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.

Gregor Schmidt

M.Sc. Software Engineering E-Mail: G.Schmidt

Develops complex web applications in dynamic programming languages.
Specialist for extensive JavaScript-based browser applications.
Structuring and optimisation of large software platforms. Assures outstanding maintainability and extensibility following the approach only to build software he would be happy to manage for the next 10 years.
Evangelises web standards to ensure accessibility for all users.
Holds a degree in Software Engineering (M.Sc.) from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.

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.

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”

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)

Holger Just

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: H.Just

Extensive experience in designing and operating high-performance systems covering all aspects like clustering, load-balancing, monitoring, and backup.
10 years of experience in server administration and hosting.
ChilliProject development lead at finnlabs with deep knowledge in setup, hosting, customizing and plugin development.
Core committer in the ChiliProject open source community, core team member of Redmine before that.
Holds a degree in Software Engineering (B.Sc.) from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.

Martin Czuchra

B.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 (B.Sc.) from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Final Bachelor’s paper on web based business process modeling.

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.

Tim Felgentreff

B.Sc. in IT Systems Engineering E-Mail: T.Felgentreff

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer.
Experiences with collaboration and agile development in large teams.
Behaviour driven development enthusiast.
Aspect-oriented Software Development with Java and Eclipse.
Contributor to Squeak Trunk and Gnu Smalltalk.

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

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.

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.

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

Stephan Eckardt

Working Student E-Mail: S.Eckardt

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer since 2005.
Experienced in agile development techniques in large and small teams.
Committed to high-quality software and user centered design.

Felix Schäfer

Working Student E-Mail: F.Schäfer

Ruby and Ruby on Rails developer since 2009.
Core committer in the ChiliProject open source community, core team member of Redmine before that.
Seasoned unix user and administrator with 5 years of experience in server administration.
Lead administrator of the student unions targeted project platform fachschaften.org.
Currently studying Computer Science at the Dortmund University of Technology.
Open Source Enthusiast.

Dominic Bräunlein

Working Student E-Mail: D.Braeunlein

Currently studying IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
C# and VB developer.
Experienced in server administration (Microsoft environment)
Experience in agile development techniques.

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

Nadine Roßa

Designer E-Mail: N.Roßa

In charge of all interface-designs.
Focus: Web design, screen design, illustration, icon design and anything else that meets the client’s eyes.
Several years of experience in major multimedia agencies, national and international.
Record of serving clients in telecommunication, medical and consumer goods industries.
Nadine holds a degree in design (Diplom-Designer) from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), Berlin.

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.