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Engineering leadership
Making product direction, technical decisions and team ownership work together, with responsibility for the people and systems involved.
Patrik Kluge
Group CTO. Independent builder. Founder of APPIK.
Turning ambitious ideas into working products.
I’m Group CTO at Synatix and the independent builder behind APPIK. I bring engineering leadership into hands-on product building, using AI and agentic engineering to turn problems I know from everyday life into working systems.
Independent products · APPIK
Built from everyday life
What deserves my time?
- 01Context
- 02Choose
- 03Start
- 04Experience
In development · invite-only pilot
Turning personal context into a confident decision about free time, and a first step that actually starts.
Inside APPIKtivity →What are we eating?
- 01Decide
- 02Plan
- 03Shop
- 04Cook
Private beta
Connecting household food decisions, recipes, planning, shopping and cooking.
Inside APPIK TABLE →Experience, ownership, possibility
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Independent product building
Taking responsibility for the whole product: the problem, the experience, the architecture and what happens after it ships.
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Agentic engineering
Working with agents across analysis, planning, prototyping and implementation. A growing part of how I connect systems and take on more ambitious work.
Speaking & conversations
Lessons from the work
Engineering leadership, independent product building, and what working with agents changes in practice.
Speaking & podcasts →code.talks 2025 · with Philipp Grote
Stage Separation: Engineering Velocity & Legacy Modernization
Modernizing systems while keeping the business moving.
Talk and recording →For good conversations
Products, engineering, builder connections, or a thoughtful speaking and podcast invitation.