Innovate,
don’t imitate.

We develop custom tools that can be tightly integrated into your existing tool chains. That’s why you came here, but how we do it is why our customers stay for the long term.

Advising.
Shaping.
Integrating.

Pioneering is our default

What drives us is our curiosity about unknown territory. Thatʼs why weʼre not satisfied with merely staying up to date about technologies in our field. We also develop tomorrowʼs solutions ourselves.

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Our code is open source

All of our tools and frameworks are open source. For us, this means that we can proactively pursue exciting topics and we also benefit from the contributions of the community. For you this means: Bye bye license fees and hello, full transparency!

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We dont believe in one-size-fits-all solutions

Ironically, thatʼs why all our projects start the same way: with listening. What we like best is to get a thorough insight into the problems and challenges that brought you to us.

Bullshit is not part of our vocabulary

TypeFox team members at work

This saves us time, which we are happy to invest in making our cooperation with you as pleasant as possible. And speaking of honesty: We hope you see it the same way.

What others say about us:

Smart foxes come in packs.
Meet your amplifiers!

Dr. Miro Spönemann

Dr. Miro Spönemann

General Manager

Miro joined TypeFox as a software engineer right after the company was established. Five years later he stepped up as a co-leader and is now eager to shape the future direction and strategy. Miro earned a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) at the University of Kiel and is constantly pursuing innovation about engineering tools.

Daniel Dietrich

Daniel Dietrich

General Manager

Meet Daniel Dietrich, co-lead of TypeFox and a Señor Software Engineer & Architect, not only because of his mustache. Beside an extensive experience in various teams and industries, Daniel earned widespread recognition in the open source community and inspired developers across the globe.

Katharina Brinkhaus

Katharina Brinkhaus

Assistant

As part of the admin team, responsible for internal projects and personal staff of our chief barking managers, Katy juggles all organizational tasks and helps the team to getting their job done by taking care of all the small challenges of our daily lives. Katy actually has a master degree in furniture design and initially she thought of Language engineering being something to do with screwdrivers.

Benjamin F. Wilson

Benjamin F. Wilson

Software Engineer

Ben is an eclectic language engineering enthusiast. Proficient in full-stack development and well-versed in type systems. He is passionate about software architecture, analysis, and employing effective solution patterns. When he’s not at work, you can find him building tools & electronics with recycled parts.

Christian Schneider

Christian Schneider

Software Engineer

Christian is a seasoned DSL enthusiast with a decade of expertise in language tooling and graphical visualizations. While striving for innovative and sustainable solutions, he still pays attention to details. Quite often you’ll find Christian nearby the sea, with the seagulls providing a pleasant ambience to his meetings.

Dennis Hübner

Dennis Hübner

Software Engineer

Dennis is a full-stack senior software engineer with additional specialization in language engineering and IDE tools development. He really enjoys his job, knowing that through software, he can make other people’s lives more interesting and their work easier.

Dr. Guillaume Fontorbe

Dr. Guillaume Fontorbe

Software Engineer

Avid learner, Guillaume is always looking for new challenges to take on. At TypeFox, he focuses on building visualization tools, DSLs, and IDE extensions. In addition, he also actively takes part in the development of various TypeFox’s open source projects.

Dr. Insa Fuhrmann

Dr. Insa Fuhrmann

Software Engineer

Insa is an expert project manager at TypeFox. She leads with deep domain knowledge, oversight and empathy. She always drives the conceptual discussion on complex topics in her remit. She is avidly interested in languages and tooling for safety critical domains. Her scientific work on these topics earned her a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) of Kiel University.

Irina Artemeva

Irina Artemeva

Software Engineer

Irina is deeply passionate about programming language and compiler theory. In her efforts to put theory into practice, she promotes LLVM within TypeFox and spearheads projects aimed at DSL compilation using Langium and LLVM. Outside of the digital realm, she enjoys playing guitar, climbing, and making origami.

Jan Bicker

Jan Bicker

Software Engineer

That’s Jan. A restless, creative and spiritual mind. Eager to learn, start and implement new things. Loves Typescript to tweak frontends. Furthermore he is a passionate composer, lyricist and producer of various electronic music styles.

Johannes Meier

Johannes Meier

Software Engineer

Solving recurring problems in software engineering only once is Johannes’ main motivation, first at university with developing, publishing and teaching various approaches for modeling and programming, now at TypeFox with pushing open source frameworks for facilitating developers work.

Jonah Iden

Jonah Iden

Software Engineer

From dev-Tools and IDEs, to apps, over legacy financial software and embedded systems, Jonah loves developing software and delving deep into complex systems. He came to TypeFox looking for new interesting challenges and is now taking deep dives into Theia and Sprotty. When not at work you can sometimes meet him on the smaller stages in north germany performing with his metal band.

Kai Salmen

Kai Salmen

Software Engineer

Adapting new technologies, solving problems, and making things work well together with the team of people defines best what Kai’s work has always been about. From 3D computer graphics to space ground control systems and now language engineering tools he acquired a diverse skill set over the last twenty years. Working fully remote lets Kai combine family and work in the most positive way.

Mark Sujew

Mark Sujew

Software Engineer

Mark is the driving force behind a lot of TypeFox’s open-source engagement. He leads the development of Langium and is a very active member of the Theia IDE development team. Away from his day job, he enjoys bartending and music, is an avid Dungeons & Dragons player, and works as a computer science lecturer at a Hamburg University.

Markus Rudolph

Markus Rudolph

Language Engineer

Markus likes to be creative: writing programs, drawing or scripting song texts. He normally has more ideas than time to implement them. But his secret passion is the subject of language engineering: He is founder of an initiative called »Language Benders« for people who want to learn more about creating languages.

Edda & Dietje

Edda & Dietje

Chief Barking Manager

These two »racing« sausages are currently our chief barking managers. They still have to grow into their actual job as feel-good managers — quite a challenge with a final size of 20 cm.

Would you like to become our favorite customer?

Let us develop open source for you! This way we can invest in new and visionary projects and ensure sustainability and constant innovation. Weʼre happy to bring in new functionality, assist with maintenance, and aid with general networking among the open source community.

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