouple legacy monoliths without downtime, define clean event-driven boundaries (Kafka, CQRS) and record decisions as ADRs — so product roadmap and system architecture move at the same pace again.

When teams bring me in

Technical debt or an aging monolith slows down every new product feature, and your team needs a pragmatic migration path while keeping the platform live.

What I own & deliver

  • Architecture audit, domain boundary mapping (DDD) and pragmatic target architecture
  • Zero-downtime migration roadmap sliced into increments that deliver business value early
  • Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), service contracts and technical sparring for the team

Cloud Platform & Delivery Governance

Platform Lead · GCP, Kubernetes & Operations

Case study: Auftrag One

Reproducible delivery pipelines, Kubernetes on GCP, observability, disaster recovery and cost governance — a platform foundation that lets product teams ship safely and fast.

When teams bring me in

Releases feel risky or manual, cloud spend is growing opaque, or regulatory requirements (GDPR, EU-only hosting) demand a clean, auditable platform setup.

What I own & deliver

  • CI/CD automation, deployment standards and fast feedback loops for the product team
  • Kubernetes platform (GKE/Helm), auto-scaling, automated backups and disaster recovery
  • Cloud cost governance, monitoring/SLAs and GDPR-compliant EU infrastructure

Why a Technical Product Owner instead of custom coding?

Writing code is faster than ever. Today's bottleneck is scoping the right product, weighing priorities against real system constraints, and owning decisions through to production.

Zero translation loss between business and engineering
Because I have designed and shipped distributed systems myself for 10+ years, I spot architectural risks while shaping the roadmap — not three sprints later in a blocked PR.
Decisive prioritization over feature wishlists
A strong backlog is defined by what it leaves out. I structure requirements so engineers immediately understand why a capability matters, where the edge cases lie, and what done looks like.
Product accountability proven on my own live platforms
With Auftrag One and OnSand, I build and run my own live products in the market. I know user discovery, operational reliability, GDPR and cloud economics from my own P&L.

How we work together

A short path from first call to a team that owns the result.

  1. Intro call

    30 minutes on your goal, constraints and timeline.

  2. Scope & proposal

    A written proposal with approach, milestones and effort, so you can decide on facts.

  3. Iterative delivery

    Working software in short iterations, deployed early, with regular demos.

  4. Handover

    Documentation, architecture decision records and onboarding, so your team owns what we built.

Engagement

Availability
Open for new projects
Day rate
On request
Work mode
Remote or on-site in Berlin
Languages
German, English
Open for new projects

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