Marc Philipp

Software engineer, JUnit team lead, Java Champion

Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Software Engineer • Java Champion • Open Source Enthusiast • Conference Speaker

Experience

  • Mitgründer at TestLens
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • JUnit (14 yrs 9 mos)
    • Team/Project Lead
      Jan 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

      Together with the newly formed JUnit team, we released several milestones and release candidates leading up to the JUnit 5 release in September 2017. Since then, numerous feature and patch releases have been published. Starting in September 2024, I'm working full-time on the project with support from the Sovereign Tech Fund.

    • Maintainer
      Aug 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Successfully completed the "JUnit Lambda" crowfunding campaign in 2015 and started what has become JUnit 5.

    • Contributor
      Oct 2011 - Jul 2012 · 10 mos

      Submitted my first PRs to JUnit trying to help out a project I was very enthusiastic about.

  • Gradle Inc. (6 yrs)
    • Senior Principal Software Engineer
      Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Principal Software Engineer
      Jan 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Apr 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • LogMeIn (Karlsruhe)
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Mar 2016 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Agile Software Engineer, Trainer/Coach at andrena objects ag
    Sep 2008 - Feb 2016 · 7 yrs 6 mos