A winning team of experts

Our teams provide a wide set of capabilities that meet – and exceed – our clients’ needs. Our service is more than the sum of its parts.

The team

finnlabs’ success comes from teamwork and experience. We don’t just write great software – we ‘talk’ software. Excellent communication is finnlabs’ true asset; it is vital for project management, especially when building complex systems with many dependencies and features.

Wieland Lindenthal, Niels Lindenthal, Thies Lindenthal

Wieland
Lindenthal

M.Sc. Software
Engineering
E-Mail: W.Lindenthal
XING

Founding director and technical lead.
Graduated from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Focusses on systems engineering and project management.
Responsible for HR and Recruiting.
A decade of experience in developing internet products.

Niels
Lindenthal

Dipl.-Kfm., MBA

E-Mail: N.Lindenthal
XING

Founding director with roots in classic management consultancy.
Extensive management and consulting experience for global industry leaders.
Business development and product management.
Graduate from European Business School and Georgia State University.

Dr. Thies
Lindenthal

PhD Economics &
Finance
E-Mail: T.Lindenthal
XING

Founding director.
Internet entrepreneur since 1999.
Focusses on strategy and product development.
Beside his engagement at finnlabs, he is a scientist. His research interests are real estate finance and internet economics. He was visiting scholar at Harvard University and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Birthe Russmeyer

Dipl.-Kff. E-Mail: B.Russmeyer

Agile project management and Scrum, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), several years of experience gained in international project environments.
Development and implementation of change management strategies, i.e. stakeholder management, training concepts, coaching, project communication, organisational development.
Expertise in eLearning, authoring tools and learning management systems.
Requirements engineering, rollout-coordination, business process development.
Industry experience in telecommunication and technology companies.
Birthe holds a degree in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kff.) from International School of Management, Dortmund.

Christian Ratz

Software Engineer E-Mail: C. Ratz

Develops web applications with various programming languages for almost a decade.
Experienced in agile development techniques.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer.
Experienced in automation with emphasis on Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

Christian Rijke

M.Sc. in Computer Science E-Mail: C. Rijke

Years of experience building large software systems ranging from CRM to point of sale and financial transaction processing solutions.
Experienced with large database systems and high volume batch processing systems.
Web developer with a focus on Ruby On Rails, API design and Javascript.
Winner of a scholarship from Open Knowledge Foundation for open source work.
Agile, Scrum and TDD enthusiast.
Holds a degree in Computer Science (M.Sc.) from ETH Zurich.

Hagen Schink

Dipl.-Inform. E-Mail: H.Schink

C# developer with a strong background in .Net-related technologies and multi-tier application development
Many years of experiences in logistics applications with a focus on AIDC-based solutions
Experiences in consulting and requirements engineering for different industries
Holds a degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg

Jan Sandbrink

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: J.Sandbrink

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam
Over a decade of programming experience
In-depth knowledge of C# and the .NET Framework
Clean Code enthusiast

Jens Ulferts

M.Sc. Software Engineering E-Mail: J.Ulferts

Years of experience in web application development in dynamic programming languages
Specializes in User-Centered Design
Wide consulting experience as technical project lead in global telecommunication and technology companies.
Scrum expert who successfully employed agile methods inside waterfall processes in large organisations.
Graduated from Hasso-Plattner-Institute (M.Sc. Software Engineering)

Johannes Passing

M.Sc. Software Engineering E-Mail: J.Passing

Designs clustered software systems.
Focusses on performance, quality and supportability.
Implements concurrent and scalable software components closely to the underlying operating system.
Analyses and debugs clustered systems.
Plans and conducts performance analysis.
Holds a degree in Software Engineering (M.Sc.) from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Master’s thesis: “Dynamic Tracing of Windows NT Kernel Mode Components”

Johannes Wollert

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: J.Wollert

Almost a decade of experience in software development.
Experiences with collaboration and agile development in large teams.
Aspect-oriented Software Development with Java and Eclipse.
Deep knowledge in developing complex software systems with Ruby-on-Rails.
Develops Redmine/ChiliProject-Plugins since 2009.
Erlang -enthusiast.

Julia Pape

B.Sc. International Business Administration E-Mail: J.Pape

Development and implementation of marketing, sales and public relations strategies for open source collaboration software.
Training and e-learning concepts, development of web-based trainings, screencasts and support videos.
Business administration and project support, incl. billing, (payroll) accounting and human resources.
Planning, organisation and coordination of administrative work and team personal needs.
Holds a degree in International Business Administraion (B.Sc.) from European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

Konstantin Haase

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: K.Haase

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Ruby on Rails developer since 2005.
Expert knowledge on Ruby and its internals.
Experienced in agile development techniques.
Sinatra core developer.
Contributor to Ruby on Rails, Rubinius and many other open source Ruby projects.
Taking part in the Ruby Summer of Code 2010 with “Reworking Rails live code reloading”.
Open Source Enthusiast.

Martin Czuchra

M.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: M.Czuchra

Designs and implements web applications with emphasis on client-side development.
Expert on the semantic web and microformats.
Apple iPhone developer and member of the Apple Developer Connection since 2006.
Holds a degree in Software Engineering (M.Sc.) from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Final Bachelor’s paper on web based business process modeling.

Martin Linkhorst

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: M.Linkhorst

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam
Over a decade of programming experience
Ruby on Rails Enthusiast since 2007
Deep knowledge in developing complex software systems with Ruby on Rails

Markus Kahl

Working Student E-Mail: M.Kahl

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam
Ruby on Rails and Java Enterprise developer
Java expert having nearly a decade of experience in software development
Practical in a host of different languages and technologies besides Java
Scala fancier

Michael Frister

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: M.Frister

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer.
Applies agile development techniques which lead to better software quality and faster software development.

Nils Kenneweg

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: N.Kenneweg

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam
Cryptography Enthusiast
Over a decade of web developing experience with recent focus on client-side code and modern web technologies
Application security expert
In-Depth Knowledge about firefox add-on development

Philipp Tessenow

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: P.Tessenow

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam
Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer
Applies agile development techniques which lead to better software quality and faster software development
Developer of PhidgetLab, a tool to support rapid physical prototyping
Aspect-oriented Software Development with Java and Eclipse

Romano Licker

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: R.Licker

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer.
In-depth knowledge of: internet security, operating systems and human computer interactions
Commited to the idea of modular software systems

Sebastian Schuster

Dipl.-Inform. E-Mail: S.Schuster

Designing and implementing large-scale software systems
Special interest in non-functional properties of software
Years of C# programming experience
Experiences in the financial industry and academia
Academic interest in decentralized systems

International advisory board

finnlabs is relying on a closely-knit network of distinguished experts when discussing strategic decisions. We are deeply indebted to our advisers for sharing their experience, opinions, and ideas with us.

Piet Eichholtz

Prof. Dr.

Professor of Real Estate Finance, chair of the Finance Department at Maastricht University.
Co-founder and partner at Finance Ideas.

Tom Hawkins

Chartered FCIPD

Human resources consultant.
General Manager of diesel engine manufacturing company.

Winfrid Meusel

Dr. rer. pol.

CEO of infinity³ professional services
Former CTO Telefónica Deutschland

Klaus Reichert

Dr.-Ing.

Innovation Consultant & Business Coach.
Creating concepts for innovation, structuring and accompanying innovation, product marketing.