Meet the Team

The Lanedians come from different backgrounds but collectively unite with the love and interest for open source software. If you would like to follow recent developments in their blogs, read the Lanedo Planet.

Kristian Rietveld

Lead Engineer

Kris is a long time contributor to the GTK+ project. In the beginning with focus on GtkTreeView (which he still loves to hack on and improve), but these days everywhere help is needed such as the icon, text view, tooltips infrastructure and port of GTK+ to the Mac. Kris is a PhD student in Computer Science at Leiden University and likes to put his expertise to work at Lanedo.

Mitch Natterer

Principal Engineer

Mitch has been an Imendio/Lanedo hacker since 2005. Before that, he spent some years programming user interfaces and applications for digital TV set top-boxes. In his free time he hacks on GIMP which he has co-maintained since 2001.

Carlos Garnacho

Senior Engineer

Born and raised in Madrid. He's been involved in Free Software since late 2001, mainly in GNOME as a contributor to many modules throughout the stack and as a maintainer of gnome-system-tools maintainer and system-tools backend on freedesktop.org. More recently Carlos has been involved in the XInput 2.x and CSS themeing work for GTK+ as well as being a core maintainer of the Tracker project. He also likes playing the guitar.

Christian Kellner

Lead Engineer

Christian Kellner is an old GNOME hacker and doing his PhD in Computational Neuroscience. Christian is from Passau, Germany. He started his career as a GNOME Code Monkey by maintaining GnomeVFS in 2004. He is still the maintaining GNOME’s GIO/Nautilus projects in addition to Evolution’s Calendar part. If that still leaves some free time, he is a passionate paraglider pilot and mountain hiker.

Aleksander Morgado

Senior Engineer

Aleksander Morgado is a Spanish Telecommunications Engineer with experience in several areas, such as Antivirus & Network Security, Satellite Orbit Determination systems and VoIP servers. In his free time he likes to contribute to the GNU Project, as a developer and co-maintainer of the GNU PDF package.

Lionel Dricot

Engineering Coordinator

Lionel is a Belgian geek that studied computer science and artificial intelligence at Louvain-la-Neuve university. His main interests are user experience, innovation and chocolate. When he's not in front of his computer, creating new GTG bugs, he's mostly found swimming without air 30m deep in the cold water of Belgian lakes.

Manuela Volkmer

Executive Secretary

Manuela lives in the most beautiful town of Europe: Hamburg. She is a secretary with passion. After family and work her band is the most important thing for her. Manuela is currently working part-time at the offices in Hamburg with Tim.