We are lenses.io

We’re a group of (nearly*) 100 engineers, designers, developers, data analysts, tinkerers, writers and open-source contributors.
And we’re big into democratizing data technologies.
That’s why we developed Lenses.io (Lenses-eye-oh) to help enterprises simplify their operations by making data work for teams, not the other way around.

Discover Lenses

We are lenses.io

We’re a group of (nearly*) 100 engineers, designers, developers, data analysts, tinkerers, writers and open-source contributors.
And we’re big into democratizing data technologies.
That’s why we developed Lenses.io (Lenses-eye-oh) to help enterprises simplify their operations by making data work for teams, not the other way around.

Discover Lenses

Solving software complexity

Since the dawn of time (before software, there was only darkness)‌ there has been one constant:‌ businesses want to build software more easily.

This is a goal that every engineer should support wholeheartedly. However, the truth is, we often don’t.

It’s not intentional, but over time, we get waylaid by unforeseen complexities in building apps and train ourselves to seek out edge cases.

One step at a time

Our company started life as a cluster of data engineers called Landoop in 2016; Christina, Antonios, Stefan and Andrew. They were early adopters contributing to open-source technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes &‌ Hadoop at companies like Barclays, ING and Marks & Spencer.

But data projects were starting well, then flat-lining. Why? Too many projects had been too complex to manage, and the disconnect continued to grow between engineering and the business.

Despite endless days and sleepless nights, projects were taking months if not years to get to production.

Reimagining data operations

So Christina (CPO) and Antonios (CEO) re-imagined Data Engineering a decade on. What if everyone could manage their data operations whilst using a range of complex, powerful technologies (like Kafka and Kubernetes) without understanding each of them in impossible detail?

They made Lenses.io. One product, taking the best bits of their open source contributions into a single developer and operations experience. A data operations portal that would allow developers to focus on helping their business go real-time.