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This is makandra

Our Culture and Values

When software cannot fail and the requirements are high: We develop web applications and AI solutions for business-critical processes. We stand by our clients as partners and work with our team respectfully and as equals.

Read here to find out what makes makandra who we are and what matters to us.

What Drives Us: A Passion for Good Technology

Founded in 2009, makandra is a software engineering company specializing in business-critical custom software and data-secure AI applications. A team of over 50 employees builds software from the ground up, using a test-driven approach and focusing on long-term reliability. The foundation of over 200 successful projects: more than 15 years of project experience, with every project delivered on time and within budget. makandra builds software that companies can rely on, getting it right the first time.

We prioritize project outcomes that we and our team can be proud of, and that help our clients achieve their goals. To make this happen, we focus on continuous learning and knowledge transfer, and on never standing still. The IT industry is constantly evolving, and we respond early on to new developments and opportunities with enthusiasm and curiosity.

Focus on code quality from the start

What has guided us from the very beginning is our focus on code quality. In our very first project, we decided to integrate automated tests into the software. We wanted to ensure that the applications we develop run flawlessly and provide our customers with a reliable solution. We continue to uphold this high standard to this day.

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Of our projects are on time and in budget
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What Sets Us Apart

Our Values

Our services are of high quality, both technically and organizationally. To ensure this, we are committed to certain values that guide our actions every day. All of our employees know what we stand for and what it means to be part of the makandra team.

Technical excellence

Outstanding technical results in our projects are our core principle and part of our identity. Our customers and employees know that makandra stands for the highest quality – without any technical compromises.

Integrity

Our communication is always open and honest. We take full responsibility for our tasks and their results. We honour our commitments to customers and colleagues without reservation.

Personal initiative

Whether in customer projects or internal processes: We actively look for opportunities for improvement. We are open to new developments and topics that we actively drive forward and implement on our own initiative.

Culture of growth

Personal and professional development at makandra is very important to us. We take the time to document and share all our knowledge and experience. We help each other and take responsibility early on.

Community

We promote long-term cooperation that goes beyond purely monetary performance and recognises the full value of each contribution. In challenging times, we customise working conditions and support the development of our team members. This strengthens mutual trust and the joint achievement of our goals.

Our Mission: Software that fits – built right the first time

Many software projects fail and have to be rewritten after a short time. But not with us. Our mission is to get projects right the first time and to use our clients’ resources wisely.

We’re passionate technologists. We’re driven by the joy of creating excellent software and elegant solutions to tricky problems. We take pride in thinking through a challenging problem to find a clean solution, as well as in knowing that this solution will still work and deliver real results five or ten years from now. Our greatest success is the moment when we look at an application and know: This turned out really well from a technical standpoint, and it solves exactly the problem the client brought us in to solve.

For us, excellent software is not an end in itself. It’s the foundation that ensures business-critical processes run reliably and error-free, allowing our clients to focus on what really matters to them.

We work with clean code, automated tests, and high quality standards. Our team takes responsibility for our clients’ solutions and stands by them for the long term. We work in a structured manner using a mature technology stack that we’ve been mastering for years.

Sharing knowledge and giving back

We don't keep what we learn from our projects to ourselves. We document it publicly, maintain the tools we use, and train our developers and DevOps engineers ourselves.

Open source whenever possible

We are an active part of the open-source community and maintain popular Ruby libraries such as active_type, capybara-lockstep, and Consul. With Unpoly, we have released our own framework that makes server-side applications noticeably faster.

makandra cards

Our public knowledge base contains over 4,000 cards featuring best practices for Ruby on Rails, Next.js,local AI, and web development. We document what we learn in our projects rather than leaving it solely in the minds of individuals.

Member of the Rails Foundation

As member of the Rails Foundation, we support the ongoing development of the framework on which much of our work is based. We not only benefit from Rails, but we also try to give back.

Trainee program

We train our young talent in-house. Whether you're fresh out of college or changing careers, you'll learn the ropes during a four- to six-month trainee program before working on your first client project.

makandra academy

At makandra academy, we share our expertise in Rails, on-premises AI, and DevOps. Companies book training programs for their own teams, tailored to their specific technology needs and questions.

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Expanded executive management since 2025
Since 2025, Fabian Rimpl has served as co-managing director of makandra alongside Dr. Thomas Eisenbarth. Since then, the two have been jointly managing makandra's affairs. You can find all the details in the article on our blog.
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