
Lead Product Engineer
Théo Carrara
Engineering leadership for startups: founding engineer, interim head of engineering and tech lead, from a first onboarding system to turning around a stalled platform.
About
Théo is an engineering leader who has worked at every stage of a startup: as founding engineer at Peec AI, where he designed the first self-service onboarding system and led a full UI/UX redesign with a new design system, and as principal engineer at Kittl, where activation grew over 35% in under four months.
As interim head of engineering at Dutchess Management he led a turnaround of a stalled $500K+ AI platform with a distributed team of 8, rebuilding a 9-month project in 2 months. Before that he was tech lead at MySecondEar in Berlin, growing the team from 5 to over 55 people and moving the storefront to Next.js.
Experience
Lead Product Engineer · Sursum
2026–present
Lead Product Engineer · Altar.io
2026
Product Engineer · ELYS HEALTH
2026
Founding Engineer · Peec AI
2025
Interim Head of Engineering · Dutchess Management
2024–2025
Principal Engineer · Kittl
2023–2024
Technical Lead · MySecondEar Audiology Group
2021–2023
Frontend Developer · MySecondEar Audiology Group
2020–2023