Co-Founder and CEO of @leanix_net: Changing old fashioned tool market and thinking of #EnterpriseArchitecture. Loves #tennis, #devops & #microservices

Germany, Bonn
Joined October 2011
Roll up your sleeves and build product - the state of tech 2026
My keynote at LDX3 New York, "The state of the tech industry in 2026". is out now. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:53 What changed 12:29 What's not changed 16:14 What broke 22:53 What’s next And for notes + slides, see: newsletter.pragmaticengineer… Hope it's useful!
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Claude Code productivity boost
I wanted to share a bunch of my favorite hidden and under-utilized features in Claude Code. I'll focus on the ones I use the most. Here goes.
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CTO & CIOs: stop burning AI talent rewriting ERP/HCM/CRM and others. IT is 10% of company budget; and you're missing security, compliance, and enterprise basics along the way. The other 90%? Procurement, ops, finance - still running on spreadsheets. That's your asymmetric AI bet.
Cannot wait for teams that build their custom JIRA/Workday replacement/custom CRM to one day turn around and ask: “Why do we have so much internal software that is buggy / has poor UX + we need to maitain?” Seen this movie well before AI, when Uber built uChat (custom Slack)
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Founder Mode
CEO of Shopify @tobi is shipping more code than ever. 2024: 94 commits 2025: 833 commits 2026: 957 commits (in first 45 days of the year) Claude is turning CEOs back to builder mode.
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STARTUP SUMMER SLAM Festival 2023 Wir möchten uns bedanken bei: den inspirierenden Rednern, den Musik Acts, den beeindruckenden Start-ups, der Founders Fight Night, der Jury, den zahlreichen Teilnehmenden und selbstverständlich unseren Partnern. #dwnrw #sssf23 #digitalhub
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„Win your category“ is what we believe in at @leanix_net too. The category of Enterprise architecture was 10+ y old and had 15 vendors in the @Gartner_inc MQ when we entered. Difficult for early investors. Now we have the highest ARR. Persistence and passion made it possible.
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André Christ retweeted
Introducing #LeanIX AI Assistant! LeanIX becomes the first EA vendor to apply the power of generative AI to enterprise architecture data. @christ_andre invites LeanIX customers to subscribe to the beta through the public roadmap page at roadmap.leanix.net.
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André Christ retweeted
Tonight, we hosted the #LeanIXConnect Welcome Reception at the Frankfurt Congress Center. A great opportunity to meet other attendees, speakers and the #LeanIX team over refreshments ahead of an exciting event! Register now to watch live tomorrow: buff.ly/420Zt4D
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André Christ retweeted
We're over the moon! LeanIX has been awarded Leader Badges for the G2 Spring 2023 Grid® Reports in four different categories! Thanks to #LeanIX users who chose us as an industry leader for #enterprisearchitecture tools & #application portfolio management! bit.ly/41V3mIt
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André Christ retweeted
We are honored to be recognized on the famous Nasdaq Tower for signing our 1,000th customer! 👏 After doubling our customer base and employee headcount in less than two years, we are excited to celebrate this milestone in our story. bit.ly/3niH5VX #LeanIX
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Today, we welcomed our 500th colleague David Wiske to the #LeanIX team! Since 2020, #LeanIX has not only doubled its customer base, but also the number of employees! We are actively hiring, so check out our careers page. bit.ly/3jMXkZL #LeanIX #EnterpriseArchitecture #EA
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André Christ hat ein weithin unbekanntes, aber sehr erfolgreiches Softwareunternehmen aufgebaut. Während anderswo Krisenstimmung herrscht, wird bei #LeanIX fleißig eingestellt. Jonas Jansen (@VierzuEinser) stellt ihn vor: faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/d…
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LeanIX is named a Leader and was positioned highest for ability to execute in the December 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools: bit.ly/3VTqXGx #LeanIX #EnterpriseArchitecture #EA #EAM
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André Christ retweeted
ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology where you see a glimmer of how everything is going to be different going forward.
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Really start to like #ChatGPT 😀 @leanix_net #SaaS
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Ok, this is crazy. Asked #ChatGPT „How to pitch @leanix_net?“
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Could not agree more. If @leanix_net was started purely on microservices, company would not exist. We stayed monolith during bootstrapping and still run a large core service. It has saved us from tons of distributed systems complexities. Microservices around core to scale teams.
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Architectures drawn on whiteboards are outdated the moment you are done. @elonmusk a data-driven tool like @leanix_net might save you a lot of headache 😀
Just leaving Twitter HQ code review
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