PRODUCT INNOVATION — SINCE 2010
STEPHAN
WIRSICH
Curious about how things work.
Skeptical about why we assume they do.
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I am drawn to understanding how things connect. Technical systems, organisational dynamics, market forces - most interesting problems live at the boundaries between them.
That curiosity has taken me through different roles. Developer, CTO, founder, CPO. Each one showed me a different part of the same puzzle. How technical choices shape organisations. How organisational choices constrain products.
How products succeed or fail based on questions nobody thought to ask.
I have learned to translate between these worlds - not just speaking different languages, but questioning what each side takes for granted.
The expensive mistakes usually hide in assumptions that feel too obvious to examine.
The curiosity has not faded. The questions have gotten better. The boundaries have gotten more interesting.
Along the way, I have built cloud platforms, AI products, IoT frameworks. Four companies. Teams across different stages and scales. Each one a different system. Each one with its own patterns of what worked and what didn't.
Two things are occupying my thinking right now.
First: how AI changes product development.
Not "AI features" - the fundamental shift in how software gets built and operated. AI-orchestrated work. What that means for teams, for processes, for what "product" even is.
I am hands - on with this shift - building, not just observing.
Second: platform engineering as product work. Internal platforms, developer experience, the systems that make other systems possible.
Why some platform teams succeed where others become bottlenecks.
Both are about systems.
Both require asking different questions than we asked before.
Let’s Connect
I am interested in conversations with people who think about these things too. Systems, patterns, the questions underneath the obvious ones.
Zürich, Switzerland