Marcel von Lohuizen

Marcel von Lohuizen, Qlabs: CUE from Google & Building in Switzerland

Marcel von Lohuizen, CEO and co-founder of Qlabs, recounts creating the CUE configuration language as a 20% project at Google, where he helped build Borg, and later leaving to found a company building tooling around CUE — analogous to what GitHub is for Git. He discusses the ~$10M seed backed by Sequoia and OSS Capital, staying in stealth to stabilize the open source, and a 2026 focus on working with cloud providers, telecoms and banks to prevent outages as AI generates more configuration. They close with a look at the Swiss tech ecosystem and a pointer to cue.dev.

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