Oliver Wehrens
Seasoned Technology Leader. Mentor. Dad.

Hi, I'm Oliver Wehrens.

For over 20 years I shaped Technology & Product in companies ranging from startups to major cooperations. I started my career in software engineering and moved to technology leadership in roles like Head of Architecture, CTO and VP Engineering. I transform technology and shape cultural changes in organizations. I am a proponent of the fact that every change in technology, product and organisation triggers a change in the other areas.

Beyond that, I like to share my expertise and learnings at the Mentoring Club as well as in articles here.

Enjoy

Publications

Using AI and Model Context Protocol to create more usable Jira Tickets

Using AI and Model Context Protocol to create more usable Jira Tickets How many Jira tickets have you seen which are just one line of description? Fear no more. Your friendly AI will help you. (More AI slop?)
article 2 min read

iOS Development Setup with Cursor AI

iOS Development Setup with Cursor AI How to setup Cursor AI for iOS Development.
article 7 min read

The return of product and requirements development. Writing software without being a developer.

The return of product and requirements development. Writing software without being a developer. I do not know Swift nor iOS Development. Yet, I wrote a fully fledged Podcast Player for iOS in 3 hours.
article 9 min read

Running Deepseek 671B Model on a PC locally

Running Deepseek 671B Model on a PC locally You can now run the 671B model of DeepSeek locally thanks to unsloth.
article 17 min read

The Pivotal Role of Tech Leadership in Overseeing the Big Picture

The Pivotal Role of Tech Leadership in Overseeing the Big Picture What does it mean to take care of the Big Picture? What are your responsibilities?
article 2 min read

Reporting on a big waterscrum project

Reporting on a big waterscrum project Learn how I managed to report a 100 agile developer company into a big corporate strategic project, how we measured progress and met the deadline.
article 5 min read

Fuckup: Goodhart's Law in practice - tie a metric to a bonus

Fuckup: Goodhart's Law in practice - tie a metric to a bonus We had good intentions of increasing the quality of the code base. Well ...
article 2 min read

Fuckup: Programming Languages and Organizations

Fuckup: Programming Languages and Organizations How not to deal with programming languages introduced by developers.
article 3 min read

Clean code ... should you DRY?

Clean code ... should you DRY? Don't repeat yourself. This is a core principle of programming. Right? Or? Why not?
article 2 min read

Why you need a macro architecture

Why you need a macro architecture What is a macro architecture and what is important?
article 3 min read