Founder-led since 2013.
Benedek Farkas and Zoltán Lehóczky still own and lead the company they founded. Clients know who is accountable, and long-running platforms do not have to be rediscovered after every change of vendor personnel.
A long-term engineering team for platforms that cannot stand still.
When an important platform needs to change, you need people who can understand what is already there, take responsibility for the result, and keep the organization working throughout the change.
Who we are
Responsibility stays close to the work.
Lombiq was founded in Budapest in 2013 by Benedek Farkas and Zoltán Lehóczky. From the start we set out to do one thing well: build and look after the web platforms that organizations cannot afford to get wrong. The company is still led by its founders today.
Our engineers develop and operate client platforms, contribute to the open technologies they run on, and teach the teams who use them. Project leads stay involved in the engineering, so decisions do not disappear between sales, delivery, and support.
Lombiq is a remote-first team, and every client engagement is run remotely. Our established working practices keep decisions documented and responsibilities clear, even across organizations and time zones.
Why Lombiq
Evidence that outlasts a sales presentation.
You can inspect the work behind our claims: public code, maintained engineering tools, and long-running client platforms. Our open-source foundation avoids platform license fees and proprietary vendor lock-in.
Open-source reduces dependency.
Open-source software can be inspected, extended, and hosted without tying clients to a proprietary vendor. We use and contribute to open-source projects across .NET, including Orchard Core, where we can investigate platform problems and help fix them at the source.
Our engineering work is open to inspection.
Lombiq maintains more than 200 open-source modules in the Orchard Core ecosystem. They include tools for testing, operations, and recurring application needs that we also encounter in client work.
Client evidence
Ready when a deadline leaves little room for overhead.
Topcon Aptix brought Lombiq into an active delivery with a tight release deadline. Their account of the work shows what senior, hands-on support should feel like.
“The Lombiq team was able to ramp up quickly and help us meet a tight release deadline. The developers were knowledgeable and able to take instruction without a lot of overhead from our team.”
The team
Meet the people behind the work.
A small, senior international team. Many of us have built web platforms together for over a decade, and we all stay hands-on with the work we ship.
Zoltán Lehóczky
Co-founded Lombiq in 2013. Zoltán focuses on the company's direction, its services, and its research work.
While studying Computer Science and Engineering at Óbuda University, he worked as a freelancer and consultant before starting the company. His main engineering expertise is in ASP.NET Core MVC. He is a longtime core contributor to Orchard Core, and much of his time goes to Lombiq's own sites, its service offering, and research. Received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for his work in open-source.
Benedek Farkas
Benedek primarily focuses on operations, marketing, and business development, drawing on his background as a full-stack developer and software architect delivering complex web applications for our clients.
Since the age of six, he has been interested in computing, then started working with web development during high school. The real turning point came at university, where he built lasting professional relationships and collaborations.
In 2013, Benedek co-founded Lombiq Technologies with the goal of creating a team (and a professional community) where people can truly thrive, inspired by both the strengths and limitations of educational systems as well as their own scientific interests. Open source is not just a technological choice for him, but a mindset that defines their company culture.
You can contact Benedek on GitHub and LinkedIn. Received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for his work in open-source.
Márk Bartha
Lombiq's first team member, with us since 2013. A senior developer who leads client projects and runs training.
Márk started programming at twelve, met .NET at Óbuda University, and spent time in industrial automation before Zoltán introduced him to Orchard 1. He joined as Lombiq's first team member in 2013 and now leads client projects and teaches other teams. Away from the keyboard he practices mindfulness and yoga, and spends time hiking.
Gábor Domonkos
A software engineer with us since 2014 who also leads Lombiq University, our internal training.
Gábor's interest in IT started with Turbo Pascal at twelve, and along the way he built Hungarian dubs for the Doom games. He studied Computer Science at Óbuda University and interned at Microsoft Hungary in 2012, building Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps, with a thesis on Azure and multiplatform development. He joined Lombiq in the summer of 2014.
Milán Keszthelyi
A software engineer who moved from finance systems into modern web development, with a university focus on image processing and robotics.
Milán was drawn to computers and games early and took a specialized programming class in high school. He studied Information Technology Engineering at Óbuda University, picking up C#, object-oriented design, ethical hacking, and mobile development, and specialized in image processing and robotics. His first job put him on SQL and WinForms in finance. He keeps active at the gym and running.
István Germán
Our office manager, bringing decades of cross-sector experience in engineering, finance, and management.
István holds a Master's in Civil Engineering and a qualification as an engineer-economist in foreign trade. Over the decades he has worked as a sales engineer for construction firms, a banker in Austrian and German branches, and a managing director of real-estate and trading companies. He brings that broad experience to keeping Lombiq running, and enjoys reading novels in several languages, history, politics, swimming, and skiing.
Sára El-Saig
A self-taught software engineer who fell for C# early and specialized in embedded and mobile systems.
Sára taught herself to program, starting with QuickBasic in primary school, and has been fond of C# ever since. She has worked with WPF, ASP.NET, XNA, JavaScript, and Python, and specialized at university in embedded and mobile systems, including Orchard 1 coursework. Her spare time goes to films, audiobooks on long walks and rides, miniature painting and wargaming, game mods, Arduino, and 3D printing.
Ádám Jakab
A software engineer who works across the stack, from C# to React, and stays curious about new technology.
Ádám has been interested in IT since childhood and studies Software Information Technology at Eszterházy Károly University. He has worked with C#, Android and Java, HTML, CSS and JavaScript, PHP, and React, with a particular interest in video games and web development. Outside work he plays guitar, listens to rock and metal, and spends time with friends and films.
Szabolcs Deme
A software engineer whose passion for C# started in high school and grew through a Computer Science degree.
Szabolcs came to programming through computer games, dabbling in video editing and Photoshop before taking it up seriously in high school. C# was his first language and quickly became his focus. He earned an advanced IT certificate and a Bachelor's from Eötvös Loránd University, building a tower-defense game for his thesis. He unwinds with films, games, and cardio.
Miloš Jovanović
A software engineer who joined from Serbia in 2024 after moving from PHP into the .NET world.
Miloš started building websites at thirteen with online builders, then moved to custom development when those tools ran out of room. He took PHP courses in Belgrade and taught himself the rest online, before switching to the .NET ecosystem around 2020 and building his own sites with Orchard Core. He joined Lombiq in August 2024 and believes in continuous learning. His hobbies include 3D modeling, football and baseball, and online chess.
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One monthly update from Lombiq.
Each issue connects recent projects with the engineering decisions and open-source work behind them.
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