Lars Vogel is the founder, CTO and CEO of the vogella GmbH company.

He is one of the core developers of the Eclipse platform project and a contributor to several other Eclipse projects. He loves to share his knowledge by writing online tutorials and books and is a regular speaker at international conferences.

For the customers of the vogella GmbH he delivers development, consulting, coaching and training in the areas of Eclipse, Android and Git. These customers include Fortune 100 corporations as well as individual developers.

Lars is a nominated Java Champion since 2012. In 2010 he received the Eclipse Top Contributor Award and in 2012 the Eclipse Top Newcomer Evangelist Award.