Team

The people behind your smart home.

Design needs minds, delivery needs hands — with us both come from the same house: smartfabrik plans and programmes, elektrofabrik installs. Here is the team that will carry your project.

20+people across two teams
Engineers & master electriciansin one team
KNX trainerswe teach the trade
100+projects delivered

Founders and management

Sebastian Strickling

Managing director · Head of Smart & Sales

The person across the table in your first conversation: Sebastian Strickling translates the way people live into functional concepts — from the first appointment through product selection to deciding what your home should actually be able to do. He is responsible for consultancy, sales and the partnerships with architects and interior studios.

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Sebastian Gehmlich

Managing director · Head of Smart & Engineering

The technical lead: Sebastian Gehmlich is responsible for engineering standards, KNX architecture and the quality of every design — from bus topology to the fully documented control cabinet. Projects delivered under his direction range from a Cologne manor house to a 1,200 m² villa in Riyadh.

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smartfabrik — design & engineering

Concept, KNX design, programming, project management

Martina Wilke

People & Organisation Manager

Sets up HR and organisation across both companies: brings people, processes and knowledge together and makes culture tangible in everyday work — our feel-good manager on the side.

Sebastian Stein

Engineering & design

Translates concepts into engineering: KNX topologies, room data sheets and distribution board schedules that any site can work cleanly from.

Lars Marquardt

Electrical engineering

A master electrician with real KNX depth — responsible for the quality of the work from installation through testing to acceptance.

Niklas Hansen

Electrical engineering

A master electrician with an eye for detail: tests, measures and only hands a system over when it is genuinely finished.

Anis Thaalbi

KNX programming

Configures in ETS what was designed: scenes, logic and visualisations, until the house feels right.

Vinh Khang Luu

KNX programming

Programmes and systematically tests KNX functions — every button, every sensor, every scene.

Lea Maladyn

Accounting & administration

Responsible for bookkeeping and administrative processes — so that everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

Muriel Jacob

Project coordination

Looks after product selection and client communication: you always know where your project stands.

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Alexander Mündler

Marketing & growth

Leads the marketing team and drives the reach and visibility of the smartfabrik brand.

Lara Graß

Marketing & performance

Responsible for campaign management and performance marketing — making smartfabrik visible to the outside world.

Chiara Nöthen

Marketing & creative

Gives smartfabrik its look and voice: design, social media and podcast — from the idea to the finished piece.

Kyan Petzold

Frontend Development

Develops digital tools and interfaces around projects and visualisation.

elektrofabrik — installation & commissioning

Our sister company puts the design on the wall — installed to master-craftsman standard
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Domenik Ferreira

Operations manager

Runs the elektrofabrik sites: crew, materials and scheduling across several projects at once — and makes sure material orders match the state of the build rather than the catalogue.

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Rukiye Düm

Operations management assistant

Supports operations management in day-to-day business — from coordination to organisation.

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Lara Korten

Operations management assistant

Supports operations management in day-to-day business — from coordination to organisation.

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Peter Lüdemann

Site manager

Runs projects on site from shell stage to handover: briefing the installers, checking against the construction drawings, documenting progress, and the acceptance at which every function is switched through once.

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Alexander Wulf

Site manager

Runs sites where several trades work at once: coordination with drylining, heating and fit-out so that conduits, back boxes and outlets sit where the design puts them — and so that deviations are noticed while they are still cheap to correct.

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Kilian Peter

Qualified electrician

Installs smart home technology the way it was designed: cleanly and to last.

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Samet Kara

Qualified electrician

Electrical installation from the distribution board to the last back box — including the cable routes for KNX, DALI and the network that nobody wants to open up later.

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Christian Böhnke

Qualified electrician

Builds distribution boards and installations to the drawings: conductors run, terminals labelled, test results documented. The work nobody sees in the finished house — unless it was done badly.

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Andreas Scharf

Apprentice

Our next generation — trained on genuine premium projects.

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Ismael Fandino

Apprentice

Learning the trade from the ground up in the elektrofabrik team.

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One team. Your project.

From the first conversation to handover you work with the same named people — no helpline, no changes.

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What we are working on

Twenty people, one building project after another.

With us design and installation sit in two companies but in one house. What one draws, the other builds — and both are at the table on the same project.

100+projects delivered, from town house to 1,200 m² villa in three countries.
KNX trainersWe train KNX integrators — which is why we take on systems others have given up on.
Engineers & master electriciansMaster electricians, technicians and engineers plan together — technology and design are not opposites.
Basalte Gold PartnerThe highest partner level, and still planned on a manufacturer-independent basis.

What comes of it you can see in our projects. What the route there looks like is set out under smart home design; the work in ETS we describe under KNX programming, and distribution board construction under control cabinet construction. Systems without a project file we take on through KNX reconstruction.