About us

Passion, Quality & Efficiency

"KnpLabs" (coming from Code 'N' Play and canapé) is about building something different.

KnpLabs is centered around 3 values:

Passion
Everything is going smoother when you work with passionate people who cares about what they're doing
Quality
We love quality. Testing, best practices, methodologies… these big little things will do the difference when you want to release a website in 1 month − I mean, *really* release the website in 1 month.
Efficiency
We work with the best. It's a bit elitist, but that's also why they work at KnpLabs.

Our international team for international projects

Our clients are startup companies from New-York City, San Francisco, Paris, Tel Aviv, London, Vienna or Zurich.

KnpLabs only works with the best developers - whatever their country or language.

That's why we favor creating several teams, small and quick to react:

  • in Montréal (Canada)
  • in Nantes (France)
  • in Nashville (USA)
  • in Kiev, Kharkov (Ukraine)
  • in Gdańsk, Łódź, Warsaw (Poland)

The KnpLabs story

These days, most agencies hire anybody. They make them work a lot, kill innovation, don't really care about your project and probably have hidden a picture of IE6 in their wallet.

We've always thought that there is another way to build a company: caring about people and projects.

That's why we decided to quit our jobs back in 2009 and create KnpLabs: to dig out the best developers, bring them together, introduce a great quality of life at work and find the most interesting projects to feed them. And it did work!

April 2009
Paris, France. Matthieu and Laetitia create KnpLabs.
March 2010
KnpLabs opens an office in Nantes, France − why? Because there's a great quality of life there. And we love that.
April 2011
KnpLabs opens an office in Nashville, Tennessee. Because Nashville is a wonderful city in the US with two wonderful managers: Ryan and Leanna.
November 2011
KnpLabs offers Behat and Symfony trainings in Japan.
January 2012
KnpLabs opens an office in Kiev, Ukraine. Because there are a lot of start-up stuff going on in Ukraine right now.
February 2012
KnpLabs offers training, consulting and development in Poland.
May 2012
KnpLabs founders open an office in Montreal (Canada).

Your contacts at KnpLabs

  • Matthieu Bontemps − Founder & Symfony2 developer

    Matthieu is the company founder. He thinks, discovers, improves and motivates.

    Eager for fun startup projects, a fan of quality, he selects the best projects and recruits the best developers to insure development will be done in great conditions — for the client and the team's satisfaction.

    He also develops for a lot of Symfony2 OpenSource or internal projects.

    He has a Masters in Engineering from INSA School of Lyon, a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Birmingham, and is a former partner and lead-developer at Jiwa.

  • Ryan Weaver − Head of KnpLabs US, Partner & Symfony2 Consultant

    Ryan, American consultant and trainer extraordinaire.
    And a CEO who rocks.

    He loves quality, good practices, and writes unit test cases so he can sleep better at night.

    Ryan is a Symfony core member, in charge of the framework documentation.

  • Leanna Pelham − KnpLabs US Partner & Project Manager

    Leanna is that project manager who always finds solutions with spectacular optimism.

    Technical project manager, Leanna is our American partner and efficiently manages KnpLabs teams and clients on US projects.

    She also organizes Symfony2 and Behat training sessions and talks throughout the US.

  • Grégoire Hubert − Head of KnpLabs Nantes & Consultant / Trainer

    Grégoire is the wise man who guarantees that every problem gets its solution.

    Proud geek, pragmatic and experienced technical consultant, Grégoire is also a teaching consultant and hosts training sessions as rivetting as a one-man-show.

    Grégoire has a Masters in Engineering and more than 10 years experience in development, training and auditing - at Sensio Labs and freelancing.

  • Eve Vinclair-Berkemeier − Agile Project Manager

    Eve is our technical and functional project manager and agile methodologies lover.

    At first junior developer and later lead web developer, she's gotten hooked by project management and agility — and she's now been perfecting her skills in this domain for 5 years.

    A German native, Eve is our prime representative for Swiss, German and Austrian clients!

  • Pierre Hurtevent − Technical Project Manager & Rails developer

    Pierre is a Project Manager who loves getting his agile and efficient hands right into code.

    Pierre is a passionate agility fan who knows how to translate your most ambitious ideas into ready for development user stories.

    He is also a Ruby preacher and wanted to launch a Rails Department at KnpLabs, which is now done!

  • Laetitia Wagner − Founder & Partner

    Laetitia is the ideal pragmatic partner:
    she channels, selects and implements KnpLabs's numerous ideas.

    She has an MBA from ISC Paris School of Management, and was first an auditor and consultant, then project manager, she was the one to convince KnpLabs to use agile methodologies — which has been a great success.

  • Geoffrey Bachelet − KnpLabs Montreal CTO

    Geoffrey is a manager who writes code,
    and writes it damn well.

    Possessing both impressive technical knowledge and a high expertise in methodology, Geoffrey offers KnpLabs new ideas, new processes, unbreakable enthusiasm… and a presence in the lovely city of Montreal !