CWI spinoff

Incorporated in 2017, Swat.engineering BV is a spinoff company of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), more precisely of CWI’s Software Analysis and Transformation research group which has a long track record in creating software inventions and solutions, and applying them to practical problems.

Our Toolbox

The open-source meta-programming language Rascal (see Rascal) and the DSL technologies developed at CWI are key components in our toolbox.

Mission

Our mission is to help solve the software problems of our clients using the best proven techniques for building, analysing and maintaining quality software.

Strong software engineering background

In addition to our metaprogramming background, we have very strong skills in software engineering and (open and closed) source software development. We are ardent and prolific contributors to open source software, and have access to a large international community of software developers. We are core contributors to the Rascal meta-programming language (see the Rascal Metaprogramming language.

Dr. Davy Landman (founder & CEO) is a software engineering researcher with extensive experience in the industry. He started his career as a professional software developer working on enterprise software at Maastricht University Medical Center. Next he obtained an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and subsequently he carried out research at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica that resulted in the PhD “Reverse engineering source code: Empirical studies of limitations and opportunities”. In 2018 his PhD was awarded the best dissertation award by the national research school IPA.

Davy is co-founder and CEO of Swat.engineering where he works both on technical problems for clients (designing and implementing DSLs, enhancing the Rascal ecosystem) and on the managerial aspects of a spin off company.

Davy Landman

Prof. dr. Paul Klint (founder & language engineer) is research fellow at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and professor emeritus in software engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Paul pioneered in meta-programming, general context-free parsing, term rewriting, domain-specific languages and software renovation and together with many others he designed and implemented substantial software systems including the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment, the ToolBus coordination architecture, and the Rascal metaprogramming language and workbench.

He is a member of the supervisory board of BIT, the bureau that has to approve all large IT projects of the Dutch government, does consulting for companies and governments worldwide, and has co-founded several companies including the Software Improvement Group (software quality inspection), SolidSands (compiler validation) and Swat.engineering (software analysis and transformation, including domain-specific languages, where he is language engineer).

Paul Klint

Prof. dr. Jurgen Vinju (founder & language engineer) is the leader of the Software Analysis and Transformation research group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and part-time full professor Automated Software Analysis in the Model Driven Software Engineering group at TU Eindhoven. Since 2000 Jurgen has been designing and implementing metaprogramming systems, their supporting data-structures and algorithms as well as their applications. This includes the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment, contributions to the Eclipse IDE Meta-tooling platform and most importantly Rascal.

Jurgen believes firmly in bringing research output to practice, and bringing industry experience into academia, by collaborating with industrial partners. He has been teaching many courses and seminars on the topics of software refactoring, debugging, source-to-source transformation, software analytics and software analysis both in academia and industry. He co-authored dozens of research papers on the topics of metaprogramming, domain-specific languages, software analysis and transformation, and empirical software engineering.

Jurgen Vinju

Karin Blankers, MSc (business developer) is Valorization Manager at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and acts primarily as an advisor and coordinator of the institute’s innovation and spin-off activities. Before joining CWI she worked for years as a senior marketing consultant for ICT companies. At Swat.engineering she will identify new business opportunities and deepen the relationship with existing clients.

Karin Blankers