Have you noticed Greplin looking a little nicer lately? More modern? Maybe even... glamorous?

This is because, after a year of searching, we have finally found Greplin's first designer: Matthaeus Krenn. 

Matthaeus began his studies as an Industrial Designer in Austria, but quickly turned his clean and minimal design aesthetic into a degree in Interaction Design and Technology. He's worked for IDEO, frog design and even Microsoft. He loves cheese pizza, sachertorte, and schooling us in Unreal Tournament. He's been here 2 months you'll see more and more of his new designs across our website and iPhone app soon. And check out the awesome t-shirt he designed for our 2nd all night hackathon. That's him on the left with his arms crossed looking very cranky we haven't eaten the cake yet.

Matthaeus isn't our only new hire this quarter. Also joining the team is recent grad Pratik Tandel. In the last year he's interned at Facebook making your friend's photos load faster, completed his B.E. in Computer Engineering and done a cross continent move from Mumbai to SF. He's a bit shy, but he's slowly warming up to our office dogs, Eva and Ada. We even managed to convince him to join us for a misfit Thanksgiving dinner, although he did admit it wasn't spicy enough. Pratik is now writing code to index a new service. We'll announce that soon, but for now we can assure you it'll fulfill a big user request! Here you can see his why-are-you-taking-my-picture face"

Matthaeus and Pratik bring our total number of employees up to 12! But we're still looking to hire at least 2 more people. Check out the job openings on our recently redesigned jobs page (thanks Matthaeus!).