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. His current focus is the modernization of long-lived Java and Eclipse codebases with AI agents, backed by tooling that validates every change against the compiler rather than trusting the model. 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.