Our Story
PostSharp was created by Gael Fraiteur in 2004 and he still owns an absolute majority of shares in the company.
As a privately-owned and organically-grown company, free from the unpredictable moods of external investors, we are here to stay.
2004
Gael gets bored at work and at home, so he creates PostSharp as an open-source side project. His vision is to create a platform for post-processing of .NET assemblies during compilation.
2006
First consulting revenues from PostSharp. Gael tours Europe as a successful open-source project leader. Sweet days of fame and still limited responsibilities.
2008
Gael now works 3 days per week on PostSharp, which is still free and open-source.
PostSharp 1.0 RTM is released after 4 years of work.
2009
The open-source project outgrows Gael's ability to maintain it in his "free" time.
He creates the company PostSharp Technologies and starts working on a commercial version.
2010
PostSharp 2.0, the first commercial version, is released.
The company gets immediately profitable and hires its first marketing dude.
2013
After lots of trials and errors, we're having success in hiring a developer: Alex. Still part of the team today, he's known as the async guy.
PostSharp 3.0 is released and introduces pattern libraries.
2014
With a team of 7 and smooth processes, Gael can finally take vacation without his notebook.
PostSharp 4.0 brings threading models, a true innovation to OOP.
2016
PostSharp wins a bronze medal in Visual Studio Magazine Reader's Choice Awards for the category Software Design, Frameworks and Modeling Tools.
2017
PostSharp 5.0 finally catches up again with the C# and .NET teams and is again awarded 3rd place in VS Magazine Reader's Choice Awards.
2018
PostSharp becomes the #1 highest-rated Visual Studio Extension.
Gael still hopes to get bored again, some day.
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