True experts, in winning combinations.

finnlabs’ success factor is the knowledge and experience of the people working together. Building on a solid software engineering education from leading German computer science schools like the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI), Potsdam, the finnlabs engineers are constantly accumulating detailed expert-knowledge and deepening ‘their’ specialisation. Mixed teams provide the set of capabilities that meet the clients’ needs – and beyond. The team’s knowledge and capabilities are more than the sum of the individual parts.

Excellent communication skills are key to efficient project management, especially when building complex systems with many dependencies and extended functionalities. The team cannot only write great software, it can ‘talk’ software. Project communication is a true asset of finnlabs.

The team.

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

• Management consultant. Several years of experience gained in international project environments.
• Focus: Change management, requirements management, project management and rollout-coordination, business process development.
• Industry experience in telecommunication and technology companies.
• Accounting and consolidation. Several years of SAP experience: SEM BCS/BW and FI/CO.
• 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.
• Redmine development lead at finnlabs with deep knowledge in setup, hosting, customizing and plugin development.
• Active contributor of the Redmine open source community.
• Holds a degree in Software Engineering (B.Sc.) from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.
• Bachelor thesis on in-memory databases.

 

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.

 

Felix Geller

B.Sc. Computer Science E-Mail: F.Geller

• Focuses on data transformation and application development.
• Holds a degree in Computer Science (B.Sc.) from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
• Major qualifying project in collaboration with and conducted at MTA Sztaki Research Institute, Budapest: “Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems”
• Currently studying at Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam.

 

Konstantin Haase

Working Student 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.
• Contributor to Rubinius, Sinatra 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

Working Student 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

Working Student 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

 

Thore Becker

Working Student E-Mail: T.Becker

• Trainee studying software design hands-on.
• New skills in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery.

 

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.

 

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.

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Tom Hawkins

Chartered FCIPD

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

 

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Winfrid Meusel

Dr. rer. pol.

• CEO of infinity³ professional services
• Former CTO Telefónica Deutschland

 

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Klaus Reichert

Dr.-Ing.

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