Christoph Kronast
IT experience since 2000.
I combine experience as a CTO and in building international teams with my current work in AI and cloud consulting at Deloitte Switzerland. My focus is business value, clear accountability and delivery that works in everyday practice.
Zurich, SwitzerlandDE / EN
Currently · Manager Cloud Transformation at Deloitte Consulting AG
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01 / Perspective
For me, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud involve practical decisions: Which use cases support the business? What changes to architecture and operations make sense? And who is accountable for delivery?
My career combines many years of professional experience in Germany, with roles in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg, and extensive experience elsewhere in Europe – in Sofia, Belgrade and Athens. I have also worked with offshore teams in India and Bangladesh.
These experiences shape how I lead: building trust, clarifying responsibilities and working towards shared goals across locations and cultures.
Developing people, clarifying responsibilities and enabling collaboration across locations are the foundations of good leadership for me.
I assess technical decisions by how they serve users, the business model and the product’s development.
Software development, platform architecture and cloud give me the grounding to make informed technical decisions together with teams.
02 / Experience
From my first IT business through formal technical training and building international teams to AI and cloud consulting.
Manager Cloud Transformation
I advise on cloud architecture and operating models, aligning business needs, technical responsibilities and delivery. My current focus is AI and cloud.
Technology consulting
I worked on consulting projects in Sofia for technooloo LLC, based in Wyoming, USA. My work for international clients covered technology strategy, architecture and delivery for digital products, B2B CRM, ServiceNow, AI and automation. I contributed to a Confluence and Rovo knowledge platform for airline operations, delivered in October 2025.
Senior Manager Software Development
Built an engineering team in Sofia and led the development of an Azure migration concept, successfully validated through a pilot project. Worked with engineering, product and operations across locations.
Article about Amadeus Sofia LabsInterim Chief Technology Officer
Defined the technology roadmap and prepared the organisation for investor engagement during a transition period.
VP Product Development → Chief Technology Officer
Initially responsible for product development and the US market launch, then for product and technology as CTO. My work covered international expansion, cloud strategy, core-system modernisation, partner integrations and collaboration across distributed engineering teams.
Team Manager → Head of e-Service → Director Software Development
Progressed from Team Manager Web Development through Head of e-Service to Director Software Development. Focused on booking and e-commerce platforms, digital customer services and international engineering collaboration.
Vocational training in application development
Building on my early experience with Kronast EDV, I chose formal training to deepen my technical knowledge. At MD.H, I trained as a Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung. I was also responsible for the functional and technical implementation of the virtual campus.
Studies in mechatronics
Studied mechatronics before pursuing vocational training in application development.
Founded after leaving school · Sole proprietorship
After leaving school, I founded my first IT business, Kronast EDV, under kronast-edv.de. Practical work and entrepreneurial responsibility introduced me to IT and motivated me to pursue further technical training.
03 / Focus
Three connected priorities: enabling people, putting AI to practical use and creating a dependable technical foundation with cloud.
Who makes decisions, who delivers and who is responsible for operations? My experience includes building international teams, developing people and collaboration across product, engineering and operations. For me, trust and clear responsibilities belong together.
What problem should AI solve, and how will its value be assessed? Before deployment, questions arise about data, access rights, output quality and human oversight. It also matters whether people adopt the application in their daily work.
Which applications benefit from modernisation? How do security, operational effort and costs change? My experience connects architecture work with clear technical responsibilities and collaboration across product, engineering and operations.
04 / Further reading
At technooloo, I contributed to a knowledge platform for airline operations. Confluence structures process knowledge and responsibilities; Rovo helps people find the information they need. The reference describes the project delivered in October 2025.
Read project reference (External website)DEV.BG · 14 May 2021The article covers the expansion of Amadeus Sofia Labs during the pandemic, work on travel platforms and the move towards cloud technologies. As Senior Manager for Leisure Package Distribution, I discuss Bulgaria’s IT talent and plans to grow the team in Sofia.
Read original article (Bulgarian) (External website)Case study · punkt.deAn external case study about the technical platform at FTI and sonnenklar.tv, with insights into architecture, scalability and collaboration.
Read case study (German) (External website)Company announcement · 2015The announcement of my move to HolidayPirates describes the next step from software development into product responsibility.
Read company announcement (German) (External website)26 years in IT. People at the heart of it.
The story behind the domain
After leaving school, I founded my first IT business, Kronast EDV, in 2000. I wanted to combine practical experience with a formal technical qualification. That led me to vocational training in application development at Mediadesign Hochschule für Design und Informatik (MD.H) from 2004 to 2007, qualifying as a Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung. Kronast EDV remains my starting point. At kronast.ch, I now connect that experience with people, AI and cloud.
05 / Contact
Are you assessing AI initiatives, planning cloud modernisation or developing collaboration across international teams? I welcome a professional exchange by email or on LinkedIn.