Anders Hybertz

COM<tech> is a one-person consultancy by design. Clients work directly with Anders from the first conversation and throughout the engagement.

Since 2000, the work has centred on software architecture, technical leadership, and difficult deliveries across regulated industries and complex organisations. The common denominator is not a particular technology. It is situations where the architecture matters, the systems have to hold up in practice, and the organisation needs clear judgement rather than noise.

The working style is pragmatic, calm, and long-term minded. Good solutions balance technical quality, business reality, and a team's ability to evolve them over time. The preference is to be present from the first architectural decision through to production — and to see value delivered, not just handed over.

“Anders not only has a sharp mind but is also able to share his ideas and visions in a manner that makes the team-members join in. He also possesses the ability to lift the competences of his team-members.”
Morten Edward Foltmar, Freelance Software Developer, AP Pension

Professional craftsmanship over noise

The aim is to create clarity, reduce unnecessary complexity, and make sound decisions that the organisation can live with afterwards. Less noise. More substance. Architecture should help the work move forward, not become a separate performance around it.

Architecture with a long view

Decisions should still make sense when the project pressure is gone. Maintainability, traceability, and operational reality are part of the job from the beginning.

Pragmatic and clear-headed

There are no best practices, only good practices, and the judgment to know which ones fit here. It starts with listening. Understanding the actual problem before proposing a solution is not a courtesy. It is the work.

Hands-on when needed

Architecture, delivery, reviews, mentoring, and implementation support. The work follows the problem instead of protecting a role description.

Calm under delivery pressure

Much of the work has been in programmes with real deadlines, competing stakeholders, and systems that could not simply fail and be retried later.

Knowledge that stays behind

An engagement should leave the organisation with better understanding, better practices, and a team that can continue without artificial dependency.

Less, but better

Complexity is easy to add and expensive to carry. Good architecture often comes from reducing what is unnecessary and making the rest clearer.

What clients typically bring me in for

Architecture work under delivery pressure. Modernisation without unnecessary rewrites. Technical leadership where teams need direction, calm, and practical judgement.

Architecture and delivery recovery

When a programme or project has become technically unclear, too coupled, or difficult to steer, the first task is usually to make the shape of the problem visible and help the team regain control.

Regulated and high-consequence systems

Work where traceability, auditability, documentation, and reliability are not administrative extras but part of what makes the solution acceptable.

Cloud, platform, and AI decisions

Especially where there is a need to separate useful technology choices from fashionable ones, and where operations and adoption matter as much as the architecture diagram.

Senior sparring for teams and leaders

Architecture reviews, technical direction, mentoring, and independent judgement in situations where internal teams need an experienced outside perspective without a lot of consulting noise.

Where I have worked

Different sectors, but usually with real operational, financial, or regulatory consequences.

Pharmaceutical manufacturingFinancial services and insuranceManufacturing and industrialEnergy and utilitiesPublic sectorTelecom and mobileHealthcare and life sciencesBanking

Core stack

Strongest around the Microsoft ecosystem, but guided by architecture and context rather than attachment to a stack.

.NET / C#PythonMicrosoft AzureKubernetesDockerDaprAzure DevOpsTerraformBicepEvent-driven architectureRESTful APIsAzure MLOpenShiftCI/CD pipelines

Appointments, awards, and nominations

Recognition from clients, peers, the freelance network, and courts. Useful as a trust signal, but always secondary to whether the work itself stands up.

PSQIT Innovation Prize 2020

Novo Nordisk

Team prize for a solution that optimised batch changeover procedures on production lines.

Best Individual Performance of the Year

7N, associated with Novo Nordisk

Best Individual Performance of the Year

7N, associated with RSA / Codan

Nominee, Best Team Performance of the Year

7N, associated with RSA / Codan

Need a calm senior perspective on a difficult situation?

If a system has become harder to steer, a delivery needs firmer technical footing, or an important decision should be worked through properly, write.