LeanNet was founded by enthusiastic PhD students from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. During their studies within the EIT Digital Doctoral School, they got inspired to start a business based on their sound technological knowledge in order to make an impact to the ICT innovation of the world. In November 2020 adesso acquired a majority shareholdership in LeanNet, therefore the company is now a member of the adesso Group.
Udo is the charmain of LeanNet and the managing director of adesso Hungary. He is an experienced C-level executive with 20+ years in senior management positions (CEO, Vice President or Director) at innovative institutions like Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories, EIT ICT Labs Germany, and EIT Digital, all of which he has co-founded in Berlin. Before that he has held long-term research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and Siemens AG, as well as six years spent as a mangement and technology consultant for the IT and Communications industry. Udo holds a PhD from Technical University of Munich and is also Research Professor of Innovation and Information Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Informatics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest as well as the Director of its Institute of Industry-Academia Innovation.
After two years as a network system engineer, Péter decided to pursue a PhD degree in telecommunication at BME. He spent six years in researching the upcoming networking technologies and now he is dedicated to bring these trends to the market. He recently defended his PhD thesis at both BME and EIT Digital. Péter has a Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification. Currently he is responsible for finding the right technological directions for LeanNet.
Dávid has recently finished his PhD in telecommunication at BME. Since he also finished the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Doctoral School organized by EIT Digital, he decided to switch into business and co-found LeanNet together with Péter. Dávid is now both a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. Currently he is responsible for business and software development of LeanNet.
Attila previously worked with Big Data and Hadoop at Hortonworks. Now he decided to work together with Péter and Dávid to raise LeanNet's productivity to a new level. Currently he is responsible for software development. In his spare time he also working on his PhD in telecommunication at BME.
János has hands-on experience with both Software Engineering and Machine Learning. Before working together with Attila at Hortonworks/Cloudera on the Hadoop Ecosystem, he has been working as a Data Scientist. János is also a Certified Kubernetes Administrator. He is adding Machine Learning to the skillset of LeanNet.