Sven Efftinge manages the itemis branch in Kiel and engages himself there with domain specific languages, generator development and eclipse technologies. He is an eclipse committer and is responsible for the Xtext-framework and architect of the Xpand-language family (also known as openArchitectureWare).

Sven Efftinge regularly speaks at software conferences, writes professional articles and is co-author of the book “Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung”, (Model-Driven Software Development) (published at dpunkt-Verlag).

Peter Friese is a software architect for itemis in Kiel. He is a committer for the open source projects openArchitectureWare, Eclipse, FindBugs, and AndroMDA. Peter is the author of various articles on the topics of Eclipse, Spring, and model-driven software development and gives lectures on these themes at software conferences.

Dr. Jan Köhnlein works as a software architect and coach for itemis in Kiel. He is an expert for model-based software development and holds workshops and lectures on the topics of Eclipse, EMF, GMF and modeling tools.

Dr. Jan Köhnlein leads the open-source projects EMF Index and GMFTools. Furthermore he is also a committer in the Eclipse projects Xtext, Xpand and MWE as well as for openArchitectureWare.

After completing his studies in mathematics at the University of Hamburg, Dr. Jan Köhnlein went on to do a doctorate at the TU Hamburg-Harburg in computer science. Before he reinforced the itemis team, he worked at Gentleware AG among other things as a consultant and coach in the field of modeling.

Karsten Thoms has been employed by itemis AG for over 6 years as a software architect and coach. His main focus is in the development of individual enterprise systems. Especially in the field of model driven software development, he has made a name for himself as an expert.

He has been active in the openArchitectureWare project for several years now, he is project manager of the Fornax platform, an Eclipse committer and founder of the Fit4oaw project. He regularly passes on his experiences in customer projects, at conferences and as a trainer.