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We are on a mission to build a web without loading times.

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OUR STORY

Bringing web performane research to practice

2012

Doctoral thesis

Speed Kit CEO Dr. Felix Gessert explored the web performance impact of caching technologies during his doctoral thesis at the University of Hamburg.

2013

Performance research

Our team received the renowned EXIST business startup grant from the German government to fund the complex and innovative web performance research.

2014

Baqend launch

Before working on Speed Kit, our team launched a backend-as-a-service product called Baqend and further explored the business potential of caching technologies.

2015

First employees

Our tech-driven company started to grow quickly by hiring talented computer science students and graduates from the University of Hamburg.

2017

Speed Kit launch

With the release of the innovative browser technology called "service workers" in 2017, our company pivoted from a backend-as-a-service to a software-as-a-service for website acceleration.

FAST FACTS

Our impact

Speed Kit is the #1 website acceleration software in the world.

10,000+

Accelerated websites

300+ million

Accelerated users

$10 billion

Accelerated annual revenue

OUR TEAM

Meet the crew

A passionate group of people that love fast websites.

Dr. Felix Gessert
CEO & Co-Founder
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Florian Bücklers
CTO & Co-Founder
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Hannes Kuhlmann
VP Engineering & Co-Founder
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Erik Witt
VP Product
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Stefan Puriss
Chief Marketing Officer
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Negin Amindarolzarbi
Marketing & Event Manager
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Jan Göhmann
UX Designer
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Denise Wimmer
People Manager
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Simon Head
Head of People
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Roozbeh Ghavipanjeh
IT Product Manager
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Youmna Elghandoor
Full-Stack Developer
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Torge Willers
Business Development Manager
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Tobias Baldauf
Web Performance Lead
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Tobias Meckel
Senior Business Development Manager
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Thies Wrage
Head of Business Development
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Tibor Jacob Braun
Account Executive
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Theodor Bajusz
Performance Engineer
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Stephanie Knapp
Business Development Manager
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Sven Decken
Head of Solution Engineering
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Shinji Ono
Full-Stack Developer
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Otito Ukeje
Business Development
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Paul Basnier
Senior Data Analyst
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Mykola Savitskyi
Data Scientist
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Ole Nitschke
Junior Customer Success Manager
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Moritz Seedorf
Head of Operations
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Moritz Mahler
Business Development
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Marian Schaub
Full-Stack Developer
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Markus Bachmann
Software Developer
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Marcel Sander
Quality Assurance Engineer
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Ludwig Benecke
Business Development
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Marc-Antoine Segui
Business Development Manager
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Lars Lornsen
Senior Account Executive
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Kevin Twesten
Team Lead Speed Kit
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Julian Schenkemeyer
Team Lead Frontend
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Kazi Mostafa Shahriar
Working Student
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Jonas Wolff
Business Development Manager
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Jörn Christopher Domnik
Team Lead Backend
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Johann-Martin Rücker
Junior Customer Insights Data Analyst
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Imen Tbini
Product Integration Engineer
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Frederic Trommer
Senior Customer Success Manager
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Fabian Krumbholz
Web Performance Principal
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Frances Bärecke
Junior Customer Success Manager
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Dereck Mildenstein
Junior Sales Development Representative
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Benjamin Wehner
Senior Performance Engineer
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Brian Louis Ramirez
Web Performance Engineer
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Ben Deger
Business Development Manager
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Bendte Wehner
Junior Frontend Developer
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Antonis Kotsis
Backend Software Engineer
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Andrea Verlicchi
Web Performance Engineer
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